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Assistant US Attorney Arlo Devlin-Brown said in a letter to judge Brenda P. Murray yesterday that the administrative proceeding of SAC Capital Advisors LP founder Steven A. Cohen should be on hold until all criminal cases of his employees have been resolved.

In what seemed to be yet another form of censorship of free speech, the official Xinhua News Agency said that the Chinese government has launched a crackdown on mobile messaging platforms like WeChat to curb rumors and other information related to terrorism, violence and pornography.

An energy analyst wonders why the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration was quiet about its two additional conditions placed in the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline of TransCanada Corp.