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» IMF: U.S. shadow banking reaches $25-$35 trillion

U.S. “shadow banks” have reached $25 trillion to $35 trillion in size and are a growing part of overall lending, according to a new report from the International Monetary Fund.

» Secret Service leaked Obama travel plans: Report

A Secret Service agent leaked President Obama’s travel plans to a staffer on Mitt Romney’s campaign in the days leading up to the 2012 election, a former aide to Romney said.

» Byron York: GOP 2016 — What about Bobby Jindal?

Jindal is smart, experienced, full of ideas, a solid conservative. So why is he so far back?

»Exclusive: Agent provided false information, superior didn’t report it

An agent in a Florida Secret Service field office misled supervisors about his use of an iPad, but they failed to document the misstatements, according to a source with first-hand information about the case.

» Kansas fight: DC vs. Harry Reid

Independent businessman Greg Orman is mounting a campaign that builds on broad frustration with Washington dysfunction, while Republican Sen. Pat Roberts is trying to tie Orman to the Democratic majority in the Senate.

» Editorial: Obamacare’s website still faces hurdles as year two approaches

A year later, most of Obamacare’s outwardly noticeable technological frustrations are gone. But the Department of Health and Human Services has not yet fixed major structural and security issues on the back-end, and testing for some of these only begins this month.

» MANHATTAN MOMENT: A wake-up call for public pension systems

The public pension system’s integrity must be protected with common-sense reforms that acknowledge the reality of the constantly growing pension gap. The ideal reform plan would be a switch from defined-benefit to defined-contribution pension plans.

» Michael Barone: Mapping the disaster caused by granting mortgages to non-creditworthy Hispanics

Some liberal analysts like to speak of credit standards as somehow embodying racial (or anti-Hispanic) prejudice, but this is obviously not so.

» Timothy P. Carney: Democratic leaders, An industry lobby, and a non-profit walk into an election

Tom Kiernan is CEO of the American Wind Energy Association and the treasurer and a board member of the League of Conservation Voters. Integrating the non-profit groups like LCV with the industry lobbies like AWEA has been a chief goal that Kiernan brought to AWEA.

» Marine who bailed out of aircraft in Persian Gulf presumed dead

The missing crew member, who is presumed lost at sea, is the first U.S. casualty of the military operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.