WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The 2019 suicide of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a New York jail cell generated conspiracy theories, fueled by U.S. President Donald Trump's conservative MAGA movement, that he was killed by one of his famous connections.

“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” Trump said in an interview Tuesday with the Wall Street Journal about the sketch, the newspaper reported. Trump, however, has made multiple drawings over the years; at least four were publicly auctioned off during his first term as president.

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A federal judge restores the fired FTC commissioner, dealing a legal blow to Trump's efforts to control independent agencies.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday said the agency’s renovation of its office complex in Washington complies with plans approved by a local commission, disputing a White House suggestion that they had violated the law by deviating from