St. John of God in McKees Rocks, just outside of Pittsburgh. Kathleen Davis/WESA hide caption
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday. A Pennsylvania grand jury says its investigation of clergy sexual abuse identified more than 1,000 child victims in records in six Roman Catholic dioceses. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (left) and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the city and county of Los Angeles, plus four other cities, were joining California's lawsuit over the 2020 census citizenship question in May. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
A police officer speaks to a man walking on New Haven Green, Wednesday, Aug. 15, in New Haven, Conn. More than a 100 people fell ill from suspected drug overdoses linked to a batch of synthetic marijuana laced with fubinaca. Bill Sikes/AP hide caption
The Satanic Temple unveils its statue of Baphomet, a winged-goat creature, at a rally in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday. The group wants to install the statue on Capitol grounds because a monument of the Ten Commandments was placed there in 2017. Hannah Grabenstein/AP hide caption
This still frame from a video released earlier this week by Cal Fire shows the "fire tornado" forming over Lake Keswick Estates near Redding, Calif., on July 26. Cal Fire via AP hide caption
Esteban Santiago, seen leaving the Broward County jail for a hearing in January 2017, has been sentenced to life in prison for a shooting rampage at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Lynne Sladky/AP hide caption
A member of the Myanmar security forces stands guard near a military transport helicopter in Rakhine state last September, about a month into the bloody crackdown on the country's Rohingya Muslim population. STR/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The company behind a privately funded passenger train line in Florida has proposed a route that would connect Orlando and Tampa. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
In the movie Crazy Rich Asians, Princess Intan (Kris Aquino, left) and economist Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) meet at a wedding in Singapore and have a little tete-a-tete about, of all things, microloans. Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption
Teachers visit the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap, perusing racks of educational posters and tubs of rulers. Eslah Attar/NPR hide caption
Omarosa Manigault Newman, who appeared on NBC on Monday, released excerpts of a tape on Thursday that she said involved an offer of a Trump campaign job in return for her silence. Zach Pagano/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images hide caption
Incoming CEO of United States Olympic Committee Sarah Hirshland (3rd L) listens during a Senate hearing in July. The hearing was to focus on changes made by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), USA Gymnastics (USAG), and Michigan State University (MSU) to protect Olympic and amateur athletes from abuse. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption