Tracy Mumford

The Oversight Committee took an extraordinary step in recommending that Bill and Hillary Clinton be charged with criminal contempt for refusing to testify in its Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

The Clintons have accused the Republican chair of the committee of targeting them for political purposes, and they've said that while they're willing to be interviewed under oath in private, they would not agree to testify publicly.

After a heated, day-long debate yesterday, multiple Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the effort to hold them in contempt for that.

Some said that Bill Clinton in particular should answer questions about the time he spent socializing with Epstein.

Their votes reflected a reluctance to be seen as defending anyone associated with the convicted sex offender.

Other Democrats, however, said that the committee was applying a double standard and not doing enough to investigate President Trump's ties to Epstein or to press the Justice Department to release all of the Epstein files, which it has still failed to do.

The full House of Representatives will now consider whether or not to refer the Clintons to the Department of Justice for prosecution.

If convicted, they could face up to a $100,000 fine and one year in prison.

In Iran, government officials have declared that the widespread protests, which some had thought might take down the authoritarian regime, have been crushed.

Iran's prosecutor general said, quote, The sedition is over now, and the country's foreign minister has claimed that the violence on our streets has subsided.

The movement had kicked off last month in response to the country's collapsing economy and led to weeks of unrest, with huge crowds of Iranians taking to the streets, burning government buildings, and shouting, death to the dictator.

Authorities responded with a brutal crackdown.

At some points, videos showed them opening fire on unarmed protesters.

By one estimate, more than 4,500 people were killed.

But the government cut Internet access, making it difficult to get a full account of what's happened.

Now, Iranian officials have vowed to punish people who they say were responsible for the protests.

They've called them terrorists and provocateurs, claiming they were backed by foreign governments like the U.S.

and Israel.

And finally, anyone who has applied for a job recently probably knows the feeling of hitting submit and wondering if AI is just going to filter your resume out before a human ever sees it.

Maybe you've even gotten a rejection 10 minutes after applying and wondered, wait, why?