U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitiello speaks to reporters about choosing four contractors to build the first prototypes of the border wall. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption
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Thursday
Erik Prince, then-chairman of the Prince Group LLC and Blackwater USA, testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in 2007. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
A U.S. Marine looks out as an evening storm gathers above an outpost near Kunjak, in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province. Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters/Viking hide caption
Tuesday
Passers-by look at the North Korean missile's path over Japan, displayed on a huge screen in Tokyo on Wednesday. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he and President Trump have agreed to increase pressure on Kim Jong Un's regime after it launched a ballistic missile over the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Monday
The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain moored pier side at Changi naval base in Singapore. Grady T. Fontana/AP hide caption
Friday
Outgoing National Security Council adviser Sebastian Gorka participates in a discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference in February. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
Thursday
The Navy says it has identified the body of Electronics Technician 3rd Class Kenneth Aaron Smith, 22, from New Jersey. The Navy on Thursday named all 10 sailors who went missing when the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker near Singapore on Monday. U.S. Navy via AP hide caption
U.S. Navy Suspends Sea Search For Missing Sailors From USS McCain
Army Spc. Kevin Bogucki, left, of the 82nd Airborne Division prepares for a training jump last month at Fort Bragg, N.C. Matt Couch/WUNC hide caption
A congressional proposal aims to allow federal authorities to share more information — and to do so more quickly — with state officials about threats to their election systems. Laura Segall/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
A Syrian girl walks through an empty, ruined house in Raqqa earlier this month. Many civilians like her have no choice but to stay in the war-ravaged city despite the danger, either because they've been trapped by ISIS fighters or because they don't have the money to pay smugglers. Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Former FBI Director Comey has tried to keep a low public profile since his surprise firing by President Trump in May. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
The USS John S. McCain was left with a hole on its port side after a collision with oil tanker earlier this week, one of three such incidents this summer. Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images hide caption