Walmart shoppers are being urged to check their freezers after a supplier recalled certain packages of Bettergoods pasta sold nationwide over potential listeria contamination.

Gias Foods Inc. is recalling two lots of Bettergoods Authentic Italian Lemon Alfredo Fettuccine distributed at Walmart stores across the country, according to a company announcement posted by the Food and Drug Administration. 

The recalled pasta is sold frozen in 22-ounce yellow plastic packages under Walmart’s Bettergoods brand. The affected products have UPC 194346442706 and are marked with lot numbers L6079C or L6080C.

Packages with lot number L6079C have an expiration date of Sept. 19, 2027, while those marked L6080C have an expiration date of Sept. 20, 2027. Both the lot number and expiration date are stamped on the back of the packaging.

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No illnesses have been reported in connection with the recalled products, the company said.

The recall followed routine sampling conducted by the Washington State Department of Agriculture and Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

The sampling indicated that the finished products may contain Listeria monocytogenes, according to the announcement.

Gias Foods has stopped distributing the affected product while the company and FDA continue investigating what caused the potential contamination.

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Representatives for Gias Foods and Walmart did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ requests for comment.

The FDA posts company recall announcements as a public service and notes that publishing an announcement does not constitute an endorsement of the product or company.

Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, older adults and people with weakened immune systems, according to the recall announcement.

Healthy people may experience short-term symptoms, including high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. A listeria monocytogenes infection can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

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Because the recalled product is frozen and carries expiration dates extending into September 2027, consumers are being urged to check packages they may have stored in their freezers.

Consumers who purchased either affected lot should return the product to the place of purchase for a full refund, according to Gias Foods.

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Customers with questions can contact Gias Foods at sales@giasfoods.com or 917-675-4890.

The company said email inquiries will receive a response within 24 hours.

Mumbai: The Indian rupee closed stronger at 95.59 on Tuesday, amid a pull back in oil prices and dollar sales by the central bank, traders said. Brent crude oil prices dropped to $98 per barrel, easing pressure on the currency which had previously closed at 95.81.

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The currency traded in the range of 95.58 and 95.86, with the central bank selling dollars at weaker levels. The rupee saw a choppy session as state-run banks sold dollars while corporate demand for the greenback provided a counterforce, creating a push-and-pull dynamic in the market.
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“Gains earlier during the day were supported by dollar sales by the RBI, and later corporate dollar demand again wiped these gains. The RBI then intervened around 95.85 levels and kept a lid on further weakness,” said Anil Bhansali, head of treasury, Finrex Treasury Advisors.

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In a recent survey of more than 5,500 people, commissioned by Citizens Advice, 36% adults said they were behind on at least one bill, but for those in their 20s that figure climbs to 57%.

Ezgi Polat is one of them. When the 23-year-old, from Ramsey in Cambridgeshire, lost her job 12 months ago, her family weren’t in a position to help, so she quickly fell behind on rent and bills.

“My parents were struggling financially, just like I am, just like everyone else…. I got myself in arrears, a lot of debt because I just couldn’t afford it – £300 was not covering any of my bills at that point.”

Her local bus service was cancelled, making trips to the job centre increasingly difficult, so her benefits were then cut. She was receiving £360 a month in Universal Credit, but with rent at £460, plus utility bills, council tax and living costs, her total debt spiralled to about £4,000.

After turning to Citizens Advice for help, her rent arrears were wiped out by the council three months ago, and she’s agreed to paying £200 a month to both her electricity and water company in repayment plans.

She’s delighted to have now got work in a warehouse and feels like life is getting back on track, but it’s not been an easy road.

“A lot of older people feel like we’re not ambitious enough, or we’re not striving hard enough, but they’d be surprised at the amount of people out there so desperate for work and so desperate for support but with nowhere to turn to,” she says.

The latest government figures show that just under a million young people are currently not in employment, education or training.

A government spokesperson said “We are determined to restore hope and deliver opportunity for young people in every postcode. That’s why we are investing £2.5 billion to create opportunities for young people to earn or learn through more apprenticeships, job grants, and training. And for those moving out for the first time, our Renters’ Rights Act gives tenants more rights and protection from excessive increases.”

But Luke Young, head of policy at Citizens Advice, thinks young people are trapped between rising costs and a difficult jobs market.

“For young people right now the divide is growing bigger between those who do have financial support from families and other networks, and then those who don’t. Young people who don’t have that wider support network are being let down.”

Additional reporting: Adam Clarkson and Elliot Deady

Priority Technology PRTH 33.79%increase; up pointing triangle Holdings agreed to be taken private by an investor group led by its chair and chief executive, Thomas Priore, in a deal with an enterprise value of around $1.6 billion.

Priore’s group would acquire all the stock it doesn’t already own for $8.05 a share in cash, which the payment-technology company said is a 65% premium to its share price on Nov. 7, 2025, just prior to the investor group’s preliminary acquisition proposal. The price also represents a 38% premium to the company’s Friday closing price.

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Players of the long-running fantasy MMORPG “RuneScape” began reporting widespread connectivity problems in the early hours of Tuesday, with outage-tracking service Downdetector logging a spike in user complaints starting at 2:21 a.m. Eastern time and the hashtag #RunescapeDown trending on social platform X as affected players compared notes on the disruption.

Downdetector’s official account posted an alert shortly after the spike began, asking users how the outage was affecting them and directing them to submit detailed reports through the platform. According to the latest tracking of the incident, 74% of reported problems were related to server connection issues, making it the most widespread category of complaint by a wide margin. Login problems accounted for another 12% of reports, while gameplay-related issues made up roughly 8% of the total.

Affected players described a range of specific symptoms tied to the outage. Some reported being unable to retrieve the game’s available world list, the selection screen RuneScape players use to choose which game server to log into before playing. Others said they were being disconnected while actively playing, interrupting sessions already in progress. A smaller number of players also reported experiencing lag affecting in-game interactions on servers that did remain accessible, suggesting the disruption was degrading performance even for some players who were able to connect, rather than uniformly blocking access altogether.

“RuneScape,” developed and published by British game studio Jagex, first launched in January 2001 and has remained one of the longest continuously operating massively multiplayer online role-playing games still active today. The game is set in the fantasy world of Gielinor, where players create customizable avatars and pursue an open-ended mix of quests, skill training, combat and social activities. Jagex also operates “Old School RuneScape,” a separate version of the game based on an earlier iteration of Gielinor that the studio has continued to update in parallel with the modern version, commonly referred to as RS3. As of the most recent outage reports, independent monitoring of Old School RuneScape’s status had not flagged the same level of disruption affecting the main RuneScape service, suggesting Tuesday’s issues may have been concentrated specifically on RS3’s infrastructure rather than affecting both versions of the game equally, though this could not be independently confirmed.

Jagex maintains an official support account on X, JagexSupport, which the company has used during past service disruptions to acknowledge issues and post updates as its engineering team investigates. The studio also operates a dedicated Game Status Information Centre page where it publishes technical updates, including changes to system requirements and platform support, though that page’s most recent update at the time of the outage concerned an unrelated change to minimum specifications for the Jagex Launcher on Mac computers rather than any acknowledgment of Tuesday’s connectivity problems specifically.

Not every reported connectivity issue necessarily traces back to a problem on Jagex’s own servers. Independent outage-tracking services that monitor RuneScape’s status have noted that the game’s server connection, login authentication and in-game performance can each be affected by separate, unrelated factors, meaning a disruption reported by one player is not always indicative of a broader, platform-wide outage affecting all users simultaneously. Common troubleshooting advice offered by such services includes restarting the game client, restarting a home router, and verifying that graphics drivers and other software are fully up to date, since outdated drivers have separately been cited by some players as a source of error messages unrelated to any active outage.

RuneScape has built a substantial and enduring player base over its more than two-decade history. By January of this year, RuneScape and Old School RuneScape had together generated more than $3 billion in lifetime revenue, according to figures reported at the time, reflecting the franchise’s sustained commercial success even as the broader MMORPG genre has evolved considerably since the game’s original launch. The franchise has also faced periodic criticism from its player community over the years regarding changes to trading systems, player-versus-player combat mechanics and microtransactions, with Jagex removing its Treasure Hunter microtransaction system in January following a community vote on the matter.

As of the most recent available information, neither Jagex nor RuneScape’s official channels had issued a detailed public statement specifying the root cause of Tuesday’s early morning disruption, and it remained unclear whether the issue was affecting all regions and platforms equally or was concentrated among specific groups of players. Players seeking the most current and authoritative updates on the situation were directed to Jagex’s official support channels and in-game status announcements rather than relying solely on crowdsourced outage trackers, which can occasionally lag behind or imprecisely characterize the true scope of a still-developing technical issue.

Downdetector, the platform that first flagged Tuesday’s disruption, aggregates user-submitted problem reports alongside automated monitoring signals to identify spikes in complaints for a given online service, generating alerts when reports exceed typical baseline levels for that platform and time of day. With reports of server connection, login and gameplay issues continuing to circulate in the early morning hours, affected players are likely to continue monitoring both Downdetector and Jagex’s own official channels for confirmation of the outage’s cause and any updates on when full service is expected to be restored.

SYDNEY — Shares in Sunrise Energy Metals Ltd. surged 12.71% to $20.48, adding $2.31, pushing the Australian scandium developer’s stock back toward the upper end of its 52-week trading range as investors continue piling into a company that has become one of the most closely watched turnaround stories on the ASX over the past year.

Tuesday’s rally recovers ground the stock had given up earlier this month, when shares fell sharply amid broader market volatility. It also extends what has already been an extraordinary run for the company: Sunrise Energy Metals shares have climbed more than 2,500% over the trailing twelve months, according to recent market analysis, rocketing from roughly 21 cents to well above $6 earlier in the year before continuing to climb into the $20 range in recent weeks, as the company has transitioned from a speculative exploration stock into what investors increasingly view as a credible developer racing to become the Western world’s first major primary scandium producer.

Sunrise’s rise has been driven by a series of major financing and strategic milestones tied to its Syerston Scandium Project in New South Wales. In August, the company secured a conditional commitment for a $400 million loan from the U.S. Department of Defense, delivered through the Department’s Office of Strategic Capital, alongside plans to begin preparations for a listing on a U.S. securities exchange. The loan is structured as a 25-year conditional debt facility and will be released in phases as the project hits specific construction milestones, with the funding also expanding the project’s scope to include construction of scandium metal refining capacity within the United States itself.

Sunrise chairman Robert Friedland described the U.S. government backing as a defining moment for both the company and the broader Australian mining sector. “This is a landmark moment for Sunrise and Australia’s mining industry, and the financing aligns with the goals of the US-Australia Partnership on critical minerals,” Friedland said at the time. He also thanked the U.S. administration directly for its support of the project. “We thank President Donald J. Trump and the Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital for its support as we aim to establish Syerston as a cornerstone of Western scandium supply,” Friedland said.

An official from the Department’s Office of Strategic Capital, Michael Lorch, a senior adviser to Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg, said the arrangement was designed to help the United States reduce its reliance on foreign sources for a metal considered critical to national security and advanced manufacturing. Lorch said the deal would “help address foreign dependencies in scandium supply.”

Scandium, the rare metal at the center of Sunrise’s Syerston project, is used to strengthen aluminum alloys for aerospace and defense applications and has increasingly found demand in powering artificial intelligence data center infrastructure. China currently controls nearly 70% of global rare earth mining and roughly 90% of global processing capacity, a concentration that has driven sustained U.S. government interest in developing alternative, Western-aligned supply chains for critical minerals like scandium.

Sunrise Chief Executive Officer Sam Riggall has described the scale of the Syerston project’s potential in similarly ambitious terms. Speaking to CNBC in June, Riggall said the project would have “the capacity to replace everything that China supplies today from this one mining operation,” underscoring the scale of ambition behind the company’s plans even as the project continues working toward a final investment decision.

Beyond the U.S. government financing, Sunrise’s rally has also been fueled by a strategic offtake arrangement with Lockheed Martin, giving the defense contractor a pathway to secure scandium supply directly from the Syerston project once it reaches production. That combination of government-backed financing support and a credible offtake agreement with a major U.S. defense contractor has been cited by analysts as offering a meaningful vote of confidence in the project’s commercial viability, distinguishing Sunrise from many other speculative ASX-listed mining developers still working to secure comparable customer and financing commitments.

The Syerston project itself is expected to have a 32-year operating life, with the current phase targeting production of approximately 60 tonnes per annum of high-purity scandium oxide. Sunrise is also evaluating a second development phase that could add a further 120 tonnes of annual production capacity. The company has revised its total capital cost estimate for the project to between $450 million and $475 million following an expansion in scope, with power generation costs now incorporated directly into that capital expenditure figure. Sunrise continues working toward a final investment decision, targeted for the second half of 2026, ahead of a first production target set for the second half of 2028.

Sunrise’s balance sheet has remained a point of relative strength throughout the company’s rapid transition from explorer to developer. The company executed three separate equity placements during its most recent financial year, and as of August held a substantial cash position with zero debt on its balance sheet, giving it a comfortable liquidity buffer to continue funding pre-construction work, long-lead equipment procurement and engineering studies without near-term cash-burn pressure.

With the stock’s dramatic year-long trajectory continuing to draw close attention from both institutional and retail investors, and with Sunrise still working toward its targeted final investment decision later this year, market participants are likely to continue watching closely for further updates on project financing, offtake agreements and construction milestones as the next set of catalysts likely to shape the stock’s path in the months ahead.