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Sept 22 (Reuters) - Following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chair of Fox Corp and News Corp, after building a media empire over seven decades that revolutionized news and entertainment and made him one of the world's most influential and controversial tycoons.
- Cisco Systems has struck a $28 billion deal to buy analytics and security-software company Splunk as the networking-equipment giant looks to tap further into the rise of artificial intelligence.
- 3M has agreed to pay more than $9.6 million to settle a probe by the U.S. Treasury Department into sales to an Iranian entity controlled by the country's law enforcement forces.
- The Biden administration's antitrust cops sued one of the country's biggest anesthesiology providers, U.S. Anesthesia Partners on Thursday, launching a novel assault on Wall Street ownership of healthcare companies.
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)