Keith Tkachuk waited more than a decade and a half from the end of his NHL playing career to get the call from the Hockey Hall of Fame. Not known for his patience, Tkachuk was so overcome with emotion that he waited 45 minutes to tell his family.
“I said, ‘Hey, you guys want to have a beer together?’” Tkachuk recalled. “And I told them and broke the news to them there.”
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FILE - New Calgary Flames President of Hockey Operations Brian Burke listens to a question during a news conference in Calgary, Alberta, Sept. 5, 2013. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
FILE - Cindy Curley addresses the media before her induction into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in Detroit, Dec. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
FILE - Boston Bruins' Patrice Bergeron plays against the Tampa Bay Lightning during the second period of an NHL hockey game, March 25, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
FILE - St. Louis Blues' Keith Tkachuk skates during the first period of an NHL hockey against the Anaheim Ducks game, April 9, 2010, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
The timing gave them even more reason to celebrate. Tkachuk was elected to the Hall of Fame on Monday, less than 24 hours after his sons became teammates when Brady was traded from Ottawa to Florida, joining older brother Matthew, during a weekend that also included a U.S. Olympic gold medal celebration and a baptism.
“It's been a great weekend for the Tkachuks,” Keith said. “It’s been a crazy weekend, but this tops it off. ... This is the ultimate, for sure.”
The patriarch nicknamed “Walt” Tkachuk is part of a player class that includes center Patrice Bergeron, who won the Stanley Cup with Boston in 2011 and the Selke Trophy as the league's top defensive forward six times, and goaltenders Carey Price from Montreal and Pekka Rinne from Nashville.
U.S. women’s hockey pioneer Cindy Curley and executive Brian Burke in the builder category also are set to be inducted on Nov. 9 at a ceremony in Toronto.
Tkachuk was one of the premier power forwards of his era, playing in the 1990s and 2000s as part of the first great generation of American pro players. He recorded 1,121 points in 1,290 games, counting the playoffs, with Winnipeg, Phoenix, St. Louis and Atlanta, and was part of the U.S. team that won the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
Bergeron, who spent his entire career with the Bruins, was chosen in his first year of eligibility. Price and Rinne were selected in their second, with Henrik Zetterberg and Rod Brind'Amour among those passed over again.
“You knew what you were going to get every single time you played against him: You had to dig in,” Tkachuk said of Brind'Amour, fresh off coaching Carolina to the Stanley Cup two decades after captaining the Hurricanes to a championship. “Hats off to him. He’ll be here, there’s no doubt in my mind, as a player and as a builder.”
Price and Bergeron played together on Canada's 2014 Olympic gold medal-winning team. That was during Price's prime, which included winning the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP, Vezina as top goalie and the Lester B. Pearson as the most outstanding player as voted by his peers following a dominant 2014-15 season with the Canadiens.
“During Carey's heyday, every goalie wanted to play like him,” said Rinne, who is the first player to make the Hall of Fame after spending his entire career with the Predators and is ranked in the top 25 in wins, save percentage and shutouts in league history.
Curley skated in the first International Ice Hockey Federation Women's World Championship in 1990. Her 11 goals, 12 assists and 23 points in five games remain single-tournament records, and she'll be the 15th women's player to go in the Hall at a peak of the sport with the PWHL thriving.
“When I was playing, I was I hopeful I could play on a girls team at some point,” Curley said. “Seeing it progress to Olympics and now the professional (level) and seeing how great the players are, it’s just wonderful.”
Burke won the Stanley Cup as Anaheim's general manager in 2007, one of several front-office stops for him, along with time spent as the NHL's director of hockey operations. Burke also took on a leading role in hockey's Pride efforts and was a longtime advocate of the women's game, including a stint as executive director of the PWHL Players Association.
“They’re on the same level for me,” Burke said of the Cup and his off-ice advocacy. “That was just as important as anything else I’ve ever worked on.”
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FILE - New Calgary Flames President of Hockey Operations Brian Burke listens to a question during a news conference in Calgary, Alberta, Sept. 5, 2013. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
FILE - Cindy Curley addresses the media before her induction into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in Detroit, Dec. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
FILE - Boston Bruins' Patrice Bergeron plays against the Tampa Bay Lightning during the second period of an NHL hockey game, March 25, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
FILE - St. Louis Blues' Keith Tkachuk skates during the first period of an NHL hockey against the Anaheim Ducks game, April 9, 2010, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
Vice President JD Vance said Monday peace talks with Iran created a “good foundation for a successful final deal” to end the war that began at the end of February.
Vance’s comments came after he and Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf wrapped up a lengthy round of initial talks aimed at solidifying a permanent end to the war between the countries.
Also, President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, insisting she asked “over and over” for a photo with him at the recent Group of Seven summit and criticizing what he said was Italy’s lack of cooperation during the Iran war. The remarks deepen the spat that began this week, which ultimately led Italy’s foreign minister to cancel a planned trip to the United States.
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The lead negotiator of the Iranian delegation, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, insisted on Monday the Strait of Hormuz will be managed by Iran and would follow international laws.
Qalibaf, who is also the speaker of the parliament, spoke with Iran state media on a plane on his way back from Switzerland.
“Hopefully we can activate the strait again, in terms of passage, and bring prosperity back to regional and global economy” he said.
Qalibaf confirmed that the issue of releasing the frozen assets as well as the sale of Iranian oil were discussed in the talks with the U.S.
When Trump proclaimed that there was “a lot of oil pouring out” of the strait, Energy Secretary Chris Wright suggested that oil and natural gas were flowing through at “pre-crisis levels.”
“We could get to above that, we will get above that,” Wright added. Trump then suggested that “two days ago” there had been a record in terms of oil being taken out of the strait.
Neither of those statements were true.
According to data and analytics firm Kpler, there were 71 confirmed transits over the weekend, with a peak of 35 crossings on Saturday.
About 100 to 130 vessels passed through the strait each day before the war.
The president backed the conservative political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, who is nicknamed “The Tiger” and held a narrow lead Monday in Colombia’s polarized presidential runoff.
Trump repeatedly referred to him as “El Tigre” on Monday and said that he’d said nice things about him and the U.S. in their phone call.
“You know, when people like me, I like them. It’s very simple,” Trump said.
The president continued to blame vandalism for the problems that have plagued his costly renovation of Washington’s Reflective Pool — suggesting that someone cut a slit measuring up to 300-feet in the body of water near the Lincoln Memorial.
Trump said whoever did it perhaps used a box cutter or “knife of some kind” to carve a long slit in the newly renovated pool.
“It’s not a lot of damage,” Trump said before adding “We’ll probably have to let the water out and fix it.”
Asked if he could release photographs of such damage since visitors to the area had trouble finding it, Trump suggested they’d be released in future court cases.
When reporters wondered how such extensive damage was possible given the heavy police presence by the Reflector Pool, Trump said authorities were dispatched after vandalism began.
A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration’s election integrity strategy is unlawful and can no longer be used.
U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan sided with advocacy groups that argued the recent upgrades to the program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, aggregated Americans’ sensitive personal data in a way that could result in voters being wrongly purged from voter rolls.
“All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,” Sooknanan said in an order explaining the decision. “This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.”
The decision is a major legal setback for President Donald Trump in his efforts to use federal agencies to encourage a nationwide crackdown on noncitizens illegally on state voter rolls.
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During an executive order signing on quantum computing in the Oval Office, Energy Secretary Chris Wright was attempting to make a point about Albert Einstein but struggled with the historical dates.
“Nobody cares,” Trump finally said to laughs.
“Good point! Good Point!” Wright exclaimed.
But the president wasn’t finished. He suggested that if facts weren’t exactly correct, “Usually they won’t catch you.”
When Wright finally continued, he offered an anecdote attempting to tie Eistein’s work to that of Trump’s uncle, John G. Trump, who was an MIT professor who died in 1985.
Trump later asked one of the experts assembled to discuss his executive orders, “Did you know my uncle,” drawing an awkward, “No.”
The president raised one of his longstanding grievances with energy policy and the U.K. in particular when asked about the British Prime Minster Keir Starmer: the use of wind turbine for power.
He said that he conveyed to Starmer, “You’re really messing up energy. You have windmills all over the place.”
Trump also cited British immigration policies as a weakness of Starmer’s.
But he called Starmer a “lovely man” and “sort of a friend of mine.” He said he wishes him well.
One of the orders President Donald Trump is signing Monday calls for developing by 2028 the “first-ever quantum computer powerful enough for scientific research,” said Michael Kratsios, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The second order seeks to bolster the nation’s cybersecurity, anticipating a time when such powerful computers will be able to break the best encryption.
Trump’s directives mark the latest attempts to tap into the strange behavior of subatomic particles to build machines that could perform calculations at far higher speeds than conventional supercomputers.
Building commercially viable quantum computers has long proved difficult.
The U.S. is already more than seven years into a 10-year quantum initiative passed by Congress and signed into law by Trump in 2018.
Shortly before leaving office, President Joe Biden also signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to improve cybersecurity to protect against the threat posed by quantum computers.
“We left a lot of our team. The Iranians left a lot of their team at the resort there to keep on working at it,” Vance told reporters just before he got on Air Force Two for the return flight to the U.S.
Vance did not give details on which U.S. negotiators are staying in Switzerland to continue to work out details of the interim agreement with Iran.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday welcomed the agreement reached between Iran and the United States during a telephone call with his Iranian counterpart and pledged Turkey’s continued support for the process to conclude peacefully.
A statement from the Turkish president’s office said that during his conversation with Masoud Pezeshkian, Erdogan also urged vigilance “against those who want to sabotage the negotiations” — in an apparent reference to Israel.
Turkish officials have constantly accused Israel of wanting to derail the negotiations.
Tilak Pokharel, a spokesperson for the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon known as UNIFIL, said Monday evening that a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah appears to be holding.
“We have not detected trajectories from either side since yesterday,” he said. “We have also not seen airstrikes,” although he added that peacekeepers “continue to observe air(space) violations and IDF ground movements.”
An Associated Press photographer in the area of Nabatiyeh, which saw intense strikes and fighting in the days before the new truce took hold over the weekend, described complete calm in the area Monday. Few displaced people had returned to the heavily damaged city of Nabatiyeh, he said, but many entered surrounding villages as soon as bulldozers finished clearing the roads.
According to data and analytics firm Kpler, there were 71 confirmed transits over the weekend, with a peak of 35 crossings Saturday. About 100 to 130 vessels passed through the strait each day before the war.
The main central route of the Strait of Hormuz is still mined and is closed. But ships have been passing through the smaller northern route, which goes through Iranian waters, and the southern route, which goes through Omani waters.
The S&P 500 slipped 0.3%, coming off its 11th winning week in the last 12, and pulled 1.7% below its all-time high set early this month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 131 points, or 0.3%, as of 10:45 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1% lower.
In the oil market, prices eased following talks over the weekend between the United States and Iran on their war. Vice President JD Vance said they created a “good foundation for a successful final deal.”
The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil fell 2.8% to $78.29, closer to its roughly $70 price from before the war. Benchmark U.S. crude oil fell 2.3% to $74.14 per barrel.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain this week as the Trump administration has stepped up efforts to end the war with Iran while Gulf countries remain uneasy about a proposed deal.
The State Department announced Monday that Rubio would visit the three countries for bilateral meetings with leaders to discuss the memorandum of understanding reached last week between the U.S. and Iran, weekend talks in Switzerland between senior Iranian and U.S. officials as well as security for American allies and partners in the Middle East, including the status of the Strait of Hormuz.
Rubio will discuss “regional priorities,” “efforts to secure full and free safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz, and the importance of peace and stability in the region,” the department said in a statement.
While in Bahrain, Rubio will also meet with Gulf Cooperation Council officials “to discuss shared priorities.”
The license authorizes the production, delivery and sale of Iranian oil. It will last through Aug. 21.
The license emerged Monday as U.S. Vice President JD Vance said his lengthy talks with senior Iranian officials in Switzerland created a “good foundation for a successful final deal.” Negotiators are seeking a permanent end to the war the U.S. and Israel began in late February.
The talks were jolted by statements from Trump, who, from thousands of miles away, fired off comments that offended the Iranians.
Iranian state media said talks had paused after the “publication of an insulting message by the U.S. President.” The negotiations later continued.
Vance pushed back against the notion that Trump’s threats complicated the talks.
“No, they didn’t throw a wrench in the system,” Vance said. He added, “Yes, they did threaten to walk out, or at least there were social media threats that they would walk out. But we were negotiating well past one in the morning yesterday, so they didn’t walk out.”
Vance also said the U.S. was not imposing the deal on the region, even though the negotiations include provisions about the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, without representatives from Israel or Lebanon.
“This is a deal that the region has desperately asked the United States to put in place,” Vance said. “This region has been a basket case for a very long time.”
Vance touted that Iran had agreed to invite International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors back into the country. However, Iran did not acknowledge that and it was not immediately clear how big a shift that would be.
Since the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in 2025, inspectors have visited the Islamic Republic.
However, Tehran has refused inspectors access to the enrichment sites in the country bombed by the U.S., where Iran’s highly enriched uranium is believed to be buried.
Vance said that he was returning to Washington, but he said that talks would continue between the American and Iranian “technical teams.”
“We wanted to set up a structure for that so that you could have proper political oversight, but obviously, as much as this place is very beautiful, I can’t stay here for the next 60 days,” Vance told reporters.
The vice president said that the negotiating teams would have the proper oversight in DC as they waded into an array of issues including how to monitor and address the nuclear material in Iran.
Vance said negotiators had been in constant contact with Netanyahu as well as other countries in the region throughout the negotiations in Switzerland. Some hard-liners in Israel’s government have criticized Netanyahu for being sidelined in the negotiations.
Vance said Monday that the U.S. and Iran have made progress on four key points in initial negotiations in Switzerland, listing them as:
Establishing a mechanism for keeping the Strait of Hormuz open
Coordination for the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon
An agreement on IAEA inspection
A process for the technical negotiations that remain
The vice president said that Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Trump and one of the lead U.S. negotiators, came up with the idea with officials from Qatar.
Vance said that Qatar would have approval over the process, but Iranian money that would be accessible as sanctions were lifted “would actually go to buy American soy, American corn and American wheat for the benefit of the Iranian people.”
Iran has not acknowledged this measure and does not currently have demand for U.S. crops.
Vance said that Iranian negotiators “did threaten to walk out” on peace talks, as he defended social media posts by Trump that criticized Iran.
“What we told the Iranians yesterday is when you guys engage in what us millennials might call ‘trash talk,’ you can’t expect the president of the United States not to respond and not to correct the record,” Vance said.
Vance noted that Iran’s team continued to negotiate and did not leave the talks, adding that the country’s team of technical experts had stayed in Switzerland.
“So, yes, there was a little bit of threatening, there was a little bit of whining,” Vance said. “But at the end of the day, the talks continued and we made great progress.”
Vice President JD Vance said that peace talks with Iran had created a “good foundation for a successful final deal” to end the war that began at the end of February.
“The final deal is the house,” Vance told reporters. “We set the foundation. We haven’t built the house, but we’ve laid a successful foundation to get to a good place for the American people.”
The vice president noted that Iran’s team did threaten to walk out of the talks, but he defended social media posts by Trump that had caused Iranian officials to feel offended.
“What we told the Iranians yesterday is when you guys engage in what us millennials might call ‘trash talk,’ you can’t expect the president of the United States not to respond and not to correct the record,” Vance said.
President Donald Trump sits in his limousine, known as The Beast, after arriving on Marine One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, June 21, 2026, following a trip to Camp David. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Vice President JD Vance speaks to members of the media after the U.S. and Iran held high-level talks at the Bürgenstock Resort in Obbuergen, near Lucerne, in Switzerland, Monday, June 22, 2026. (Nathan Howard/Pool Photo via AP)
President Donald Trump waves as he arrives on Marine One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, June 21, 2026, following a trip to Camp David. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
