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President Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 5. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
In this courtroom artist's sketch, defendant Keith Raniere (center) sits with his attorneys, Paul DerOhannesian (left) and Marc Agnifilo during closing arguments Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y. Elizabeth Williams/AP hide caption
The Environmental Protection Agency's final version of its Affordable Clean Energy rule is supported by the coal industry, but it's not clear that it will be enough to stop more coal-fired power plants from closing. J. David Ake/AP hide caption
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Workers makes shoes at a factory in Jinjiang, in southeast China's Fujian province. Nearly all shoes sold in the U.S. are foreign-made. China's share has declined, but it's still a major source. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Why The American Shoe Disappeared And Why It's So Hard To Bring It Back
This oblique view of the Himalayan landscape was captured by a KH-9 Hexagon satellite on Dec. 20, 1975, on the border between eastern Nepal and Sikkim, India. Josh Maurer/LDEO hide caption
Jeelan, 11, the day after being rescued from an ISIS family who had held her captive for the past two years. She says she doesn't remember her Yazidi family. "I want to go back to Um Ali," she says, referring to the Iraqi woman who had been pretending to be her mother in a detention camp for ISIS families. "Um Ali is my real family." Jane Arraf/NPR hide caption
'I Want To Go Back': The Yazidi Girls Who Did Not Want To Be Rescued From ISIS
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Fanny Law, seen in a 2017 interview with The South China Morning Post, is a member of Hong Kong's Executive Council. She apologized on Wednesday for underestimating the backlash to a controversial now-withdrawn extradition bill. K. Y. Cheng/South China Morning Post via Getty Images hide caption
Patients operated on by surgeons who display rude or unprofessional behavior toward colleagues tend to have higher rates of post-surgical complications. FangXiaNuo/Getty Images hide caption
President Trump speaks Tuesday during a rally at the Amway Center in Orlando, Fla., where he announced his candidacy for a second presidential term. President Trump is set to run against a wide-open Democratic field of candidates, which he is trying to define as extreme. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Joy Harjo will become the 23rd poet laureate of the United States, making her the first Native American to hold the position. Shawn Miller/Library of Congress hide caption
The White House will honor economist Art Laffer with a Medal of Freedom. Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption
From A Napkin To A White House Medal — The Path Of A Controversial Economic Idea
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. She is the sponsor of H.R. 40, the bill to establish a commission to study reparations. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Diamond brooch with five different cuts of diamonds (left), Shah Jahan's dagger and The Mirror of Paradise is a 52.58-carat diamond ring are part of an auction expected to fetch more than $115 million. Christie's hide caption
Rohingya refugees gather in the "no man's land" behind Myanmar's barbed-wire-lined border in Maungdaw district, Rakhine state, in 2018. Some 700,000 refugees fled into Bangladesh following a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military in 2017. Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Protesters demonstrate outside the Chief Executive Office on Monday in Hong Kong. Anthony Kwan/Getty Images hide caption
A tugboat operator secures a floating razor wire security fence during an emergency response exercise at the Kinder Morgan Inc. Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, last September. A new expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline would significantly expand tanker traffic in the region. Darryl Dyck/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Former White House communications director Hope Hicks arrives for a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has been under pressure from President Trump to lower interest rates. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
Flames consume a home in Paradise, Calif. PG&E will pay the town and other jurisdictions $1 billion for wildfire damage caused by its equipment. Noah Berger/AP hide caption
California Utility PG&E To Pay $1 Billion To Local Governments For Wildfire Damage
A stray polar bear is seen in the industrial city of Norilsk, Russia, on Monday. Irina Yarinskaya/Zapolyarnaya Pravda/Reuters hide caption
