PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 2008 campaign raised roughly $40 million from the financial sector, 50 percent more than did Republican John McCain. But now, it seems, Wall Street is suffering a massive case of buyer's remorse. Irked by the president's anti-business rhetoric and by financial regulations he and a...

RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER Vladimir Putin must be disappointed in his police force. True, Moscow police responded roughly on Tuesday when hundreds tried to demonstrate peacefully in favor of freedom of assembly. But the police apparently didn't beat anyone with clubs, as Mr. Putin had urged them to do....

DID ALAN SIMPSON'S mother never tell him to count to 10 before saying -- or e-mailing -- something he might regret? Apparently not. The Wyoming Republican, a former senator and now co-chair of President Obama's fiscal responsibility commission, put, as he acknowledged, a size 15 foot in his mouth...