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CAMARILLO, Calif., July 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Salem Media, Inc. (OTCQX: SALM) announced a leadership transition for Salem Surround, the company’s digital marketing agency, as longtime Salem executive Jon Latzer prepares to retire following his many years of service to the company. Latzer has been instrumental in the growth of Salem Surround, helping expand the company’s digital marketing capabilities while supporting local markets, sales teams, clients, and vendor partnerships across the country. His leadership has helped position Salem Surround as a key part of Salem’s broader digital strategy.”Jon has been a tremendous leader and trusted partner throughout his time at…

San Francisco, CA , July 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The AI Collective, one of the world’s largest communities of AI builders, founders, and enterprise practitioners, today announced it has been named an official partner of the AGI-26 Conference, the premier gathering for artificial general intelligence research, development, and deployment. The partnership brings together AGI Conference’s deep bench of leading researchers and theorists with The AI Collective’s network of thousands of engineers, founders, and enterprise leaders who are building and deploying AI systems in production today. Together, the two organizations aim to close the gap between frontier AGI research and…

NEW YORK, July 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Atlas Healthcare Fund managed by VST Capital, today highlighted a series of early conviction investment decisions that have defined its track record since launch — none more striking than its position in Eli Lilly and Company, entered at approximately $350 per share in 2020, years before GLP-1 receptor agonists became the most consequential pharmaceutical story of the decade. Eli Lilly now trades above $1,200, a gain of more than 246% from the fund’s entry point. At the time of purchase, Lilly’s tirzepatide was in Phase II trials with limited analyst coverage and minimal…

Torontonians may see an improvement in air quality Friday afternoon, but it won’t last long as wildfire smoke continues to plague the region. Environment Canada said Friday in its updated orange air quality warning that the smoke from the wildfires in northwestern Ontario is continuing to have an impact on many communities in the province’s south.The air quality warning has been in place since Wednesday, when Canada’s largest city had the worst air quality in the world. As of Friday morning, Toronto’s air is being described as “very unhealthy” by IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company that operates the…

The perils of wildfire smoke don’t stop at the lungs or the heart. They can also affect the brain. Recent research shows tiny particles from wildfire smoke — known as PM2.5, fine particulate matter — are so small they can travel deep into the lungs.But they don’t always end their journey there.Some slip into the bloodstream, or get to the brain directly through the nose, says Dr. Bhavini Gohel of the University of Calgary’s O’Brien Institute for Public Health.When toxins reach the brain, they can cause inflammation, resulting in fogginess, lack of focus and headache, she says.Increasing exposure to these…

MONACO, July 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Yacht Club de Monaco is expanding the global reach of the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge with the launch of a new international qualification programme: the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge World Series. “We started the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge more than 10 years ago and, with the growing success of the event and the increasing number of participating teams, we are now expanding our reach. That’s why we want to introduce a qualification system, similar to what exists in other sports. The first preliminary qualifying events will take place in Australia and Italy,…

FREMONT, Calif., July 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Jackery, a global leader in portable power and solar generators, today announced that FridgeGuard, the world’s slimmest refrigerator backup power, is now available exclusively at Costco, expanding access to a smarter, more seamless solution designed to protect one of the home’s most essential appliance: the refrigerator. As extreme weather, grid instability and unexpected outages continue to impact households across the country, and with U.S. electricity customers experiencing an average of 11 hours of power outages in 2024, nearly double the prior decade’s average, FridgeGuard provides consumers with a simple way to keep…

Huntsville, AL, July 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GeoCue announces the premiere of the latest episodes of its award-winning reality series, Down to Earth. The new three-part series, Mapping on the GO, once again features LETEL, a leader in civil engineering, drone technology, LiDAR, and construction services, as the team adds the TrueView GO handheld LiDAR scanner to its professional mapping workflow. Click Here to watch the 1st episode now. LETEL has already built a strong reputation as an aerial LiDAR service provider, using TrueView drone LiDAR systems and LP360 software to help customers collect accurate survey data for construction,…

It’s been a passion for Robert and Nancy Wheeldon for decades — working to conserve the peregrine falcon species and the art of falconry. “I had my first falcon in 1966,” Robert told Global News.“It was a passion from probably when I was five.”That passion led the couple to form Parkland Mews Falconry & Bird of Prey Education Centre Inc., a facility that focuses on educating the public, preserving the species and the art of falconry, an ancient hunting technique built on bonds between people and falcons. “First and foremost, falconry is a hunting activity. It begins and ends in…

Photo Courtesy by BeechBand STEVENAGE, United Kingdom, July 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BeechBand traces its origins to its founder Carl’s own experience searching for relief after being diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s, according to the company. Carl has said that tapping helped restore his ability to speak, and that co-founder Nick Whiteley later suggested building a wearable device to reproduce that tapping motion without requiring the use of hands. BeechBand says that idea, developed through multiple prototypes, became the basis for the company’s current product. The company says Carl wore an early version of the device consistently for thirteen months.…