Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on May 4, 2026. (Getty Images)
A Philippine Air Force Black Hawk helicopter lands on June 29, 2023, on Mavulis Island, which is the Philippines’ northernmost island and is roughly 88 miles from Taiwan. (Getty Images)
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Trailers with launchers for guided missiles of a German Patriot air defense system stand on a snow-covered field in southeastern Poland on April 3, 2023. (Getty Images)
A boy stands by the statue of Brigadier General Gouverneur K. Warren atop Little Round Top at the Gettysburg battlefield on July 3, 2005, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Rescue personnel evacuate mock victims from a subway train during a homeland defense emergency drill involving a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear attack in an urban environment in New York City on August 4, 2021. (Photo by Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)
Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden wave as they board Air Force One at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
The shale gas tanker JS Ineos Intuition passes under the Forth Bridge en route from the Scottish port of Grangemouth to Houston on March 2, 2022. (Ken Jack/Getty Images)