Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday. A Pennsylvania grand jury says its investigation of clergy sexual abuse identified more than 1,000 child victims in records in six Roman Catholic dioceses. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on March 03, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Inga Kjer/Photothek via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on August 16, 2018. Pool/Getty Images hide caption
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St. John of God in McKees Rocks, just outside of Pittsburgh. Kathleen Davis/WESA hide caption
Brett Kavanaugh sits behind independent counsel Kenneth Starr as Starr testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on the possibility of former President Bill Clinton's impeachment in 1998. David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images hide caption
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (left) and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the city and county of Los Angeles, plus four other cities, were joining California's lawsuit over the 2020 census citizenship question in May. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
A police officer speaks to a man walking on New Haven Green, Wednesday, Aug. 15, in New Haven, Conn. More than a 100 people fell ill from suspected drug overdoses linked to a batch of synthetic marijuana laced with fubinaca. Bill Sikes/AP hide caption
The Satanic Temple unveils its statue of Baphomet, a winged-goat creature, at a rally in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday. The group wants to install the statue on Capitol grounds because a monument of the Ten Commandments was placed there in 2017. Hannah Grabenstein/AP hide caption
This still frame from a video released earlier this week by Cal Fire shows the "fire tornado" forming over Lake Keswick Estates near Redding, Calif., on July 26. Cal Fire via AP hide caption
Esteban Santiago, seen leaving the Broward County jail for a hearing in January 2017, has been sentenced to life in prison for a shooting rampage at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Lynne Sladky/AP hide caption
House Majority PAC has unveiled a campaign ad taking aim at top House Republican leaders. Screenshot by NPR/YouTube hide caption
Michael Vigil, an oil contractor from Douglas, Wyo., traveled 250 miles to Denver to have his aortic valve replaced in May. He said he would have preferred his local hospital do the procedure. Courtesy of Michael Vigil hide caption
A member of the Myanmar security forces stands guard near a military transport helicopter in Rakhine state last September, about a month into the bloody crackdown on the country's Rohingya Muslim population. STR/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The company behind a privately funded passenger train line in Florida has proposed a route that would connect Orlando and Tampa. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Beto O'Rourke speaks at the Texas Democratic Convention in June. The winner of the party's U.S. Senate primary has embraced progressive positions — at times including impeaching President Trump. Richard W. Rodriguez/AP hide caption
The New York University Langone Medical Center is seen in midtown Manhattan in 2015. The university's school of medicine says it will make tuition free for all students. Brendan McDermid/Reuters hide caption
Pilar Navarro, now 68, has sought legal action against a Catholic hospital in Madrid where she claims a baby was secretly stolen from her in 1973. Here she is seen in a photo in 1974 holding a second baby daughter who was not taken from her. Courtesy of Pilar Navarro hide caption
People move past a flooded road in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where monsoon rains have destroyed roads and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless. Pradeep Kumar Thrissur Kerala /AP hide caption
Omarosa Manigault Newman, who appeared on NBC on Monday, released excerpts of a tape on Thursday that she said involved an offer of a Trump campaign job in return for her silence. Zach Pagano/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images hide caption
Incoming CEO of United States Olympic Committee Sarah Hirshland (3rd L) listens during a Senate hearing in July. The hearing was to focus on changes made by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), USA Gymnastics (USAG), and Michigan State University (MSU) to protect Olympic and amateur athletes from abuse. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
King Bass sits and watches the Holy Fire burn from on top of his parents' car as his sister, Princess, rests her head on his shoulder last week in Lake Elsinore, Calif. More than a thousand firefighters battled to keep a raging Southern California forest fire from reaching foothill neighborhoods. Patrick Record/AP hide caption
Aretha Franklin, pictured in 1968, has died. Known as the Queen of Soul, she recorded 17 top 10 singles. Express Newspapers/Getty Images hide caption
