T-Mobile and Sprint have promised to expand 5G mobile phone coverage to rural areas in the United States once they have combined their assets. The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday conditioned its approval of the merger on the companies fulfilling that commitment.

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg’s apologies for failures that led to two devastating plane crashes did not sway lawmakers or families of victims at a hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill. People who lost loved ones in the crashes of Boeing 737 Max planes owned by Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines sat behind Muilenberg at the hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and held up photos of their dead relatives as he testified. The planes went down in October 2018 and March of this year, killing nearly 350 people.

A middle-of-the-night, $260 million settlement on Monday averted the first federal opioid trial, which was set to start hours later. Drug distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson will pay two Ohio counties a combined $215 million, according to Cuyahoga County’s attorney, with an additional $20 million in cash and $25 million worth of opioid treatment Suboxone coming from Israeli drugmaker Teva. None of the companies had to admit wrongdoing under the deal.

Juul Labs has taken another step to try to repair the public’s lack of trust in the vaping industry. The company announced Thursday it would voluntarily pull mango, crème, fruit, and cucumber flavor vaping pods from stores in response to criticism that it has hooked teenagers on electronic cigarettes.

The 31-day General Motors strike may start winding down. The United Auto Workers union said Wednesday it reached a tentative deal with the largest U.S. automaker. Factory-level union officials are set to meet and sign off on the deal on Thursday, and the UAW’s 49,000 members at GM also have to ratify it.

Juul is shutting down broadcast, print, and digital advertising, as well as lobbying efforts in Washington. The electronic cigarette maker said Wednesday a senior executive from tobacco giant Altria, which owns a 35 percent stake in Juul, would replace CEO Kevin Burns. Altria and Phillip Morris International called off discussions of a merger amid Juul’s upheaval.

Families have until Dec. 31 to file a claim to receive $144,000 for the deaths of their loved ones in the crashes of Boeing 737 Max airplanes. Dozens of families are suing the Chicago-based company after planes went down in October 2018 and March of this year, killing nearly 350 people flying out of Indonesia and Ethiopia. “$144,000 doesn’t come close to compensating any of our families or any of the families,” Nomaan Husain, a Texas-based attorney who is representing 15 families, told the BBC.