New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- Ed Markey had been a senator for fifteen years when Seth Moulton told a Boston audience on Monday that the senator's name appears in the Jeffrey Epstein files - and appears there more than once. Markey, who is 80 and seeking a fourth Senate term in the September 1 Democratic primary, called the accusation reprehensible. His name appears in the files, he said, only because he conducted official congressional oversight of institutions connected to Epstein.

the second between Moulton and Markey before voters head to the polls - arrived in the middle of a week when the Epstein files have become something more than a document cache. That same day, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon revealed that the Justice Department's second-r...