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Starting pitchers Jon Lester and Patrick Corbin, closer Brad Hand and four position players expected in the lineup have been put on the 10-day injured list by the Washington Nationals. Left fielder Kyle Schwarber, first baseman Josh Bell, second baseman Josh Harrison and catcher Yan Gomes are on the IL, as are backups Alex Avila and Jordy Mercer. The moves all came Tuesday before Washington plays its first game of the season at home against the Atlanta Braves. The Nationals’ first four games on the schedule were postponed because of a coronavirus outbreak within the team.

In addition to its trading cards, fans will soon be able to trade company shares of Topps. The company said Tuesday that it will become a publicly traded company this year by tying up with a blank-check company. Topps, for anyone who has not opened the shoebox of trading cards in the attic in a while, has greatly expanded from its Bazooka gum days and is pushing into digital sales, apps, crypto currency and even NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. Its subject matter has expanded to, among other things, comics, professional wrestling, Formula 1, and film (Godzilla NFTs now on sale!). Shares will be available on Nasdaq later this year, listed under the ticker symbol “TOPP". 

Authorities have identified six people found dead in a suburban Dallas home in what police say was an apparent murder-suicide plot. The Allen Police Department says investigators believe 21-year-old Tanvir Towhid and 19-year-old Farhan Towhid made a pact to kill their parents, sister and grandmother before killing themselves. The bodies were found early Monday by officers performing a welfare check. The victims were identified as 77-year-old Altafun Nessa, 56-year-old Iren Islam, 54-year-old Towhidul Islam and 19-year-old Farbin Towhid. A neighbor says Nessa lived in Bangladesh but was visiting her family when she was killed.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The pace of job openings reached the highest level on record in February, a harbinger of healthy hiring and a hopeful sign for those looking for work. The job openings rate — which is the number of…

NEW YORK (AP) — The CEOs of Starbucks and Goldman Sachs will join leaders from philanthropy and academia in a new initiative to address the racial wealth gap in the United States. The initiative is called NinetyToZero, so named for…

Fred Couples was playing a practice round at Augusta National this week, with the other members of his foursome all sharing a few things in common. None of them was even half his age. They all bombed their tee shots past his. And they listened to every piece of advice he had. Among the many perks that come with winning the Masters is this: Champions are invited back for life, and that means it isn’t uncommon to see players compete into their 60s and even 70s at Augusta National. There are 12 players in this year’s Masters field who wouldn’t have otherwise qualified had it not been for that lifetime pass they got for winning years ago.

United Airlines says it will train 5,000 pilots at its own academy in this decade, and it hopes that half of them will be women or people of color. United said Tuesday it is now taking applications for the academy in Arizona, including from people who have no flying experience. United was threatening to furlough pilots and other employees until recently because of the sharp downturn in travel during the pandemic. Now travel is coming back — although it still hasn’t returned to 2019 levels — and United plans to hire pilots this year, and more in the long run. Replacements will be be needed for thousands of U.S. airline pilots approaching the mandatory retirement age of 65.

James McBride’s latest honor for the novel “Deacon King Kong” is a real New York story. McBride’s fictional snapshot of a Brooklyn neighborhood in the late 1969 has won the inaugural Gotham Book Prize, given for outstanding writing about New York City. This year, McBride has also won the Anisfield-Wolf fiction award for a book that addresses racism and diversity and a Carnegie Medal for fiction that is presented by the American Library Association. McBride will receive $50,000 for the Gotham prize, for which judges ranged from filmmaker Ric Burns to former New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott.

The Education Department on Tuesday moved forward with plans to revise federal rules around campus sexual assault, paving the way for an overhaul of a polarizing Trump-era policy that President Joe Biden has vowed to reverse. In a letter to…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has approved $4.7 billion in state aid for national carrier Air France as it struggles through the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, a decision the French government welcomed as “good news.” In return…

HELSINKI (AP) — An unmanned Dutch cargo ship may be in danger of capsizing in heavy seas off the coast of Norway after its crew was evacuated following a distress call from the vessel. The Norwegian Coastal Administration said Tuesday…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a coronavirus pandemic-fueled mortgage boom, states will get nearly $700 million in federal grants from a special program for low-income housing, more than double the amount distributed last year. It’s a boost that the Department…

Tokyo Olympic organizers have postponed a water polo test event set for this weekend. Organizers say the test event might be rescheduled for May or June. Reports say technical officials were unable to go to Japan because of strict procedures to enter the country. Organizers did not confirm that but say it was necessary to postpone “considering the schedule of each stakeholder under the current global COVID-19 conditions.” The news comes less than four months before the opening of the postponed Olympics and could be a setback as organizers and the IOC attempts to hold the Tokyo Games in the middle of a pandemic.