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Twelve state attorneys general are the last thing blocking Paramount and Warner Bros. from combining. Paramount wants them to pay $1.9 billion if they're wrong.

America's biggest retailers posted strong headlines this quarter, but shrinking basket sizes and one-time tariff windfalls tell a more complicated story.

The digital bank hit a milestone quarter, but rising bad loans and soaring costs signal that the easy growth phase may be ending.

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally blacklisted Anthropic for criticizing the Pentagon, in a case that will shape who controls AI's limits.

KinderCare posted an $8.8M quarterly loss and falling enrollment, and is now closing up to 85 centers in a bet that shrinking will make it stronger.

States are blocking new data centers over water use. AirJoule makes machines that pull water from air, and regulators just handed it a sales pitch.

Brazil's high interest rates are pushing StoneCo's bad loans to nearly double last year's rate, even as its credit business grows at breakneck speed.

Sun Life and Wilton Re are pooling $900 million to build a reinsurer that will quietly absorb billions in life insurance and annuity policies.