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TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Four prisoners from Lebanon held in Israel were released and handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross Friday as part of a deal between the two countries. In return, Lebanon agreed to search for the bodies of Jewish Lebanese citizens who went missing during the country’s civil war decades ago. Dozens of Lebanese prisoners are believed to be held in Israeli detention centers, […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Air pollution in a town in Sarawak state on Borneo Island breached Malaysia’s emergency-level threshold on Friday amid worsening haze linked to forest and land fires in neighboring Indonesia. The Air Pollutant Index in Serian, a small agricultural town of just under 90,000 near the border of Indonesia’s Kalimantan province, surged to 521 on Friday, according to Malaysia’s environment department. Sarawak’s much-larger capital, Kuching, also […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Diesel hit a new record price in the U.S. on Friday, soaring to an average of $5.85 a gallon for the first time ever as the six-month war with Iran disrupts the world’s flow of fuel. Because diesel is used for many freight and delivery networks, higher diesel prices mean higher transportation costs for a long list of everyday goods. More expensive fuel is increasing bills for […]

By Heather Schlitz YPSILANTI, Michigan, Sept 4 (Reuters) – During the height of the summer outbreak of cyclosporiasis, Dea Lancaster set aside her usual duties as nurse coordinator at Michigan’s Washtenaw County Health Department to call patients, asking about their symptoms and tracing the contaminated food they ate. The stress of handling one of the largest U.S. foodborne illness outbreaks in decades gave her an eye twitch as she called dozens […]

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Investors will zero in on inflation data next week that they say could determine whether the U.S. Federal Reserve hikes interest rates later in the month. Major U.S. stock indexes as of Thursday were on pace for their second straight week of gains, lifting the benchmark S&P 500 to just 0.7% shy of its mid-August record high. Equities were boosted by […]

By Nate Raymond Sept 4 (Reuters) – Jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial will begin a seventh day of deliberations on Friday after repeatedly hitting an impasse over whether to convict the Massachusetts woman of killing her three young children, a tragedy her lawyer says was driven by postpartum psychosis. The 12 jurors are expected to reconvene in Plymouth, Massachusetts, a day after Judge William Sullivan rejected a request by […]

By Deepa Seetharaman and Raphael Satter SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 4 (Reuters) – A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research published Friday and two people familiar with the matter. OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as executives grappled with the fallout from the July […]

By Luc Cohen Sept 4 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to enforce a new U.S. Postal Service rule tightening the use of mail-in ballots, leaving states in limbo as to whether they will be required to implement it for the November 3 midterm elections. The uncertainty has taken on new urgency as deadlines approach for U.S. states to send out mail […]

By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) – U.S. military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and statements given to Reuters, a development that follows reports that commercially available location data had been used to target American forces in the Middle East. The Air Force told Wyden it disabled the advertising identifiers on computers […]