White House counsel Don McGahn in September. Lawyers for McGahn appeared in federal court on Thursday in a dispute over whether he will have to sit for questions from House investigators conducting the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Saul Loeb/AP hide caption
A convoy of U.S. military vehicles, arriving from northern Iraq, drives past an oil pump jack in the countryside of Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli on Oct. 26. Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Human Rights Watch says one of the deadly raids happened in the Rodat district of Afghanistan's Nangarhar province in late October 2018. Residents gathered there two days later. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption
The late ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an undated picture released this week by the Pentagon. Defense.gov hide caption
Former President Barack Obama speaks to guests at the Obama Foundation Summit on Tuesday in Chicago. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
Identification information on Baghdadi is displayed by McKenzie at the Pentagon. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
Lawmakers from the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees are eager to hear from President Trump's third national security adviser, John Bolton. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Leo Lech stands on a pile of wood in his neighbor's yard, which overlooks the back of his former home in Greenwood Village, Colo. In 2015, the home was destroyed by the police during a standoff with a gunman and has since been razed and rebuilt. On Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that the city does not owe Lech any compensation. Kathryn Scott Osler/Denver Post via Getty Images hide caption
Tim Morrison, a key aide on the White House's National Security Council, is expected to leave his post imminently. Sarah Silbiger/Reuters hide caption
Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday for his confirmation hearing to be the new U.S. ambassador to Russia. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
A U.S. military vehicle drives past an oil pump jack in the countryside of Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli. President Trump is leaving some U.S. troops in Syria, with the goal of controlling Syria's oil fields. But legal experts say exploiting the oil could amount to pillaging — a war crime. Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Catherine Croft, a specialist on Ukraine with the State Department, is one of two witnesses meeting behind closed doors with impeachment investigators on Wednesday. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
State Department employee Christopher Anderson is testifying behind closed doors on Capitol Hill on Wednesday about the Trump administration's policy on Ukraine. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
Prosecutors say Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul, both Kentucky Republicans, were targeted in a doxxing scheme in which a former Senate staffer hacked into government computers to expose the personal information of lawmakers. Zach Gibson/AP hide caption
U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff walks to the closed-door deposition of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption