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)
US Trade Representative Mike Froman (C) speaks at a press conference for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a pan-Pacific trade agreement by trade ministers from 12 nations in Sydney on October 27, 2014. (PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images)
President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko (R) congratulations the newly elected Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman (L) during a session of Ukrainian Parliament in Kiev, Ukraine on April 14, 2016. (Vladimir Shtanko/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Hundreds of advocates for marijuana legalization rally and smoke pot outside the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 02, 2016. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Governor Pat Quinn is joined by President Barack Obama for a get out the vote campaign rally at Chicago State University, Chicago, IL, October 19, 2014. (Sara Mays/Quinn for Illinois/Flickr)