President Obama makes his way across the tarmac Monday to greet well-wishers upon arrival at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaking in Cleveland last week. She has said that nothing in her emails was marked classified. David Richard/AP hide caption
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis speaks to supporters on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort last month. Timothy D. Easley/AP hide caption
Frazier Glenn Cross Jr. (left), seen here at a hearing in Johnson County court in Olathe, Kan., last December, is a self-described white supremacist who killed three people in two attacks last spring. Rich Sugg/AP hide caption
A file photo provided by the Sedgwick County, Kan., Clerk's Office shows Terry Lee Loewen, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday. AP hide caption
Hillary Clinton perusing her mobile phone as secretary of state after an address to the Security Council at United Nations in 2012. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
Line-sitters waited for hours outside Franklin Barbecue in Austin, Texas, on July 3. Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon/KUT hide caption
Despite being declared illegal in the city, Uber has been operating in Philadelphia for 10 months. NPR hide caption
Shannon Miles appears in a Texas courtroom in Houston. He has been charged with capital murder in the death of a Harris County sheriff's deputy. Pat Sullivan/AP hide caption
Ryan Peck repossesses vehicles in Corpus Christi, Texas. His business is seeing the upside of the downturn in oil prices: a spike in the number of expensive trucks bought by oilfield workers during an earlier boom. Mose Buchele/KUT hide caption
Wayne Dyer attends the premiere of the film Ambition to Meaning: Finding Your Life's Purpose at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles in 20 Michael Germana/Landov hide caption
Dr. David Burkons holds the licensing certificates that allowed him to open a clinic that provides medical and surgical abortions. It took about 18 extra months of inspections, he says, to get the approval to offer surgical abortions. Sarah Jane Tribble/WCPN hide caption
Bucking Trend, Ohio Doctor Opens Clinic That Provides Abortion Services
Donald Trump owns this Trump Tower building at 725 Fifth Ave. in New York City. It's one of only a handful he owns in the city, though 17 buildings there bear his name. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
When You See 'Trump' On A Building, It Might Not Be What You Think
"I would have thought the top drug kingpins in the country wouldn't be the beneficiaries of what we're trying to do here," Judge Royce C. Lamberth said, referring to sentencing reform efforts and guidelines that were designed to help nonviolent drug offenders secure early release. Charles Dharapak/AP hide caption