Nationwide protests against Dakota oil pipeline as builder seeks key OK

CANNON BALL, N.D. -- The company building the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline has asked a federal judge’s permission to circumvent the Obama administration and move ahead with a disputed section of the project in North Dakota. This, as opponents held protests across the country against the pipeline.Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners and a subsidiary asked the court Tuesday to let them lay pipe under a Missouri River reservoir, a plan the Standing Rock Sioux tribe says threatens