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October 17, 2012 | | MISLEADING Romney was wrong when he said Obama doubled the deficit. The president misled when he said he cut taxes by $3,600. The Daily Beast’s Caitlin Dickson turns to the Internet’s reliable fact checkers to reveal the truth—or falsity—of the debaters’ claims. OUTBREAK Federal agents on Tuesday raided the Massachusetts lab that has been linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak that has so far killed 16 and sickened more than 200. U.S. Food and Drug Administration agents and local police searched the New England Compounding Center, or NECC, in the Boston suburb of Framingham, which has been accused of breaking federal laws in dealing with controlled substances. Nearly 14,000 people nationwide are considered at risk for meningitis after they received steroid injections shipped from 76 facilities in 26 states, which federal agents allege was made at the NECC facility. NECC officials said the raid was “unnecessary.” BIG MONEY Looks like hacking was pretty lucrative for Rebekah Brooks. The onetime trusted deputy of Rupert Murdoch reportedly received an $11.3 million severance package when she resigned in disgrace last year, sources familiar to her agreement said Tuesday. The former chief executive of News International, the British wing of Murdoch’s News Corp., Brooks resigned last year amid questions about her alleged involvement with hacking at the tabloid the News of the World, which Murdoch shut down shortly before Brooks quit and former News of the World employee reportedly leaked the details of Brooks’s severance package, saying his former co-workers are “as angry as the general public” over the scandal. Brooks faces trial next year over criminal charges in relation to the scandal. IN MEMORIAM The week of mourning for Cambodian King Norodom began on Wednesday as the monarch’s body was returned Phnom Pehn. The 89-year-old Norodom Sihanouk died Monday in Beijing, and as many as 100,000 are expected to line the coffin’s route from the airport to the royal palace. Sihanouk became king in 1941 while still a teenager, and led Cambodia to independence from France in 1953 and remained in power despite years of political and social turmoil in his country—including his ill-fated decision to back the violent Khmer Rouge in its early years. Sihanouk’s body will remain at the palace for three months for people to pay their respects before his funeral and cremation. | | 
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