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Tuesday

Widowed while pregnant with their second son, Gloria Grijalva shares pictures of her husband, U.S. Army veteran Charlie Grijalva, who committed suicide in December 2014. KPBS hide caption

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VA Hospitals Still Struggling With Adding Staff Despite Billions From Choice Act

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Monday

Eliot Cohen, director of the Strategic Studies program, poses a question to U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Sgt. James McCann/Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff hide caption

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Former State Dept. Adviser Paints Gloomy Picture Of Trump's First Week

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Laotian Gen. Vang Pao, seen here calling in air strikes against suspected Communist positions from the Long Cheng Command Post in January 1972, led an army of Hmong tribesmen to fight against Communist insurgents backed by the North Vietnamese. A CIA-led effort that started in 1961 tried to help him in that fight. Bettmann/Bettmann Archive hide caption

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Protesters at Los Angeles International Airport rally Sunday against President Trump's executive order halting entry of refugees and others into the U.S. Amanda Edwards/Getty Images hide caption

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Sunday

An Iraqi soldier on Sunday stands near a makeshift armored car left behind by the Islamic State when they were driven out of the eastern side of Mosul. President Trump has ordered the U.S. military to draw up a new plan for the fight against ISIS. Mstyslav Chernov/AP hide caption

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Activists stage a rally at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Saturday against President Trump's order barring travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption

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5 Questions About The Law And Trump's Immigration Order

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White House senior advisers Jared Kushner (from left), Steve Bannon and national security adviser Michael Flynn are seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Friday. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption

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A Syrian refugee boy plays outside his family's tent in a Syrian refugee camp in the town of Zahrani, Lebanon, in December. Some 1 million Syrians live in Lebanon as refugees, according to the U.N. Mohammed Zaatari/AP hide caption

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Friday

Newspapers in Mexico City on Thursday featured headlines about President Trump's proposed border wall and his insistence that Mexico will foot the bill. Rebecca Blackwell/AP hide caption

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Protesters hold signs near the White House during a protest about President Trump's immigration policies on Wednesday. A proposed presidential action would freeze immigration from seven mostly Muslim countries for security reasons. But the list does not include any of the countries whose nationals have killed Americans in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption

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President Trump, with Defense Secretary James Mattis, shows his signature on an executive action to rebuild the military, during an event at the Pentagon on Friday. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption

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