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)
On the eve of renewed sanctions by Washington, Iranian protesters demonstrate outside the former US embassy in Tehran on November 4, 2018, marking the anniversary of its storming by student protesters in 1979. (NurPhoto via Getty Images)
A crowd of refugees carry their belongings May 3, 1994 at the border of Rwanda and Tanzania. Hutu refugees have fled to Tanzania border across the Akagara River in order to escape reprisals by Tutsi rebels. (Scott Peterson/Liaison)
Girls in front of a UNHCR refugee tent in the Hasan Sham refugee camp. The tent camp near the largely destroyed former IS stronghold of Mossul accommodates 3,300 of the 1.8 million internally displaced persons in Iraq. (picture alliance via Getty Images)
A woman looks on as she waits to be searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after leaving the Islamic State (IS) group's last holdout of Baghouz, in the eastern Syria, March 1, 2019. (DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
A Syriac Christian militiaman stands guard on top of a building at the Saint John's church (Mar Yohanna) in the nearly deserted predominantly Christian Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, on April 16, 2017.(CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images)
US Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, speaks during a press conference calling on Congress to cut funding for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and to defund border detention facilities, outside the US Capitol (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Cartoon published in the British newspaper the INDEPENDENT in which the Ayatollah Khomeini is throwing a copy of THE RIGHTS OF MAN by Tom Paine onto a bonfire stoked with copies of THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie. (Terry Smith/The LIFE Images Collect
Holocaust and Tree of Life synagogue survivor Judah Samet looks at photographs of his family, August 27, 2018 in Pittsburgh. (ANDREW RUSSELL/TRIBUNE-REVIEW)