Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp greet each other before a debate last month in Atlanta. John Bazemore/AP hide caption
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President Trump answers a reporter's question about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation during a bill signing ceremony Friday in the Oval Office. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
An aerial view of a neighborhood destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif. Fueled by high winds and low humidity, the wildfire ripped through the town, charring more than 140,000 acres and killing more than 70 people. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
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The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Feb. 19 about whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross can be deposed for the lawsuits over the citizenship question he added to the 2020 census. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
George T. Conway III, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, at the 2017 Easter Egg Roll at the White House. Conway says he no longer feels comfortable being a Republican. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Abraham Lincoln is shown in Richmond, Va., being cheered by former slaves in 1865. Culture Club/Getty Images hide caption
Fire investigators search the debris at a home where an explosion occurred following a gas line failure in September in Lawrence, Mass. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption
A woman sets up tables for hand-counting ballots in Palm Beach County on Thursday. Michele Eve Sandberg/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Smithsonian's National Zoo has released a video of panda Bei Bei rolling around and having a great time in the snow earlier this week. Smithsonian's National Zoo/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
For the first time since women have been allowed to apply, a woman has passed the initial Special Forces Assessment and Selection process, placing her on the path to become the first female Green Beret. Mark Humphrey/AP hide caption
CNN attorney Ted Boutrous delivers remarks outside U.S. District Court following a hearing Wednesday on CNN's case against the White House for stripping a reporter of his press pass. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks with the media after a series of listening sessions about campus sexual violence in July 2017. Among the significant changes is that schools can make it harder to prove allegations. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
Education Dept. Proposes Enhanced Protection For Students Accused Of Sexual Assault
Jennie-O is recalling 45 tons of raw turkey that may be tainted by salmonella. Hormel Foods Corporation/AP hide caption
Maria Butina, a Russian woman who has been in custody since the summer facing charges that she is a foreign agent, may conclude a plea agreement with prosecutors. STR/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Protesters gathered Wednesday in Dublin to denounce the Irish legal system's treatment of women who said they had been sexually assaulted. Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images hide caption
A tsetse fly photographed in the zoological institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Tsetse fly bites transmit the parasitic disease called sleeping sickness. Anton Fric/AP hide caption
The wreckage of a house sitting in Thousand Oaks, Calif., a city ravaged by the Woolsey Fire less than a day after a mass shooting. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images hide caption
Novelist and screenwriter William Goldman has died at the age of 87. Peter Jones/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
Julian Assange speaks to the media from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London last year. Jack Taylor/Getty Images hide caption
Court Filing Suggests Prosecutors Are Preparing Charges Against Julian Assange
Election workers recount votes for several outstanding Florida races on Tuesday at the office of the Broward County supervisor of elections. Christian Colon/Miami Herald/TNS via Getty Images hide caption
Khieu Samphan, left, former Khmer Rouge head of state, stands at the dock in a court room during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Friday. Nhet Sok/AP/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia hide caption
Suzanne Kaksonen and her cockatoo Buddy camp at a makeshift shelter outside a Walmart in Chico, Calif. on Wednesday. Kaksonen, a resident of Paradise, lost her home in the blaze. Noah Berger/AP hide caption
President Trump awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to American Football hall-of-famer Alan Page at the White House on Friday. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption