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If everything had gone to plan for General Motors over the last three years, the Detroit automaker would be well on its way to catching Tesla in sales of electric vehicles. In October 2021, GM CEO Mary Barra declared the automaker would “absolutely” catch up to the U.S. EV leader by 2025. Instead, after slower-than-anticipated EV adoption across the industry and GM-specific challenges with production, software and supply chains, the company remains well behind Elon Musk’s carmaker, as well as Hyundai Motor/Kia and Ford Motor.

The Maryland Department of Agriculture is reminding Maryland poultry farmers to remain vigilant and practice enhanced biosecurity on their farms as the annual fall migration gets underway. Cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) continue to be detected in wild birds and poultry flocks in the Atlantic Flyway.

The city and the owner of an apartment complex in Baltimore’s Brewers Hill that was partially evacuated due to structural problems are at odds over whether it had a rental license. A city spokesman said Monday that Axel Brewers Hill had been operating without a city rental license for nearly a year. A representative of Excelsior Communities, which bought the complex in 2021, said there’s been no lapse in its rental license.

As a boy, David Rubenstein lived in a red-brick rowhouse house on Fallstaff Road in Northwest Baltimore. He went to City College high school, where he was friends with future Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke and gravitated toward government and civics studies. At 75, he’s the fun-loving owner of the Orioles, turning up game after game at Camden Yards as the team limps toward the playoffs.

Six-thousand delivery jobs are up for grabs in the D.C. and Baltimore area, according to a new statement from UPS. Both seasonal and full-time jobs are included in the hiring push from UPS as part of a nationwide campaign to add 125,000 jobs over the 2024 holiday season. “There may be four less shopping days for the 2024 holiday season, but UPS … will be ready,” the courier service said Friday.

The Federal Reserve gave home shoppers what they hoped for this week: a big rate cut and a signal of more cuts to come. Even so, aspiring homebuyers and homeowners eager to refinance should temper their expectations of a big drop in mortgage rates from here. While the Fed doesn’t set mortgage rates, its policy pivot does clear a path for mortgage rates to go lower. But in this case, the Fed’s action was widely anticipated, so rates moved lower well before the cut was even announced.

Cash-strapped Boeing is facing mounting costs from an ongoing machinist strike as workers push for higher pay. A failure to get a deal done could be even more expensive. In the shadow of a factory outside Seattle where Boeing makes its best-selling planes, picketing Boeing machinists told CNBC they have saved up money and have taken or are considering taking side jobs in landscaping, furniture moving or warehouse work to make ends meet if the strike is goes on much longer.