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In a ruling Monday morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied President Donald Trump’s request for a preliminary injunction protecting him from a grand jury subpoena for his tax returns. The court in an opinion written by Chief Judge Robert Katzmann rejected the notion that the president is immune from all state criminal processes...

While one of the co-founders of Google admitted that censoring Google searches in China--blocking information from Chinese citizens that their communist government would find embarrassing-- turned out to be a bad business move, the other founder, Larry Page, gave no hint that there would be a reversal of their practices. He said, "I don't think we as a company should be making decisions based on too much perception." What Mr. Page doesn't understand is that free speech is not a matter of "perception". Maybe he would understand this better if every time someone did a search for "Google", he received...

ALGIERS/DUBAI (Reuters) - OPEC is expected to make formal on Monday a deal to remove 1 million barrels a day of crude from oversupplied markets, an OPEC source said, as ministers lined up to support the cut. Iran, OPEC's second biggest producer, and Algeria on Sunday publicly backed the reduction, OPEC's first since April 2004. The plan was made public on Thursday by a senior OPEC delegate. "I think there is more or less consensus for 1 million bpd," OPEC President Edmund Daukoru told Reuters by telephone on Sunday. "The reference point is the (official) 28 million bpd ceiling." An...

Tuesday, Sen. John F. Kerry (D) Massachusetts demonstrated in the OP/ED Pages of the New York Times in a piece “The Speech the President Should Give” one reason he stills sits at the same Senate desk he’s held down since 1984. Mr. Kerry’s remarks seem a grab bag of initiatives untried by the Bush administration in Iraq for one giant reason: They will not work. With so many initiatives, Mr. Kerry must be duck hunting again with his scatter gun. Where to begin breaking down his missive is the least troubling question presented. Mr. Kerry calls for a U.N. Multinational...