Questions persist about how Jeffrey Epstein, who once moved among the world's elite, was able to avoid federal prosecution for so long. A timeline suggests some answers.

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville on Thursday reminded Fox News viewers of a name that’s rarely heard on the right-wing network: Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender who was once close with President Donald Trump.

During Mr. Trump's first term, his labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, resigned following criticism of his handling of Epstein's 2008 plea deal when he was a federal prosecutor in Florida. Epstein served 13 months in a jail work-release program after he was originally accused of sexually abusing dozens of girls and young women.

A Florida federal judge on Wednesday declined to release additional grand jury documents from the criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, marking the first roadblock in the Justice Department’s efforts to quell the public backlash over the handling of the case.

President Donald Trump denied that he was briefed on his name appearing in the case files of Jeffrey Epstein, seeming contradicting a recent report in The Wall Street Journal that he was. After Air Force One landed in Scotland on Friday,

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President Trump, several times speaking to reporters Friday morning, said he doesn't want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. "People should really focus on how well the country is doing,