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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks ticked higher Friday after Wall Street showed its appetite is still big for winners of the artificial-intelligence boom. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% and was on track to close out its fourth winning week in the last five. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 190 points, or 0.4%, with a little less than an hour remaining in trading, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% higher. SK Hynix.

NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys for the family of a Mississippi 18-year-old who was found dead after a July 4 boat trip with friends to an island off the Gulf Coast called for a deeper investigation and greater transparency at a news conference Friday with the Rev.

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Lawyers for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk redoubled their efforts Friday to raise doubts about DNA evidence that authorities said links Tyler Robinson to the suspected murder weapon. A Utah judge is deciding whether prosecutors have enough evidence to put Robinson on trial on a charge of aggravated murder. Kirk, 31, was killed as he spoke to a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — No one claimed responsibility Friday for airstrikes that hit Iran after the U.S. said it finished its attacks, leaving questions about who else may be targeting the Islamic Republic. The strikes Thursday, just as Iran prepared to bury the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hit areas across southern Iran.

The Trump administration warned Idaho’s top election official that local and state election officials could be criminally prosecuted if they don’t stop noncitizens from voting in the federal 2026 midterm elections. The letter — which is similar to ones that the U.S. Justice Department sent to all 50 states this week — raises the stakes of the Trump administration’s push to eradicate noncitizen voting, a crime that several experts say is rare, including in Idaho.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Students abducted in May by Muslim militants in Nigeria's southwestern Oyo state have been rescued, the government said Friday. Government spokesman Bayo Onanuga did not specify the total number of students rescued, but authorities said at the time of the abductions on May 15 that more than 40 people had been abducted. One of the teachers abducted alongside the students was killed shortly afterward.

by | July 10, 2026 4:00 AM There are four recommended steps for you to take after a fall accident: get to safety, seek medical care, document the scene, and report to authorities. These immediate actions protect your well-being and any claims you may bring. Your speed matters because hazards and injuries can go away within hours. Several people are sent to the hospital because of falls countrywide.

MISSOULA, Mont. — Dane Perkl doubled and tripled and drove in five runs, and the Northern Lakes Mountaineers class A team built a big lead before holding on to beat the Lethbridge (Alberta) Lakers A 18U 13-10 to open play Thursday at the Missoula Mavericks tournament at Lindborg-Cregg Field. Perkl hit a two-run double in a six-run second inning for Northern Lakes (18-5), and added a three-run triple in a four-run fifth.

Sitting atop a bright red construction crane, eight stories in the sky, were three firefighters lowering an empty rescue basket down to the ground Thursday as the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department conducted crane rescue training. Fire Marshall Craig Etherton called crane rescues “low frequency, high risk” operations. “These are things that don’t happen very often,” he said.

About a million kokanee fingerlings raised from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game’s first “captive broodstock” were released into Idaho’s lakes and reservoirs in June, including Hayden Lake and Lower Twin Lake, the agency announced Thursday. Many of those fish will reach catchable size within two or three years. The new “captive broodstock” program started as an idea from fisheries staff to help stabilize the number of fingerlings stocked annually, according to Fish and Game.