Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces new rules allowing transgender individuals to serve openly in the U.S. military, during a news conference at the Pentagon on Thursday. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
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Passengers leave Istanbul Ataturk, Turkey's largest airport, after a suicide bomb attack Tuesday killed at least 42 people and wounded more than 230 people. Defne Karadeniz/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Envoy: 'We're Taking Out' About 1 ISIS Leader Every 3 Days
Passengers walk through a TSA checkpoint area at Los Angeles International Airport. Security experts say making airports safer is a huge challenge because public areas are designed for commerce. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
Glass, debris and overturned furniture are strewn inside a room in the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, one day after it was attacked. Ibrahim Alaguri/AP hide caption
President Obama is interviewed by NPR's Steve Inskeep at the White House on Monday. Mito Habe-Evans/NPR hide caption
Monday
Stacks of boxes containing critical supplies stretch almost as far as the eye can see in this Strategic National Stockpile warehouse. Courtesy of the CDC hide caption
Inside A Secret Government Warehouse Prepped For Health Catastrophes
Thursday
Travelers go through the TSA PreCheck security point at Miami International Airport on June 2. The number of TSA PreCheck applicants has more than doubled owing to record security wait times. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
TSA PreCheck Applications Soar Amid Long Lines At Airports
Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division raise the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945. After more than seven decades, Navy Corpsman John Bradley's name will be replaced in captions with the name of Pvt. 1st Class Harold Schultz. Joe Rosenthal/AP hide caption
Sunday
Club goers embrace at the approximate time one week ago that the Pulse nightclub mass shooting began. The music is turned off on the dance floor to observe a moment of silence at Parliament House, an LGBT nightclub early Sunday in Orlando, Fla. David Goldman/AP hide caption
In Songs, Stories, Latino And LGBT Voices On How The Orlando Attack Feels Personal
Saturday
Authorities say Omar Mateen killed dozens of people inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday. AP hide caption
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Authorities say Omar Mateen killed dozens of people inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday. AP hide caption
Flight deck crew members position F/A-18 jet fighters for a launch from the USS Truman aircraft carrier stationed in the eastern Mediterranean. The crew members wear different colored jerseys to identify their tasks. Sylvia Poggioli/NPR hide caption
Even As It Heads Home, Aircraft Carrier Plays Key Role Fighting ISIS
Wednesday
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about the Orlando shooting at an event in New Hampshire on Monday. Darren McCollester/Getty Images hide caption
At the height of the Cold War, the FBI and the National Security Agency built a secret tunnel beneath the Russian Embassy (shown here in 2013), so that American spies could eavesdrop on what was happening inside. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption