Clockwise from top left: Rudy Giuliani, President Trump, former Vice President Joe Biden, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. AFP/Getty Images and Getty Images hide caption
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Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan holds a news conference in June. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch (center) arrives on Capitol Hill Friday for congressional testimony. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
President Trump's accounting firm was ordered Friday by a federal appeals court in Washington to turn over some of his financial records to the House Oversight Committee. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Tal Abyad on Thursday on the second day of Turkey's military operation against Kurdish forces. President Trump's decision to pull back U.S. forces from the area has been viewed as giving Turkey a green light for the operation and opened him up to condemnation from within the GOP. Bulent Kilic /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Marie Yovanovitch meets with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 6. The former ambassador to Ukraine has become a central figure in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Mikhail Palinchak/AP hide caption
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U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office at the White House October 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced a 'phase one' partial trade deal with China. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
Associates of President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have been arrested on campaign finance charges. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
Support for the House impeachment inquiry into President Trump is on the rise. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff of California speaks to the media last month. Schiff is leading the charge in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has resisted calls to convene a full House vote to initiate an impeachment inquiry. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event on Wednesday in Rochester, N.H. Elise Amendola/AP hide caption
Justice Neil Gorsuch (left), with Justice Brett Kavanaugh, asked many of the key questions in Tuesday's case before the U.S. Supreme Court that centered on whether employers can fire gay or transgender workers. Doug Mills/AP hide caption
President Trump has said his concerns about corruption in Ukraine were behind his request to that country's president to investigate the Biden family. But anti-corruption advocates say Trump's administration has been weak on the issue. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
Presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke talks to NPR Host Michel Martin and voters Ruben Sandoval and Connie Martinez. NPR hide caption
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President Trump speaks to reporters outside the White House on Oct. 4. The White House sent a letter to House Democrats saying it would not cooperate with requests as part of their impeachment inquiry. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Aimee Stephens is at the center of the debate over whether employers can fire workers for being LGBTQ. The Supreme Court will hear her case Tuesday. Paul Sancya/AP hide caption
President Trump, joined by Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, in Brussels, Belgium. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
Then-Attorney General Edwin Meese III appears before the congressional committee investigating the Iran-Contra scandal in 1987. John Duricka/AP hide caption
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., (left) and Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., released a new report on how Russians used social media targeting to meddle with the 2016 election. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption