NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks edged lower in light trading on Wall Street as investors returned from the Christmas holiday. The S&P 500 index slipped less than 0.1% Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average also fell less than 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.1%. Institutional investors have largely closed out their positions for the year.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza ‘s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents on Saturday for another round of winter rain. Some families in the central town of Deir al-Balah said they had been living in tents for about two years, or for most of the war between Israel and Hamas that has devastated the territory.

SAO PAULO (AP) – A Brazilian judge on Saturday issued house arrest orders for 10 people who have been convicted and sentenced for participating in a plot to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in power after he lost the 2022 election.