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Jeffrey Epstein's death.  The tweet, by Twitter user Terrence K. Williams, blamed the death on former Secretary of State MORE and former President Clinton and does not provide evidence.  The tweet included the hashtags #ClintonBodyCount and #ClintonCrimeFamily, as well as a photo of both the former president and former secretary of State.

Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced wealthy financier indicted on sex trafficking charges, died overnight by an apparent suicide in his Manhattan jail cell, federal officials said Saturday. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons said in a statement obtained by The Hill that Epstein, 66, was found unresponsive around 6:30 a.m.

apparent suicide while locked up at a federal jail is sparking questions for officials tasked with overseeing his custody as the disgraced financier awaited trial on sex-trafficking charges. Reports of Epstein's death early Saturday left many officials and lawmakers voicing shock and demanding answers, with news that he killed himself coming just weeks after officials investigated a possible suicide attempt. Epstein was apparently taken off suicide watch before he died at the Manhattan jail, with federal authorities in New York and at the Justice Department in Washington expressing alar

Epstein, who was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, reportedly committed suicide, hanging himself in his jail cell, according to reports from the New York Times and ABC News.

Scarborough’s tweet implied that Epstein’s death has the marking of other mysterious deaths linked to the Russian government. “A guy who had information that would have destroyed rich and powerful men’s lives ends up dead in his jail cell,” Scarborough tweeted.

Epstein, a convicted pedophile who befriended numerous politicians and celebrities over the years, was found unresponsive in his cell around 6:30 a.m. at the Metropolitan Correctional Center from “an apparent suicide,” the Department of Justice said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. On July 23, the 66-year-old was found unconscious with marks on his neck.

Epstein died of a suspected suicide after being found unresponsive in his Manhattan Correctional Center cell where he was being held on sex trafficking charges. At approximately 6:30 a.m., Epstein was “found unresponsive in his cell in the Special Housing Unit from an apparent suicide,” the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a news release. Staff conducted life-saving measures and Epstein was transported by ambulance to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

NEW YORK — President Trump began a fund-raising swing through the Hamptons on Friday, a visit that’s spurred threats of boycotts and employee complaints against high-dollar donors for supporting a leader many Democrats say is racist. The president landed just before noon and traveled to the first of two fund-raisers, each closed to media.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democrats in Congress teamed up Friday to oppose what appears to be a Trump administration plan to cut the foreign aid budget. The administration hasn’t announced whether it plans to seek the cut. But the Office of Management and Budget instructed the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development last weekend to freeze unspent money in their budgets.

Senator Elizabeth Warren outlined a series of measures Saturday with an ambitious goal of slashing rates of gun deaths by 80 percent, pitching her ideas for firearms licensing, an assault weapons ban and other major changes ahead of a gun safety event in Iowa that follows mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio. Warren pledged to enact many of her proposals — a combination of executive actions and legislation — within the first 100 days of her presidency if elected, she wrote in a Medium post. Acknowledging her 80 percent goal as daunting, Warren likened it