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)
People outside St Joseph's Church (also known as Wangfujing Church) of the Roman Catholic Church in Dongcheng District of Beijing during the pandemic of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
President Donald J. Trump and Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea meet for a social dinner Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019
Two US-made F-16 fighters in the air during an scramble take off at the eastern Hualien air force base on January 23, 2013. The Taiwan air force demonstrated their combat skills at the Hualien air base during an annual training before the coming lunar new
People visit Huawei booth during 2019 World 5G Convention at Beijing Etrong International Exhibition & Convention Center on November 21, 2019 in Beijing, China. 2019 World 5G Convention is held from November 20-23 in Beijing.
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen gestures to a US official as US Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and director of the American of Institute in Taiwan, Brent Christensen, look on during their visit to the Presidential Office in Taipei
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend the ceremony of presenting Xi Jinping degree from the Saint Petersburg State University on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg on Jun