An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
A protester flashes victory signs as traffic slows during demonstrations in Hamedan, Iran, on January 1, 2026. The demonstrations erupted after shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar shut their businesses to protest the sharp fall of Iran’s currency and worsening economic conditions. (Getty Images)
President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
The logo of Nippon Steel Corporation at the company's Kyushu manufacturing base on February 16, 2024, in Kitakyushu, Japan. (Philip Fong via Getty Images)
The LNG tanker Maria Energy is moored alongside the Floating Storage and Regasification Unit vessel Hoegh Esperanza at the Uniper LNG terminal at the Jade estuary in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, on January 4, 2023. (Focke Strangmann via Getty Images)
Citizens walk past a decorative installation for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation on October 14, 2023, in Beijing, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
Uncrewed aerial vehicles equipped with specialized software and sensors fly during the Technical Concept Experiment 23.2 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California on January 19, 2024. (US Navy photo by Michael Walls)
President Joe Biden greets President Xi Jinping before a meeting in Woodside, California, on November 15, 2023. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
South Korean military drones fly in formation during a South Korea–US joint military drill at Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, South Korea, on May 25, 2023. (Yelim LEE / AFP via Getty Images)
One of the largest outdoor legal marijuana grow operations in Santa Barbara County is in full view from heavily traveled Highway 246 on August 23, 2022, just outside Buellton, California. (George Rose via Getty Images)