Ten Democratic senators called on the Senate Banking Committee to hold hearings into the role that financial institutions may have played in enabling Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes.

The pipeline is in danger of closing within months without state approval for a rate increase and other measures, a shutdown that would choke off some crude supplies to at least two San Francisco-area refiners.

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife has been sentenced to 4½ years in prison for selling the powerful New Jersey politician’s influence in exchange for bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car

Conservative activist and pundit Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday, becoming another victim of America’s epidemic of gun violence . Kirk’s death was a tragedy for his friends and family. But the response to it from many political leaders, journalists, and news outlets has whitewashed the substance of Kirk’s activism, which involved an endless geyser of hate, bigotry, and misinformatio…

For the first time in its history, NATO engaged a Russian incursion into allied airspace. Trump shrugged. What happens next? The post Putin Goes There appeared first on Washington Monthly .