QUICK HITS

1 Oil production cut possible: The oil-producing countries of the OPEC cartel are calling for a deep production cut of 1.5 million barrels per day to support prices that are sagging due to the spread of the coronavirus. The proposal assumes nonmember allies including major producer Russia will agree; they take up the proposal today.

2 Lawsuit dismissed: A federal judge Wednesday dismissed a $50 million lawsuit filed by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democratic presidential candidate, that accused Google of infringing on her free speech when it briefly suspended her advertising account last year.

3 U.N. chief dies: Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, a reluctant compromise choice for United Nations secretary-general who astonished the diplomatic world by brokering peace agreements in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America as the Cold War thawed in the late 1980s and early ’90s, died Wednesday, according to the Peruvian Foreign Ministry. He was 100.

4 Wiretap ban: A secretive federal court Wednesday effectively barred FBI officials involved in the wiretapping of a former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page from appearing before it in other cases, the latest fallout from an internal inquiry into the bureau’s surveillance of the aide.

5 Mexico policy: While insisting that a policy that has forced 60,000 asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico violates United States law, a federal appeals court Wednesday granted the Trump administration’s request to keep the “Remain in Mexico” restrictions in effect until March 11 for review by the Supreme Court.