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Take a look at 31 photos of the week from February 17 through February 23.

White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, in a rare public appearance, outlined President Donald Trump's agenda Thursday before an enthusiastic crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

The Department of Justice has rescinded guidance from August that discouraged the use of private prisons.

A Texas Republican lawmaker invoked the shooting of former Rep. Gabby Giffords to explain why he is not hosting in-person town halls.

Hugh Jackman stars in "Logan," the latest and most violent Marvel movie yet. CNN's Brian Lowry reviews the last chapter for Wolverine.

As Wednesday's deadline set by the governor to evacuate the Standing Rock camp site looms, a number of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters have vowed to stay put.

Kellyanne Conway gives advice to women while speaking at CPAC.

The US military is contemplating a long-term presence in Iraq to stabilize the country after the anticipated defeat ISIS, America's top military officer said Thursday.

Coral reefs may not survive the century because of global warming. CNN columnist John Sutter travels to Madagascar, where a village depends on reefs for survival.

India's Ministry of Health has released a new sex education manual with a more progressive attitude towards homosexuality.

A hammer pounds away in the living room of a middle class home. A sanding machine smoothes the grain of the wood floor in the dining room.

The Trump administration's decision to repeal guidelines put in place by the Obama administration concerning transgender students' bathroom access both misunderstands the gravity of the civil rights issues at stake for transgender youth (as well as transgender school staff and visitors) and underestimates how easy the so-called transgender bathroom problem would be to solve. Many people assume that sex-segregated bathrooms are necessary, but they are not, even in schools.

A Black Lives Matter demonstrator was grabbed a Confederate flag from a member of the South Carolina Secessionist Party outside the College of Charleston.

It's just seven words long, but that's enough to start a firestorm: "Real men provide. Real women appreciate it."

CNN asked attendees at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) if President Donald Trump is a conservative.

Chicago Public Schools say they will deny federal immigration agents access to district buildings and personnel unless served with a criminal warrant, the latest in a series of steps taken by US school officials to protect undocumented students.

Across the country, people are flooding auditoriums, high school theaters and anywhere else they can to give their members of Congress an earful.

Beyoncé will not perform at this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival because the singer is pregnant with twins, the festival announced on its Facebook.

A Danish man who burned the Quran has been charged with blasphemy, the first such charge in the country in almost half a century.