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United States Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy participate in a joint press conference after talks on September 6, 2026, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Getty Images)
Engineers work outside the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, on September 25, 2009. (Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes US Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner before their talks in Moscow on September 5, 2026. (Getty Images)
College banners hang in the classroom of teacher Chrys Latham, as she leads a senior advisory period, at Washington Latin Public Charter School, in Northwest Washington, D.C., October 23, 2015. (Allison Shelley/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif April 19, 2016 at the United Nations in New York. (DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)
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General view of an apartment block in Pechatniki suburb, southeast of Moscow, after an explosion destroyed four stories out of 18 of the building, September 9, 1999. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
The Baker test during Operation Crossroads, a series of two nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, July 25, 1946. (Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)
The opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 5, 2016. (FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARIT/AFP/Getty Images)