SPRINGVILLE, Utah (AP) — The state of Utah has revoked the license of a boarding school where socialite Paris Hilton said she was abused as a teenager, saying the school has “failed to provide applicable health and safety services for clients.”
The state's action, which took effect Monday, cites multiple noncompliance issues against the Provo Canyon School's campus in Springville. The school has 15 days to request a hearing before the Department of Health & Human Services.
The wide-ranging citations, which go back to 2025, include failing to increase staff-to-client ratios, engaging in an unnecessary restraint and aggressive physical contact with a client, neglecting care, and not verifying employee information or submitting background checks for applicants in a timely manner. State health officials imposed temporary restrictions on the school in May, saying staff did not seek immediate medical care for a student with serious injuries.
“For more than fifty years, children came forward with stories of abuse, neglect, and trauma,” Hilton said in a statement provided Tuesday. “Today, the state confirmed what survivors have known all along: Provo Canyon School failed the children in its care.
“I was one of those children. I know what it feels like to cry for help and believe no one is coming. Today, children still inside that facility know someone is finally coming to protect them.”
Hilton, the hotel heiress and media personality, spent almost a year at the school in the late 1990s. She alleges staff members beat her, watched her shower, fed her unknown pills and locked her in solitary confinement without clothing.
Hilton, 45, called on Utah licensors to shut down the school. She has testified about her experiences there in Congress and state legislatures around the U.S., helping pass laws to protect teens in Utah and 15 other states. Utah has long played an outsized role in the troubled teen industry, a network of private, for-profit residential centers for children with behavioral issues.
Provo Canyon School did not immediately respond to an Associated Press email seeking comment. The state said in its letter that all services at the campus must be terminated by Aug. 6.
In June, Hilton returned to the school to speak in support of two families who filed lawsuits alleging their children were mistreated there.
The school is under new ownership. The administration has said it can’t comment on anything that came before the change, including Hilton’s time there.
FILE -Signage for the Provo Canyon School in Springville, Utah, is pictured June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — The roller-coaster ride for AI stocks is snapping lower again Tuesday and weighing on Wall Street.
The S&P 500 fell 0.6% even though the majority of stocks within the index rose. The drops for stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry dragged the Nasdaq down 1.2%, as of 10:15 a.m. Eastern time, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 107 points, or 0.2%.
The weakness began in Asia, where Samsung Electronics tumbled 6.9% in Seoul. The tech giant gave a preliminary look at its performance for the second quarter, and the numbers were strong. Samsung Electronics said it expects to say its operating profit surged roughly 1,800% from a year earlier.
Analysts called the numbers surprisingly good, but they still weren’t enough for investors after its stock came into the day having well more than doubled in the year so far.
On Wall Street, AI stocks have been under similar pressure in recent weeks on worries that their prices shot too high and that AI may not produce enough productivity and profits to make all the investments in chips and data centers worth it.
Micron Technology fell 7.8% and was the heaviest weight on the S&P 500. Nvidia sank 1.4% and was just behind Micron in influence. Because the AI boom has made it the largest stock on Wall Street by value, a 1.4% move for Nvidia has more effect on the S&P 500 than a similar move by any other company.
SpaceX, which owns the xAI business, fell 6% in its first trading after getting included in the Nasdaq 100 index.
Outside of tech, Vertex Pharmaceuticals fell 2.3% after saying it agreed to buy Crinetics Pharmaceuticals for $85 per share in cash. Crinetics, which develops therapeutics for endocrine diseases, soared 98.8%.
Stocks also generally felt pressure from a rise in oil prices after the British military said a tanker traveling in the Strait of Hormuz was struck by a projectile and caught fire.
Iranian state television said the liquefied natural gas tanker came under attack after ignoring warnings but did not directly claim the assault. That upset hopes that the war in Iran may be winding down and that the Strait of Hormuz may fully reopen to oil tankers bringing crude to customers worldwide from the Persian Gulf.
Brent crude, the international standard, rose 2.7% to $73.94.
Higher oil prices put upward pressure on inflation, and Treasury yields climbed higher in the bond market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.51% from 4.48%
High yields worldwide have been rattling investors after oil prices burst above $100 per barrel earlier in the summer because of the war. The worry is that high inflation may force the Federal Reserve and other central banks to hike interest rates. High rates can keep a lid on inflation, but they also slow the economy and hurt prices for all kinds of investments.
In stock markets abroad, South Korea’s Kospi tumbled 4.9% because Samsung Electronics alone makes up more than a quarter of the index.
Other Asian indexes also fell, including a 2.1% drop for Japan’s Nikkei 225 index, while European indexes were mixed.
AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed to this report.
Michael Pistillo, left, and Federico DeMarco work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, July 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Michael Pistillo works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, July 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
After ringing the opening bell from the White House, United States President Donald Trump is seen on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, in New York, Monday, July 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Currency traders watch monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
