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The scrutiny follows the drugmaker’s disclosure that it scrapped distribution of doses after an ingredient didn’t meet quality standards at a contract manufacturing facility.

The move comes after media mogul Byron Allen and other Black media executives took out a full-page ad in several papers accusing GM of ignoring Black-owned media outlets.

The agency authorized the first Covid-19 tests for repeated, frequent use by consumers at home to screen for infections even if they don’t have symptoms.

Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft are each a tech behemoth in their own right, and the ways the five rely on one another as partners while also competing as rivals help shape Big Tech’s clout.

A potential deal could value the Japanese company at around $30 billion as a scramble for memory chips used in smartphones and other devices heats up.

Johnson & Johnson says the batch didn’t advance to the filling and finish stages of its manufacturing process and that the quality lapse wouldn’t affect its ability to supply the U.S. with 100 million doses by the end of May.

The funds, which would be raised by tax increases, would go toward production incentives and research and design, including the creation of a National Semiconductor Technology Center.

Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm felt moved to lobby for Chinese rival Huawei to protect his global business against a backlash from Beijing. His biggest shareholder, Sweden’s Wallenberg family, also felt the heat.

With ships moving again through the Suez Canal, another bottleneck in the supply chain remains—this one in Southern California, where the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach together handle more than a third of U.S. container imports.

The Federal Trade Commission said it would seek to block Illumina’s planned $7.1 billion acquisition of a developer of a long-sought blood test that promises to detect cancer early.