"The president would not recommend a special prosecutor in the Epstein case," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said July 17.

Trump previously had a relationship with the late disgraced financier, who died in a jail cell in 2019 as he awaited a trial on sex trafficking charges.

President Donald Trump will not recommend appointing a special prosecutor in the Jeffrey Epstein case, his press secretary said on Thursday, amid pressure from some of his supporters and renewed public scrutiny on the convicted sex offender's connections to powerful figures.

P resident Trump "would not recommend" that Attorney General Pam Bondi appoint a special prosecutor to handle the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

Dajuan Burns, facing attempted murder charges, struck assistant county prosecutor Thomas Rovito in the face before being removed from the courtroom.

Millsap ISD educators, including ex-superintendent Edie Martin, indicted on charges tied to the mistreatment of an autistic student in Parker County.

Anthony Frederick Brillante II, 36, was convicted on Friday of attempted murder of a U.S. government employee, solicitation of a crime of violence and witness tampering. Brillante is expected to receive several more years in prison at his sentencing in early October before U.S. District Judge Melissa Damian in Fort Lauderdale federal court.