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GM to invest $625 million in joint venture to mine EV battery raw materials in U.S.

DETROIT — General Motors has agreed to establish a joint venture with Lithium Americas Corp.

Listeria recall grows to 12M pounds of meat, poultry; some sent to US schools

A nationwide recall of meat and poultry products potentially contaminated with listeria bacteria has expanded to nearly 12 million pounds

Health - ABC News - October 16

Telecom exec pleads guilty to stealing $100 million from fraud-plagued government program

Issa Asad admitted to submitting phony customer data for years to Lifeline, an FCC program providing discounted telephone and internet service to low-income Americans,

Business - MarketWatch - October 16

GOP donors pour hundreds of millions into pro-Trump super PACs before Election Day

Republican megadonors are opening up their checkbooks to help Donald Trump and other Republicans as Kamala Harris’ fundraising breaks records.

RTX subsidiary Raytheon to pay more than $950 million to settle foreign bribery, export control fraud probes

The huge legal settlement by Raytheon related to bribery in Qatar, and to defrauding the Pentagon in regard to the Patriot Missile systems.

Business - CNBC - October 16

Listeria recall expands to nearly 12 million pounds of meat, hits US schools

BrucePac has recalled additional products and production dates.

Archdiocese of Los Angeles Agrees to Pay $880 Million to Settle Sex Abuse Claims

The settlement is the highest single payout by an archdiocese, experts said, and brings Los Angeles’s cumulative payout in sex abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 17

Taylor Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce is building a basement man cave at his $6 million Kansas City mansion

The Kansas City Chiefs tight end is reported to be building the space to include a golf simulator.

Business - MarketWatch - October 17

Student debt cancelled for 1 million public servants, as other relief remains in limbo

Biden administration touts the milestone while courts are blocking other parts of the White House’s student-loan agenda

Business - MarketWatch - October 17

Biden administration has now canceled loans for more than 1 million public workers

A student loan cancellation program for public service workers has granted relief to more than 1 million Americans — up from just 7,000 who were approved before it was updated by the Biden ...

LA Archdiocese agrees to $880 million settlement for alleged child sex abuse victims

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay out $880 million to more than 1,300 alleged victims of child sex abuse. More than 300 priests have been accused in legal documents and public ...

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