QUICK HITS

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Settlement reached: A manufacturer of commercial explosives will pay a $2.9 million civil penalty and make substantial improvements to plants in Missouri to settle a federal lawsuit contending it discharged excessive amounts of pollutants into two waterways.

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Sub delay: The Navy’s newest Virginia-class submarines are expected to be 10 to 15 months late as contractors General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries try to recover from assembly faults that have dogged recent boats in the $161 billion program. The average delay of 10.5 months is an increase from a seven-month average cited in March by the Naval Sea Systems Command for 10 vessels being built under a 2014 contract.

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Opioid deaths: Opioid-related overdoses could be 28 percent higher than reported due to incomplete death records, researchers found in a published study. More than 400,000 people in the United States have died from opioid overdoses since the turn of the century.

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Rural schools: A bookkeeping change at the Education Department will kick more than 800 rural school districts out of a federal program that for nearly two decades has funneled funding to some of the most geographically isolated and cashstrapped schools in the U.S.

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India unrest: Indian police officers on Friday swooped down on neighborhoods in the capital that have been wracked by religious violence this week, arresting more than a dozen people amid a brewing controversy over where to place blame for the bloodshed. Lines of officers searched homes and combed through burned-out properties where some suspects were thought to be hiding as more residents, especially Muslims, fled the area.