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
Anti-Establishment Candidates Trump, Sanders Continue Rise In The Polls
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