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Federal regulators cleared the Dakota Access pipeline to keep running under tougher environmental rules, but Native tribes who drink from the Missouri River say the risk remains.

Parker-Hannifin is buying Circor Aerospace from KKR, doubling down on aircraft components as demand for commercial aviation stays strong.

Six Democratic senators are pushing back on foreign sovereign wealth funds and Chinese companies buying into a Paramount-Warner Bros. mega-merger.

Britain is shutting down a corporate structure that let oil and gas firms route profits through foreign branches to slash their UK tax bills.

Berlin has the money. The bigger challenge is spending it well, fast, and without the waste that has plagued European rearmament before.

AT&T is suing California to stop maintaining its old copper-wire phone network, a fight that will decide who controls the last landline holdouts.

Canberra is scrapping its capital gains discount and capping gains at a 30% minimum tax, pushing investors toward income stocks and bonds over growth.

Eskom is in early talks with the World Bank to fund up to 5,200 megawatts of new nuclear capacity, with a formal program possibly launching within a year.