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President Donald Trump delivers a speech about the economy at Rockland Community College Fieldhouse in Suffern, New York, on May 22, 2026. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump addresses the media on the tarmac after arriving at Paris Orly Airport on June 17, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Sailors from the US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 1 and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force prepare for a mine-sweep exercise dive using an unmanned underwater vehicle to detect training mines in Japan’s Ise Bay on February 4, 2020. (US Air Force)
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Black smoke rises from the area of Gazprom Neft’s Moscow oil refinery on the southeastern outskirts of Moscow on June 18, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan Takeshi Iwaya meets NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the NATO summit on June 24, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. (Getty Images)
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US forces carried out a maritime interdiction and right-of-visit boarding of the sanctioned stateless vessel MT DAVINA located in the Indian Ocean within the INDOPACOM area of responsibility, June 4, 2026. (DVIDS)
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A US sailor assigned to Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Boxer signals an AH-1Z Viper to take off during flight operations in the South China Sea on June 13, 2026. (US Marine Corps)
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signs the memorandum of understanding at his office in Tehran, Iran, on June 18, 2026. (Iranian Presidency via Getty Images)
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