US Business

Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell’s significant defeats on climate change are expected to force the oil-and-gas industry to more fully confront how fast the landscape is shifting under pressure from environmentalists and investors.

The company’s purchase of the movie studio, in a deal valued at $6.5 billion, excluding debt, aims to bulk up its Prime Video platform in a race against Netflix, Disney and others.

Colonial Pipeline last year didn’t undergo a requested federal security review of its facilities and was in the process of scheduling a separate audit of its computer networks when hackers hit on May 7.

Google and national hospital chain HCA will work to develop algorithms to help improve operating efficiency, monitor patients and guide doctors’ decisions.

The e-commerce giant’s quest to acquire Hollywood’s storied studio would be its latest big media buy after NFL and “Lord of the Rings” rights.

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine alleged in an antitrust lawsuit that Amazon blocks sellers on its marketplace from offering lower prices elsewhere to stymie competition.

Shareholders vote Wednesday on a bid for four board seats by investors seeking a company commitment to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

A pilot aboard a Ryanair jetliner forced to land in Belarus over the weekend repeatedly questioned air-traffic controllers about their request to reroute the plane to Minsk amid a purported bomb threat, according to a partial transcript released by Belarus’s government aviation agency.

The springboard for the Transportation Security Administration’s new stance is the ransomware attack earlier this month on Colonial Pipeline, as well as a sharp increase in attacks against critical assets.

EU leaders agreed to impose new sanctions against Belarus and ban its airlines from entering the bloc’s airspace and airports, a day after the country’s president ordered a jet fighter to force a plane carrying a dissident journalist to land.