Google CEO Sundar Pichai arrives to testify during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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(From left) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Paul Ryan, President Trump, Vice President Pence, President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at the White House last December. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
After being stalled in negotiations for months, mostly around disputes over SNAP, the farm bill the conference report has been released. Pictured above corn is harvested in Walnut, Illinois. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
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Former Texas GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold denies allegations from a former aide that he sexually harassed her, but he used taxpayer funds to settle a claim. Congress is working to change the current system and make lawmakers personally liable. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
A U.S. Navy plane flies above a Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel during search and rescue efforts last week off the coast of Kochi prefecture, in southern Japan. Kyodo via Reuters hide caption
Time magazine is printing four covers for its "Person of the Year" issue, featuring Jamal Khashoggi, top left, members of the Capital Gazette newspaper staff, top right, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo (via their wives), bottom left, and Maria Ressa. Time Magazine/AP hide caption
More Americans would prefer that President Trump compromise on funding for his border wall rather than risk a government shutdown, a new poll finds. Rebecca Blackwell/AP hide caption
French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a special address to the nation on Monday, his first public comments after four weeks of nationwide "yellow vest" (gilet jaune) protests. Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Google+ will shut down in April instead of August, after a new data breach was found in its software. Google+ /Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Maria Butina, left, has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors after she was charged with being an unregistered foreign agent. Her onetime mentor, Alexander Torshin, right, is reportedly retiring. Pavel Ptitsin/AP hide caption
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Yemeni militiamen stand guard at the port in Mukalla, on the southern coast of Yemen. Many factions are involved in Yemen's civil war. The U.S. has supported Saudi Arabia, which has waged a bombing campaign against Houthi rebels. But the U.S. Congress is putting pressure on the Trump administration to end its support of a war that's widely seen as a stalemate and a humanitarian disaster. Jon Gambrell/AP hide caption
A refugee transit center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, in a photo taken last year. Two class action lawsuits are seeking injunctions to transfer refugees held there to Australia and award damages to them. Aziz Abdul/AP hide caption
Protesters disrupted a U.S. side event on the future importance of fossil fuels at the COP24 conference in Katowice, Poland, on Monday. Separately, U.S. negotiators are helping to write a rule book that will help countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Frank Jordans/AP hide caption
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A NASA illustration depicts the positions of both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, now outside the heliosphere. Voyager 1 left the heliosphere in August 2012, while Voyager 2 left at a different location last month. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption
Planned Parenthood opened its new headquarters in Washington, D.C., in September. The Supreme Court declined to take up a key case that is a big win for Planned Parenthood. Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption
The Union Jack flies above the Palace of Westminster, the seat of Parliament in London. U.K. lawmakers are expected to decide soon the fate of a draft Brexit deal negotiated between Prime Minister Theresa May and the European Union. Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on the South Lawn of the White House in August 2017. President Trump announced Saturday Kelly would be leaving the administration by the end of the year. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
Roger the kangaroo gained fame for his muscular build. He died at 12 years old. Courtesy of The Kangaroo Sanctuary hide caption
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the new mayor of Freetown in Sierra Leone, speaks at the 2018 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City. "For decades, there had been no structure, no focused thinking of a strategy for the city," she says. "The way my brain works is with plans. I have to have a to-do list." Riccardo Savi/Getty Images hide caption