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After a roller coaster year for deals, we look at what's in store for 2026.

Plus, the heirs to A Texas Billionaire will pay $750 million in the biggest U.S.

tax fraud case ever.

And the electricity crisis in Ukraine has left some parts of the country in the dark for days.

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The estate of billionaire Robert Brockman has agreed to pay $750 million in back taxes and penalties, settling a case that arose from what the U.S.

government called the biggest tax fraud charges ever filed against a person.

The details were revealed in a U.S.

tax court filing yesterday.

The IRS had been seeking $1.4 billion, including interest, in the case.

Brockman was a wealthy Texas auto software entrepreneur who was known for his penny-pinching ways, staying at budget hotels and eating frozen dinners in his room.