A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Rushan Abbas holds a photo of her sister, Uyghur doctor Gulshan Abbas, who is detained in China, during the “No Deals Without Freedom” protest at Lafayette Park on May 11, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan leads a mass formation of ships from Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, France, Canada, Australia, and the US during Rim of the Pacific drills in the Pacific on July 24, 2010. (US Navy photo by Robert Taylor)
US soldiers coordinate boat movement during a wet-gap crossing operation as part of joint military drills Dęblin, Poland, on May 13, 2022. (Army National Guard Photo)
A man walks past portraits of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and current President Xi Jinping at Yanan Revolutionary Memorial Hallin Yanan, China, on October 15, 2022. (Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images)
Vehicles of senior Indian army officers pass through the snow-cleared Srinagar-Leh highway on March 19, 2022, in Kashmir, India. (Yawar Nazir via Getty Images)
US President Joe Biden looks at a quantum computer with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna as he tours the IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, New York, on October 6, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
A large machine lifts containers at the China-Kazakhstan Logistics Cooperation Base in Lianyungang, China, on June 8, 2022. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)