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The Department of Justice Antitrust Division plans to expand the scrutiny of bank mergers, putting the banking sector on “high alert.”

The director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Chinese hackers are likely to disrupt critical American infrastructure were a conflict to occur.

National Drug Control Policy Director Rahul Gupta said the opioid crisis could claim as many as 165,000 lives annually by 2025.

The National Science Foundation announced grants for design and development of airborne-based radar that could revolutionize hurricane forecasting.

The president’s deputy director for Consumer Protection on the National Economic Council said that spending caps that are part of the debt ceiling agreement could be “overridden” if necessary.

The federal government still has concerns about contamination in some infant formula products more than a year after the FDA shut down infant formula manufacture at Abbott Laboratories.

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with a Chinese diplomat last week in Vienna, Austria, to discuss mutual concerns.

The chairwoman of the FTC said her agency is watching for “unfair or deceptive” use of artificial intelligence.

DEA Administrator Anne Milgram told members of the House Appropriations Committee that the agency is doing what it needs to do.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the U.S. needs more domestic sourcing of minerals for electric vehicle batteries.