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Deadly wildfires, a high-profile domestic terrorism case, and another unexpected test for autonomous vehicles lead today's headlines. We'll also cover fresh market moves, the latest developments in the Middle East, and the stories worth knowing before your day gets going.

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A wildfire sweeping southern Spain has killed at least 11 people and left 19 more missing near the Almería town of Los Gallardos, with regional president Juanma Moreno warning the toll could climb sharply. Among the feared dead are four British nationals discovered trapped in a right-hand-drive car as they tried to flee.

Investigators believe a downed power line ignited the blaze during a heatwave pushing temperatures toward 40C, and firefighters worked through the night to evacuate roughly 1,000 residents. Andalusian authorities are already calling it the most devastating wildfire the region has ever recorded.

A federal grand jury indicted eight men on murder and terrorism-conspiracy charges for their alleged roles in a thwarted drone-and-sniper attack on the UFC cage-fighting card the White House hosted in June. Indictments were unsealed together and detail a plot investigators say was intercepted at multiple stages.

Court filings describe a mix of surveillance work, drone-hardware sourcing, and attempted rifle acquisitions traced back over the last four months. Defense attorneys said the men will plead not guilty at their next appearance, and the FBI's counterterrorism division confirmed it retained the lead on the case rather than handing off to state prosecutors.

When the US brokered a ceasefire last year, Israel controlled about half of Gaza, and Israeli forces have since pushed deeper, with Palestinians paying a rising deadly price. Advance has extended into corridors the original ceasefire framework designated for the return of displaced civilians.

White House confirmed it is aware of the expansion and has not yet publicly rebuked the Israeli government. Hostage-family advocacy groups and Gulf mediators have both pressed the Trump administration to draw a public line before the ceasefire's second-anniversary review this fall.

The Bayeux Tapestry arrived in Britain overnight in a tightly guarded operation, its first Channel crossing in more than 900 years. Crowds will see the nearly 70-meter depiction of the Norman Conquest from September, part of a landmark Anglo-French loan struck during President Macron's state visit last year.

A lawsuit is pressuring the Port of Rotterdam to move faster on cutting its dependence on fossil-fuel firms, in a case with implications for other European industrial hubs. Rotterdam handles fuel volumes larger than any other single port in Europe, and lawyers argue that current transition plans do not meet the standards set by recent climate rulings.

Australian pianist Jayson Gillham lost his workplace-discrimination case against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, which had canceled one of his shows after his onstage remarks about Gaza. Case has become a reference point for the growing tension between artistic speech and institutional bookings across the arts world.

President Trump branded communism the "biggest threat" America has faced, reviving his 2024 attack line as he returned from the NATO summit in Ankara. Democratic-socialist primary wins in New York and Colorado have handed him a fresh target, even as economic anxiety pushes some voters toward a bigger safety net.

A Mexican man shot dead by ICE in Houston was not the intended target of the operation, according to a lawmaker briefed on the case. Lorenzo Salgado's death has intensified scrutiny of increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement and the tactics agents used in the field.

Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of the parasitic infection cyclospora, with nearly 1,000 people diagnosed as of Wednesday and cases spilling into Ohio. Federal and state investigators are tracing a suspected produce link, and no deaths have been reported.

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Home sales dropped in June month over month as mortgage rates stayed stubbornly high, while prices hit an all-time high. The combination reflects the ongoing lock-in effect for owners with pandemic-era mortgages and continued undersupply in mid-tier metros.

Asian markets climbed on Friday as a wave of tech buying extended a Wall Street rally, with South Korea's Kospi jumping about 2.5% and SoftBank surging in Tokyo. Oil slipped and US futures were mixed as investors bet the AI chip boom can outrun the geopolitical noise.

Goldman Sachs' asset-management arm won retirement-plan mandates from Verizon and Lockheed Martin, deepening its push into a multitrillion-dollar market it competes for against BlackRock, Russell Investments, and Mercer. Deals cover pension-risk transfer and defined-contribution investment services.

New plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk's SpaceXAI and Stability AI say the companies' image-generation tools were used to make sexually explicit deepfake images of them as children. Case is expected to test whether foundation-model builders can be held liable for downstream misuse.

Two 15-year-olds were allegedly drinking alcohol and shooting toy guns from a Waymo driverless taxi when the company disabled the vehicle and alerted police. The incident has become a policy case study on when autonomous-vehicle operators should share cabin footage with law enforcement.

Shell has built a fast-charging concept car that refills from 10% to 80% in just ten minutes, engineered from scratch in 18 months. Engineers submerged the battery in a new coolant fluid, letting a half-size pack still deliver around 124 miles of range.

Morocco was no match for France, as one of the pre-tournament favorites won 2-0 to book a place in the semifinals. France will now play the winner of the Spain-Belgium quarterfinal for a place in the final.

Ben Rice smashed two home runs and drove in five as the Yankees routed the Rays 12-4 to salvage a series split. New York, winners of just three of its previous 14, chased ace Drew Rasmussen with a six-run third inning.

The Toronto Maple Leafs fired assistant GM Hayley Wickenheiser, one of the most decorated women's hockey players ever, as part of a broader front-office overhaul. Multiple executives were let go alongside her as new leadership resets hockey operations.

Wyatt Langford, activated off the injured list that day, lined a ninth-inning walk-off single to beat the Angels 7-6 after Texas blew a five-run lead. A late Angels rally, capped by Jo Adell's pinch-hit single, had threatened to spoil the night before Langford's heroics.

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America's World Cup loss to Belgium averaged 33.1 million viewers on Fox, the most-watched soccer telecast in US history. Viewership peaked at 41 million, the biggest non-NFL broadcast since Game 7 of the 2016 World Series, with the tournament running to July 19.

Melanie C reflected on the Spice Girls' legacy as she picked up a global impact award in London, revisiting the group's 30-year arc from Wannabe to the reunion cycle that never quite materialized. Speech has already been widely shared on social media by the group's next-generation fanbase.

Anthony Hopkins, 88, has signed to Decca Classics and will release an orchestral album of music he has quietly composed over six decades. Gustavo Dudamel conducts "Life Is a Dream," out August 21, with lead single "Bracken Road" already released.

What it is: South Korean chip giant SK Hynix just raised $26.5 billion in New York, completing the largest US stock-market listing ever undertaken by a foreign company and one of the biggest debuts of any kind in recent memory. Coming only weeks after SpaceX's record-shattering $85.7 billion offering, the sale is the clearest sign yet that the global market for giant corporate flotations has roared fully back to life after years of caution and false starts.

The detail: A sweeping wave of technology and AI-linked firms is now racing toward public markets while investor appetite for the sector runs unusually hot, leaving SK Hynix's enormous sale reportedly seven times oversubscribed by institutions desperate for exposure. Rivals Anthropic and OpenAI are each quietly preparing offerings that could top $1 trillion in value, staggering figures that would have seemed frankly absurd only a handful of years ago and that now barely raise an eyebrow.

Why it matters: These giant listings funnel enormous pools of fresh capital toward the companies actually building artificial intelligence, concentrating extraordinary financial power in the hands of a small and increasingly dominant group of players. Ordinary savers gain new exposure to the AI boom through their pensions and brokerage accounts, yet they quietly inherit its considerable downside risk should today's sky-high valuations eventually prove to be badly and painfully inflated.

What to watch: Watch closely whether the looming Anthropic and OpenAI debuts actually price anywhere near their rumored trillion-dollar marks once they finally reach the market later this year, since those figures will set the tone for everyone behind them. A stumble by either giant could rapidly chill the entire pipeline, while two blockbuster listings would almost certainly pull even more reluctant firms off the sidelines and into a headlong rush for Wall Street's biggest paydays.

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