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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Senator Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries just announced they are introducing legislation to prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department's payment systems and protect Americans across the country. This is huge.

A Secret Service agent has been accused of sexually assaulting a staffer who works for Vice President Kamala Harris, according to four sources in the Secret Service community. The incident in question took place sometime over the last week during a trip devoted to providing advance security work and planning for a Harris campaign event in Wisconsin that ultimately did not take place. Several Harris staffers and Secret Service agents were in Green Bay to provide advance security and other planning for an upcoming Harris campaign event. The Harris campaign opted to go to Atlanta instead of Wisconsin on Friday,...

OTTAWA -- Greeted at the airport by limousine drivers holding single-letter "B" signs, global luminaries such as Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands began arriving in Ottawa Thursday for the annual gathering of the ultra-secretive Bilderberg Group. Over the next three days, they and other prominent political and business leaders from North America and Europe are expected to discuss issues such as the security threat posed by Iran and the direction of oil markets. The group's discreet approach was evident as attendees arrived at the Ottawa International Airport. Outside the airport, a phalanx of limousines queued...

Media companies, worried that some of their most closely guarded Hollywood secrets could be exposed, are rallying to fight a proposed change to corporate-disclosure rules. The proposed regulation, under consideration by the Securities and Exchange Commission, would require a corporation to publish the salary details of as many as three nonexecutive employees whose total compensation exceeds that of any of its top five officers. Companies currently have to disclose only the pay of the chief executive officer and the next four highest-paid officers. The new rule, which the SEC is expected to decide on later this year, would apply to...