Dallas Stars hire Glen Gulutzan for second stint as head coach

Dallas Stars hire Glen Gulutzan for second stint as head coach

TheDallas Starsare turning to a name from their past to lead the team into the future. The Stars announced on Tuesday, July 1 that they have hired Glen Gulutzan as their next head coach. He was the Stars' coach during the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons and was fired after missing the playoffs in both seasons. But he most recently was anEdmonton Oilersassistant coach since 2018-19, running their highly successful power play that featured Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. The Oilers have reached the Stanley Cup Final the past two seasons, knocking off the Stars in the Western Conference both times. "Since his previous time in Dallas, Glen has worked tirelessly to establish himself as one of the most respected coaches in the NHL," general manager Jim Nill said. "His extensive NHL experience, both as a head coach and assistant coach, speaks to his ability to innovate and adapt to the modern game, as well as build relationships with his players. Glen has worked with some of the best players in the world and continually found ways to maximize their skill sets to contribute to team success. We have full confidence that he is the right person to elevate our team to the next level." Gulutzan, 53, replaces Peter DeBoer, who wasfired on June 6after the Stars' third consecutiveouster in the conference finals. DeBoer hadpulled No. 1 goalie Jake Oettingerin the elimination game after he gave up two goals and said it was because the"status quo had not been working."General manager Jim Nill said those comments were a component of his decision to fire DeBoer but not the only reason. Between Gulutzan's stints with the Stars and the Oilers, he was an assistant coach with theVancouver Canucksand head coach of theCalgary Flames. He has a 146-125-23 record as a head coach, with one playoff appearance in which the Flames were swept. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Dallas Stars name Glen Gulutzan head coach

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Dallas Stars hire Glen Gulutzan for second stint as head coach

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2025 NBA free agent tracker: Latest signings and deal details

2025 NBA free agent tracker: Latest signings and deal details

NBA free agencyis off to a fast start. Many of thetop free agentsare already off the board. Keep track of the most notable free agent moves below. Jakob Poeltl reportedly agrees to extension with RaptorsDeal: 4 years, $104 million Sandro Mamukelashvili reportedly agrees to deal with RaptorsDeal: 2 years, $5.5 million Jericho Sims reportedly agrees to re-sign with BucksDeal: 2 years, league minimum Dennis Schröder reportedly signing with KingsDeal: 3 years, $45 million Gary Harris reportedly agrees to deal with BucksDeal: 2 years, N/A Myles Turner reportedly agrees to deal with BucksDeal: 4 years, $107 million Guerschon Yabusele reportedly agrees to sign with KnicksDeal: 2 years, $12 million Shai Gilgeous-Alexander reportedly agrees to supermax extensionDeal: 4 years, $285 million Gary Trent Jr. reportedly agrees to return to BucksDeal: 2 years, $7.5 million Trendon Watford reportedly agrees to deal with 76ersDeal: 2 years, $5.3 million Taurean Prince reportedly agrees to return to BucksDeal: 2 years, $7.1 million Mason Plumlee reportedly signs deal with HornetsDeal: 1 year, $3.6 million Luke Kennard reportedly agrees to deal with HawksDeal: 1 year, $11 million Brook Lopez reportedly leaving Bucks for ClippersDeal: 2 years, $18 million Tyus Jones reportedly agrees to join MagicDeal: 1 year, $7 million Nickeil Alexander-Walker reportedly headed to Hawks in sign-and-tradeDeal: 4 years, $62 million Caris LeVert reportedly agrees to sign with PistonsDeal: 2 years, $29 million Luke Kornet reportedly agrees to deal with SpursDeal: 4 years, $41 million Clint Capela reportedly agrees to deal with RocketsDeal: 3 years, $21.5 million Ty Jerome reportedly agrees to deal with GrizzliesDeal: 3 years, $28 million Dorian Finney-Smith reportedly agrees to deal with RocketsDeal: 4 years, $53 million Kevin Porter Jr. reportedly re-signing with BucksDeal: 2 years, $11 million Bruce Brown Jr. reportedly reuniting with NuggetsDeal: 1 year, veteran's minimum Tre Jones reportedly returning to BullsDeal: 3 years, $24 million D'Angelo Russell reportedly agrees to join MavericksDeal: 2 years, $13 million Kevon Looney reportedly agrees to deal with PelicansDeal: 2 years, $16 million Cam Spencer reportedly agrees to deal with GrizzliesDeal: 2 years, $4.5 million Paul Reed reportedly will re-sign with PistonsDeal: 2 years, $11 million Jake LaRavia reportedly signing with LakersDeal: 2 years, $12 million Santi Aldama reportedly agrees to new deal with GrizzliesDeal: 3 years, $52.5 million Grizzlies, Jaren Jackson Jr. agree to 5-year, $240 million extensionDeal: 5 years, $240 million Rockets reportedly re-signing Jeff Green, Aaron HolidayDeals: 1 year, veteran's minimum Nicolas Batum reportedly returning to ClippersDeal: 2 years, $11.5 million Ziaire Williams reportedly returning to Nets on 2-year dealDeal: 2 years, $12 million Jabari Smith reportedly signing rookie extension with RocketsDeal: 5 years, $122 million James Harden declines option, reportedly re-signing with ClippersDeal: 2 years, $81.5 million Bobby Portis reportedly re-signing with BucksDeal: 3 years, $44 million Ajay Mitchell reportedly re-signing with ThunderDeal: 3 years, $9 million Julius Randle reportedly agrees to stay with TimberwolvesDeal: 3 years, $100 million Jaylin Williams reportedly agrees to extension with ThunderDeal: 3 years, $24 million Sam Merrill reportedly staying with CavaliersDeal: 4 years, $38 million Davion Mitchell reportedly re-signing with HeatDeal: 2 years, $24 million Naz Reid reportedly re-signing with TimberwolvesDeal: 5 years, $125 million

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2025 NBA free agent tracker: Latest signings and deal details

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Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites

Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites

WASHINGTON (AP) — Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world. Scientists said thepeer-reviewed authoritative reportssave money and lives. Websites for the national assessments and the U.S. Global Change Research Program were down Monday and Tuesday with no links, notes or referrals elsewhere. The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within NASA to comply with the law, but gave no further details. Searches for the assessments on NASA websites did not turn them up. NASA did not respond to requests for information. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which coordinated the information in the assessments, did not respond to repeated inquiries. "It's critical for decision makers across the country to know what the science in the National Climate Assessment is. That is the most reliable and well-reviewed source of information about climate that exists for the United States," said University of Arizona climate scientist Kathy Jacobs, who coordinated the 2014 version of the report. "It's a sad day for the United States if it is true that the National Climate Assessment is no longer available," Jacobs said. "This is evidence of serious tampering with the facts and with people's access to information, and it actually may increase the risk of people being harmed by climate-related impacts." Harvard climate scientist John Holdren, who was President Obama's science advisor and whose office directed the assessments, said after the 2014 edition he visited governors, mayors and other local officials who told him how useful the 841-page report was. It helped them decide whether to raise roads, build seawalls and even move hospital generators from basements to roofs, he said. "This is a government resource paid for by the taxpayer to provide the information that really is the primary source of information for any city, state or federal agency who's trying to prepare for the impacts of a changing climate," said Texas Tech climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, who has been a volunteer author for several editions of the report. Copies of past reports are still squirreled away inNOAA's library. NASA'sopen science data repositoryincludes dead links to the assessment site. The most recent report, issued in 2023, included an interactive atlas that zoomed down to the county level. It found that climate change is affecting people's security, health and livelihoods in every corner of the country in different ways, with minority and Native American communities oftendisproportionately at risk. The1990 Global Change Research Actrequires a national climate assessment every four years and directs the president to establish an interagency United States Global Change Research Program. In the spring, theTrumpadministration told the volunteer authors of the next climate assessment that their services weren't needed and ended the contract with the private firm that helps coordinate the website and report. Additionally, NOAA's main climate.gov website was recently forwarded to a different NOAA website. Social media and blogs at NOAA and NASA about climate impacts for the general public were cut or eliminated. "It's part of a horrifying big picture," Holdren said. "It's just an appalling whole demolition of science infrastructure." The national assessments are more useful than international climate reports put out by the United Nations every seven or so years because they are more localized and more detailed, Hayhoe and Jacobs said. The national reports are not only peer reviewed by other scientists, but examined for accuracy by the National Academy of Sciences, federal agencies, the staff and the public. Hiding the reports would be censoring science, Jacobs said. And it's dangerous for the country, Hayhoe said, comparing it to steering a car on a curving road by only looking through the rearview mirror: "And now, more than ever, we need to be looking ahead to do everything it takes to make it around that curve safely. It's like our windshield's being painted over." ___ Associated Press writer Will Weissert contributed to this report. ___ The Associated Press' climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP'sstandardsfor working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas atAP.org.

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Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites

Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites WASHINGTON (AP) — Legally mandated U.S. national climate ass...

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President Trump says he'll 'have to take a look' at deporting Elon Musk as feud reignites

President Trump says he'll 'have to take a look' at deporting Elon Musk as feud reignites

WASHINGTON ―President Donald Trumpsaid he would look at havingElon Muskdeported to his native South Africa astheir rift reignitedand reached new heights amid the billionaire tech entrepreneur's latest wave of criticism of Trump's tax and budget bill. Trump made the threat while speaking to reporters on July 1,hours after the president in an early morning post on Truth Socialsaid he might order the Department of Government Efficiency that Musk previously led to review the billions in contracts that his companies receive. "We'll have to take a look," Trump said when asked whether he will deport Musk. "We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn't that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies." Trump's attacks came after Musk, the world's richest man, resumed his vocal opposition to Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill" in a flurry of X posts on Mondaywhile the bill entereda fourth day of debate in the Senate. It included a warning from Musk that he would boost midterm primary challenges to defeat Republican lawmakers who vote for the legislation. "Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa," Trump wrote in a 12:34 a.m. July 1 post on Truth Social. "No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. "Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!" Musk responded to Trumpin a post on X about 30 minutes later. "I am literally saying CUT IT ALL. Now," he wrote. More:Elon Musk vows to defeat Republicans who vote for Donald Trump's mega bill Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and a former top White House adviser,has pointed to the bill's projectionsto raise the national debt by $3.3 trillion over the next decade as the reason for his hostility. But Trump has claimed Musk only opposes the bill because the legislation would end a program under former PresidentJoe Bidenthat offers consumer tax credit for buyers of electric vehicles. On his first day in office, Trump took executive action to end the so-called "electric vehicle mandate," Trump's phrase for aEnvironmental Protection Agency rulethat required auto manufacturers to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half in new light- and medium-duty vehicles beginning in 2027. "Elon Muskknew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate. It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one," Trump wrote in his social media post. "Elon is very upset that the EV mandate is going to be terminated," Trump later told reporters. More:Trump and Musk's bromance ends after personal attacks over criticism of tax bill Born in South Africa, Musk became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2002 after previously gaining Canadian citizenship through his mother.Musk obtained an exchange visaallowing him to study in the U.S. and later a work visa prior to becoming a citizen. The new war of words erupted just two weeks after Musk took steps to repair his strained relationship with the president ‒including personally apologizingfor insults he made during his combative exit from the Trump administration in June. For the first four-plus months of Trump's second term, Musk led the government-slashing DOGE, which worked to dramatically cut the size of the federal government by identifying "waste, fraud and abuse." Musk left his White House position in late May to focus on his business ventures. In another June 30 X post, Musk renewed a call he's floated for a new political party. "It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!" Musk said. "Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people." Trump hadpreviously threatened to end subsidiesthat go to Musk's companies on June 5 when his alliance with Musk imploded publicly in spectacular fashion. Musk's various companies have benefited from billions of dollars in U.S. government contracts over the past two decades, including SpaceX through its relationships with the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In all, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, aWashington Post analysis found. Reach Joey Garrison on X @joeygarrison. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Trump says he'll look at deporting Elon Musk as feud reignites

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President Trump says he'll 'have to take a look' at deporting Elon Musk as feud reignites

President Trump says he'll 'have to take a look' at deporting Elon Musk as feud reignites WASHINGTON ―President Donald Trumpsaid...

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Raptors C Jakob Poeltl reportedly agrees to $104M extension to remain in Toronto

Raptors C Jakob Poeltl reportedly agrees to $104M extension to remain in Toronto

Jakob Poeltl has agreed to a four-year, $104 million contract extension to remain with the Toronto Raptors,ESPN's Shams Charania reports. Poeltl will pick up his $19.5 million player option for 2026-27, then have three more years added to his contract, per the report. Poeltl, 29, has played two-plus seasons in his second stint with the Raptors since arriving via a midseason trade in 2022-23 from the San Antonio Spurs. Heagreed to a four-year, $80 million contractthe following offseason to remain in Toronto. In extending Poeltl, the Raptors retain a versatile center who makes them better on both ends of the floor. Poeltl doesn't shoot from distance or efficiently from the free-throw line, but he does almost everything else at a high level as an efficient scorer, rebounder, playmaker and defender in the post. In 57 games last season, Poeltl averaged 14.5 points, 9.6 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.2 blocks per game while shooting 62.7% from the field. The Raptors extend Poeltl as they seek to turn the page on their ongoing rebuild. Toronto hasn't made the playoffs since 2022 and has posted losing campaigns in each of the last two seasons, including a 30-52 effort in 2024-25. The Raptors boast an emerging NBA star in Scottie Barnes and added former All-Star wing Brandon Ingram at the trade deadline to a young core that also features RJ Barrett. With the No. 9 pick in last week's draft, they selected South Carolina wing Collin Murray-Boyles, whohas high upside as an NBA defender.Ingram didn't play for the Raptors after the trade as he continued to recover from an ankle injury. In a weakened East in which the Celtics, Pacers and Bucks project to take a step back amid injuries and roster transition, there's opportunity for the Raptors next season to turn the corner.

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Raptors C Jakob Poeltl reportedly agrees to $104M extension to remain in Toronto

Raptors C Jakob Poeltl reportedly agrees to $104M extension to remain in Toronto Jakob Poeltl has agreed to a four-year, $104 million contra...

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