Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing Sept. 6. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
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Lt.Ryan Snyder, who works at the Champaign County jail in Illinois, says it's hard for any such facility to provide the kind of one-on-one mental health treatment many inmates need. Christine Herman/Illinois Public Media hide caption
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Protesters disrupt construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in early September. Trespassing near pipelines is now a felony offense in Louisiana, punishable by up to five years in jail. Travis Lux/WWNO hide caption
Tougher Laws On Pipeline Protests Face Test In Louisiana
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In this file photo taken on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, Maria Butina walks with Alexander Torshin, then a member of the Russian upper house of parliament, in Moscow, Russia. Pavel Ptitsin/AP hide caption
Maria Butina, Accused Of Being Russian Agent, Has Long History Of Urging Protest
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Wendy and Norm Alvarez lost their home to the Carr Fire earlier this summer. Low-income people often face more challenges when it comes to recovering from a natural disaster. Sam Harnett/KQED hide caption
'Humbled To Ask For Help' — Low-Income Communities Struggle To Recover After A Wildfire
Columbia Gas employee Brian Jones shines a flashlight so his partner, can shut off the gas in a home on Sept. 14, in Andover, Mass. On Tuesday, lawyers filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of thousands of residents impacted by last Thursday's gas explosions and fires triggered by a problem with a gas line that feeds homes in several communities north of Boston. Winslow Townson/AP hide caption
Tesla is under investigation after its chief executive, Elon Musk, announced that he was considering taking the company private. Chris Carlson/AP hide caption
A former Sesame Street writer stepped into a longtime debate, saying he considered Bert and Ernie to be a gay couple. Getty Images hide caption
A church is surrounded by floodwaters from Hurricane Florence on Monday, in Conway, S.C. Sean Rayford/Getty Images hide caption
A flooded farm stands next to the Lumber River on Monday in this aerial photograph taken after Hurricane Florence hit Lumberton, N.C. Charles Mostoller/Bloomberg /Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Florence Engulfs Hog Farms And Chicken Houses, Thrashing North Carolina Agriculture
The ACLU, a law firm and a labor union filed a complaint against Facebook Tuesday over what they say were job ads that excluded woman and older people. Noah Berger/AP hide caption
Chief Justice John G. Roberts had blocked a lower court order that would have required politically active nonprofits to disclose their donors. But on Tuesday the full Supreme Court overturned his stay. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
When she was 13, Linda Kay Klein joined an evangelical church that valued sexual purity. She recounts her experiences in the memoir Pure. Jami Saunders Photography/Simon & Schuster hide caption
Memoirist: Evangelical Purity Movement Sees Women's Bodies As A 'Threat'
If patients are obese, their physicians should refer them to behavior-based weight loss programs or offer their own, a national panel of experts says. Yet many doctors aren't having the necessary conversations with their patients. Tetra Images/Getty Images hide caption
Sudanese workers offload U.S. aid destined for South Sudan from the World Food Programme (WFP) at Port Sudan on March 19, 2017. Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A municipal employee (right) talks to a pedestrian next to a controversial street urinal installed on the Seine river banks of Île de la Cité, Paris, in August. Michel Spingler/AP hide caption
Physicians face long hours, frustrating paperwork and sometimes difficult patients. But researchers aren't so clear on whether burnout is the right word to describe their problems. ERproductions Ltd/Blend Images/Getty Images hide caption
People work at tables inside the WeWork co-working space in Washington, D.C., in 2013. The company pioneered the office rental sector known as co-working, where users lease shared workspace by the month. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Under Pressure, WeWork Backs Down On Employee Noncompete Requirements
Denise Mueller-Korenek rode a custom bike at an average of 183.932 miles per hour – shattering a world record that had stood since 1995. Matt Ben Stone/Action Plus via Getty Images hide caption
Homes in Conway, S.C., are surrounded by floodwaters from Hurricane Florence on Monday. Many rivers in the Carolinas are approaching record flood stages and their levels will continue to rise through the week. Sean Rayford/Getty Images hide caption
Shadrach Mugoya Levi, right, at his recent wedding in Uganda. From left: his son Oren Levi and Moshe Isiko. Merissa Nathan Gerson hide caption
President Donald Trump gestures as he answers a reporter's question during a news conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda, in the East Room of the White House Tuesday. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption