In this image provided by the US Navy, the USS Porter fires a Tomahawk cruise missile from the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, April 7. On the orders of President Donald Trump, US warships launched 60 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian government air base. US officials said the base was home to warplanes that carried out a chemical attack against civilians earlier in the week.
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President Trump pauses during a White House news conference on Wednesday, April 5. Trump spoke about the suspected chemical attack in Syria, blaming Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and saying it had "crossed a lot of lines for me."
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During a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, April 5, US Ambassador Nikki Haley holds up photos of children who were killed in the suspected chemical attack in Syria. Dozens of people were killed, according to multiple activist groups. "When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action," Haley said. "For the sake of the victims, I hope the rest of the council is finally willing to do the same."
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Steve Bannon, President Trump's chief strategist, left, walks with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus before a lunch with Trump and the Egyptian President on Monday, April 3. Bannon has been removed from his permanent seat at the National Security Council, multiple sources told CNN. The move is a demotion for Bannon and a win for H.R. McMaster, who Trump picked in February to lead the council after Michael Flynn was fired for misleading Vice President Mike Pence about undisclosed contacts he had with Russian operatives.
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Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, gets into a car Thursday, April 6, after recusing himself from the investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 elections. Nunes blamed a series of ethics complaints filed against him. Some key House Democrats -- including US Rep. Adam Schiff, the Intelligence Committee's top Democrat -- called on Nunes to recuse himself after a recent trip he made to the White House.
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President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping sit together at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Thursday, April 6. Joining them were first ladies Melania Trump, left, and Peng Liyuan, right.
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US Sen. Bob Corker talks with reporters before the Senate voted to confirm Neil Gorsuch as the next Supreme Court justice on Friday, April 7. The vote was 54-45, mostly along party lines. Three Democrats -- Joe Manchin, Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Donnelly -- sided with the GOP majority.
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Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, chats with a US service member in Iraq on Tuesday, April 4. Kushner, who is also Trump's son-in-law, was invited to Iraq by Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a news conference in Washington on Friday, April 7. The Senate triggered the "nuclear option" that allowed Republicans to break a Democratic filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. The controversial change to Senate rules, made along partisan lines, allows filibusters of Supreme Court picks to be broken with 51 votes rather than 60.
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Annie Glenn, the widow of astronaut John Glenn, watches US Marines carry her husband's casket at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, April 6. Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, died in December at age 95.
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Roberto Beristain, who came to the United States as an undocumented migrant 20 years ago, sits at the Migrant House shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Wednesday, April 5. Beristain was deported last month. He owns a restaurant in Indianapolis with his wife, Helen, a US citizen who voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election. "I think our President is going to keep all the good people here. He is not going to tear up families," she told CNN affiliate WSBT after her husband was detained in March. Today she feels betrayed, family attorney Adam Ansari said. CNN calls to Helen Beristain were not returned.
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Several hundred activists gathered at Union Square Park in New York on Friday, April 7, for a rally and march to oppose US intervention in the ongoing Syrian civil war. The United States launched a military strike Thursday on a Syrian government air base in response to a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians earlier in the week. Tensions have risen as some oppose and some support this measure.
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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer gestures after handing over a check Monday, April 3, to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, left, and Tyrone Brandyburg, the superintendent of the Harper's Ferry historical site. President Trump donated the $78,333.32 salary he had earned so far to the National Park Service -- "every penny that the President received from the first quarter," Spicer told journalists. Trump is fulfilling a campaign pledge to donate his salary.
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US Sen. Al Franken, left, listens to fellow Democratic Sen. Chris Coons on Monday, April 3, as Coons became the key vote needed to sustain a filibuster against Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Later in the week, the Senate triggered the "nuclear option" that allowed Republicans to break the filibuster and confirm Gorsuch with a simple majority.
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President Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One on Thursday, April 6. The Internet had some fun with the juxtaposition of Trump and "Star Wars" villain Darth Vader, who appeared in the scene on the right from the film "Rogue One."
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi faces Trump in the Oval Office as they make statements to the press on Monday, April 3. Trump warmly welcomed his Egyptian counterpart in a visit that's meant to signal a shift in the US approach to Egypt.
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Police arrest someone after clashes broke out between Trump supporters and Trump protesters at a pro-Trump rally in Vancouver, Washington, on Sunday, April 2.
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Hillary Clinton arrives for an on-stage interview at the "Women in the World" summit in New York on Thursday, April 6. It was her first public interview since losing the presidential election last year.
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President Trump and the first lady welcome Jordan's King Abdullah II and Queen Rania on Wednesday, April 5. Trump and Abdullah are united in the fight against ISIS -- a fact Trump heralded during a news conference in the White House Rose Garden -- but the duo are each other's antithesis when it comes to responding to the issue of Syrian refugees.
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Trump walks out of the White House to greet Egypt's President on Monday, April 3. See last week in politics
