Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Brazil, on Aug. 14. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters hide caption
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President Trump said he would respond later Friday to China's latest tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. goods. "Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China," he tweeted. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
The Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York where Jeffrey Epstein took his own life. The Justice Department revealed that a psychologist had approved removing him from a suicide watch. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption
Ashley Tabaddor, a federal immigration judge in Los Angeles, is the President of the National Association of Immigration Judges. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
Court orders that the state of Idaho pay for gender confirmation surgery for Adree Edmo, a transgender inmate who was incarcerated at the Idaho State Correctional Institution, pictured above. Heath Druzin/Boise State Public Radio hide caption
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