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LOS ANGELES AP 鈥?Ride-hailing company Uber will pay at least $10 million to settle allegations by California prosecutors that the ride-hailing company misled passengers about the quality of its driver background checks.The settlement was signed Thursday in San Francisco, where Uber is based and where the district attorney led a lawsuit that said Uber fals
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