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The remains of a burning vehicle at the Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike early Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. The Pentagon said Thursday that the U.S. military killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, at the direction of President Donald Trump.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced an impeachment inquiry into President Trump on September 24, 2019 at the Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
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US Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hold a press conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on July 15, 2019 to address remarks made by President Donald Trump.
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US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman announces charges against financier Jeffery Epstein on July 8, 2019 in New York City.
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Protesters demonstrate in front of the US Supreme Court during the March For Life in Washington, DC, January 27, 2017.
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Central American migrants stand at the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas. The migrants turned themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents, seeking political asylum in the United States.
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, center, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., left, and former Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., meet in July 2018. Kyl is serving as Kavanaugh's "Sherpa" as he introduces him to members of Congress.
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President Donald Trump presides over a meeting about immigration with Republican and Democrat members of Congress, including (L-R) Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX), Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ), Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin (D-IL), House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) at the White House on Tuesday.
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Congressional Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) hold a news conference critical of the Republican tax and budget plan at the U.S. Capitol Oct. 4, 2017 in which they called on President Trump to keep his campaign promises to not cut entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicaid.
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U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at the Vestavia Hills Public library, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017, in Vestavia Hills, Ala.
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Investigators work the scene on Monday after a mass shooting at a music festival near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday in Las Vegas.
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Donald Trump Jr. is interviewed by host Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel television program the day he posted a series of email messages to Twitter showing him accepting help from what was described to him as a Russian government effort to aid his father's campaign with damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
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Former FBI director James Comey speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, June 8, 2017, in Washington, D.C.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer calls on a reporter during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, on Wednesday.
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In this August 2016 photo, Stephen Bannon, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign chairman, attends Trump's Hispanic advisory roundtable meeting in New York.
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A gender neutral sign is posted outside a bathrooms at Oval Park Grill on May 11, 2016 in Durham, North Carolina.
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