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More strikes
against Iran
CAIRO (AP) -- The U.S. military announced Thursday that they are conducting their 13th night of strikes against Iran as clashes escalate over shipping routes.
U.S. Central Command once again said the strikes are designed to “further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting regional waters” as the U.S. pushes to regain control over the Strait of Hormuz and restore the flow of international shipping.
Oil prices
go higher
NEW YORK (AP) -- Brent oil shot to its highest price since May after increased fighting in the Middle East threatened to slow the global flow of crude. Sharp drops for Alphabet and Tesla, meanwhile, yanked the U.S. stock market on Thursday to its worst loss in a month.
The S&P 500 sank 1.2%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1% and the Nasdaq composite fell 2.2%.
Brent oil's price jumped as high as $102 per barrel during the day, up from $72 early this month. That threatens to worsen inflation, and Treasury yields climbed.
Boelter
sentenced
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Minnesota man who killed Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Vance Boelter was sentenced Thursday after survivors of the attack and family and friends of the victims spoke about the enduring trauma of that night and the loss. Boelter pleaded guilty last month in the June 2025 fatal shooting of the former house speaker and her husband, Mark.
The 59-year-old also pleaded guilty to attacking Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. Boelter avoids the death penalty with his plea.
New outbreak
investigated
(AP) -- U.S. health officials are investigating a new outbreak involving the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora. The outbreak included 72 people as of Wednesday.
The Food and Drug Administration has not yet identified which products are linked to the illnesses. Officials also have not said where the cases are located.
The FDA earlier this week said it remained focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as the source of a separate, multistate cyclospora outbreak. The parasite infects food that has come into contact with human feces, most commonly when produce is irrigated or washed with contaminated water.
Bertha again
makes landfall
(AP) -- Tropical Storm Bertha has made a second landfall near the Texas-Louisiana state line, ending its slow crawl across the U.S. Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center said Bertha should weaken rapidly over land after its center comes onshore about 75 miles northeast of Galveston, Texas.
Cloudy skies associated with the storm caused SpaceX to cancel a rocket launch Thursday in south Texas. No deaths or significant damage have been reported since Bertha formed Monday in the Gulf of Mexico.
The storm made landfall for the first time Wednesday as it grazed the Louisiana coast.