Updated July 9, 2021 at 2:51 PM ET President Biden unveiled a new plan on Friday taking aim at powerful industries where a handful of players have so much market clout that they can drive up prices, depress wages and make it hard for small companies to break in. "We know we've got a problem, a major problem. We've also got an incredible opportunity," Biden said in remarks before signing the order. "The executive order I'm soon going to be signing commits the federal government to full and...

Nine months before a massive section of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla., came showering down, an engineering firm called Morabito Consultants found "severely deteriorated" concrete throughout the building, including in load-bearing structures known as corbels. According to a document acquired by NPR from an anonymous source, the company's probe, conducted between June and October 2020, found problems that appeared even more grave than those identified in an earlier 2018 study of the...