This week brought a mix of serious headlines and splashy moves.

On one end, regulators and retailers are making decisions that could directly affect your wallet and grocery cart—from FICO shaking up how mortgage lenders handle credit scores to Walmart promising cleaner labels on its private-label food. On the other, cultural and corporate forces collided in ways that only 2025 could deliver: Starbucks is closing stores (many of them unionized), and Taylor Swift is rolling out a new album and a three-day movie event that’s giving theaters a rare box office jolt.

Here are some of the week’s biggest stories.

More pasta recalled after deadly listeria outbreak

Retailers added new ready-to-eat pasta items to ongoing listeria-related recalls this week, including products from Trader Joe’s and

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