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The Minnesota Wild signed star left wing Kirill Kaprizov to an eight-year, $136 million extension on Tuesday, giving him the richest contract in NHL history.The 28-year-old Kaprizov will count $17 million against the salary cap beginning next season, through 2034. That’s the highest annual average salary of any player since the league’s cap era began in 2005, surpassing Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl at $112 million over eight years, a $14 million annual average. Alex Ovechkin’s 13-year, $124 million contract signed with Washington in 2008 was previously the highest total value.“We never wanted to entertain Kirill not being here,” general manager Bill…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lawyers for the Des Moines public schools leader detained by immigration authorities have asked an immigration court to put deportation proceedings on hold.Attorney Alfredo Parrish said his law firm filed the request for stay with the federal immigration court in Omaha on behalf of Superintendent Ian Roberts. Parrish did not elaborate on the filing, which was made under seal, but said his law firm planned a news conference later Tuesday.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Roberts last week, saying the native of Guyana was living and working in the country illegally. A state board…

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Rory McIlroy didn’t get it quite right when he said winning the Ryder Cup on the road was one of the greatest accomplishments in golf. He left out “for the Americans.”McIlroy offered this observation a month before the 2023 matches in Rome, and it made perfect sense. The Americans had gone 30 years since last winning the Ryder Cup on European soil. Does anyone think it will be any easier two years from now in Ireland?Yes, it had been since 2012 that Europe won away from home. But that’s only two road losses. One was at…

Over the last 12 months, at least 10 executives have exited Tesla, including some of CEO Elon Musk’s most loyal lieutenants — from “Musk whisperer” Omead Afshar to longtime sales chief Troy Jones.To track who remains at the top of the electric-car company, Business Insider reviewed the upper ranks of the company’s internal organizational chart.As of August, Musk — who is listed on the org chart as “CEO and Technoking” — had 19 direct reports, compared with 35 before a round of layoffs in 2024 and 30 in late 2021. He has maintained nine of the same direct reports over…

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball’s economic disparity will be on display in the playoffs, where the Los Angeles Dodgers have committed more than $500 million in salaries and luxury tax this season as they take on a Cincinnati Reds team with a $121 million payroll.Six of the 12 postseason teams have payrolls of $200 million or more, with the Boston Red Sox about $500,000 short of the mark. The World Series champion Dodgers overtook the New York Mets with in-season moves that boosted their payroll to $341.5 million, according to Major League Baseball’s latest tabulation.Despite deferring over $1 billion in…

Not long after California surgeon Andrew S. Hsu landed a job with a cosmetic surgery chain in Georgia, several of his patients alleged they suffered disfiguring injuries, and even his new employer allegedly had doubts about his competence, court records show.Hsu, a board-certified general surgeon, was one of six out-of-state doctors who joined the Atlanta Goals Aesthetics & Plastic Surgery center during the pandemic. The surgeons received temporary licenses to practice in Georgia, which state officials granted in response to the sudden need for more medical personnel to address the Covid outbreak — even though the center specialized in elective…

Office workers everywhere are awash in “workslop.” This is the term researchers are using to call AI-generated content that might look like it completes a task at work: pretty on paper, well-organized and neatly formatted, but lacks substance upon a closer read — and it often becomes a headache for the person receiving the work.The term was coined in research published this month from the Stanford Social Media Lab and BetterUp, a professional training and coaching company. Surveying 1,150 desk workers in the US, the researchers found that 40% of respondents said they believed they had received this sort of…

Browser maker Opera launched its AI-centric browser Neon Tuesday, with the ability to create apps through AI prompts and create repeatable prompts through a feature it calls cards. With this Opera joins a growing number of companies like Perplexity and The Browser Company that are trying to make agentic browsers happen. The company first announced that it was working on Neon in May, but the browser was in closed preview. It will now start sending invites to select people, who can use the browser for a fee of $19.99 per month. “We built Opera Neon for ourselves – and for…

A $14 billion deal secured TikTok’s American future — and analysts say it marks a unique compromise in Washington and Beijing’s ongoing tech fight.President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday requiring TikTok’s current owner, ByteDance, and its affiliates to own less than 20% of the new company.The exact make-up of the new consortium has not yet been revealed. Trump said on Thursday that Oracle and Larry Ellison would be part of the deal, which would include “four or five world-class investors.”Analysts told Business Insider that while the deal shows it’s still possible for the two rivals to bargain,…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A new lawsuit against Brown University has renewed questions surrounding the secrecy afforded many law enforcement officers employed by private colleges and universities across the U.S.Unlike public campuses, private higher education institutions are largely exempt from disclosing arrest records, incident reports and other documents even as they employ officers who have the authority to detain students, as well as, in some cases, use force. This lack of transparency has long raised objections from watchdog groups and open government advocates who say such records are critical to holding law enforcement accountable.In a recently filed legal challenge, the…