US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
The Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) facility, which will house a compact fusion experiment device, undergoes its first exterior lighting test on September 9, 2026, in Hefei, China. (Getty Images)
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)
Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko (L) joins Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko at the Presidential Administration building following Savchenko's return to Ukraine on May 25, 2016 in Kiev, Ukraine. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
Army veteran James P. Wainscoat shouts at US President Barack Obama at the David Lawrence Convention Center on July 21, 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
People hold the Polish constitution as they attend the anti-government demonstration against the refusal of polish government to accept verdict of Constitutional Court in Warsaw, March 10, 2016. (WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Soldiers in the 1st Infantry Division wait outside at a deployment ceremony as more soldiers at Fort Riley prepare to leave for another tour in Iraq August 13, 2009 at Fort Riley, Kansas. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)