White House counsel Don McGahn in September. Lawyers for McGahn appeared in federal court on Thursday in a dispute over whether he will have to sit for questions from House investigators conducting the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Saul Loeb/AP hide caption
A Boy Scout wears an Eagle Scot neckerchief during the annual Boy Scouts Parade and Report to State in the House Chambers at the Texas State Capitol, February 2013, in Austin, Texas. Eric Gay/AP hide caption
More than 300 fires broke out in Northern California over the past week, leaving residents like Danielle Bryant waiting for updates and a change in the weather. Lesley McClurg/KQED hide caption
Demonstrators rally in Washington, D.C., in April to protest the Trump administration's efforts to add to 2020 census forms a citizenship question, which has since been blocked by the courts. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Timothy Morrison arrives for a deposition in the House impeachment inquiry on Thursday. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux council member Patricia Iron Cloud (center) watches protesters make speeches against the Keystone XL pipeline. Olivia Reingold/Yellowstone Public Radio hide caption
Jasper Davis gets drinking water from a mountain stream in Martin County, Ky. He says he's one of many in the struggling coal region who have trouble affording their water bill. Sydney Boles/Ohio Valley ReSource hide caption
Leo Lech stands on a pile of wood in his neighbor's yard, which overlooks the back of his former home in Greenwood Village, Colo. In 2015, the home was destroyed by the police during a standoff with a gunman and has since been razed and rebuilt. On Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that the city does not owe Lech any compensation. Kathryn Scott Osler/Denver Post via Getty Images hide caption
Michael Baden, a pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epstein's brother, says that some of Epstein's injuries were more consistent with "homicidal strangulation" than suicide. The disgraced financier, seen here in 2017, was found dead in his jail cell in August. New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP hide caption
A jury awarded Sgt. Keith Wildhaber nearly $20 million in a discrimination lawsuit against the St. Louis County Police Department. Jeff Roberson/AP hide caption
George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who triggered the Russia investigation, filed paperwork on Tuesday to run for the Congressional seat being vacated by Democrat Rep. Katie Hill who is resigning amid an ethics investigation. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
A firefighter battles a wildfire near a ranch in Simi Valley, Calif., on Wednesday. The large new wildfire erupted in wind-whipped Southern California, forcing the evacuation of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and nearby homes. Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP hide caption
Brazilian peppertree, Schinus terebinthifolia, is a relative of poison ivy. It is one of the most damaging invasive weeds of agricultural and natural areas of Florida, Hawaii and Texas. Courtesy of UF/IFAS hide caption
Family members hold photos of victims killed on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610 on Tuesday. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
The Department of State building is shown in April 2019 in Washington, D.C. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption