An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
A protester flashes victory signs as traffic slows during demonstrations in Hamedan, Iran, on January 1, 2026. The demonstrations erupted after shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar shut their businesses to protest the sharp fall of Iran’s currency and worsening economic conditions. (Getty Images)
An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, one of the 15 prominent thinkers labeled an "anti-Muslim extremist" by SPLC, attends a book presentation on April 20, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. (Christian Marquardt/Getty Images)
US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on April 22, 2016 in New York. (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP/Getty Images)
Edward Snowden (L) during an interview in December 2013 in Moscow, Russia and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (L) at Milk Studios on April 5, 2014 in Hollywood, California. (Barton Gellman/Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter fires at Islamic-State (IS) militant positions, from his position on the top of Mount Zardak, about 25 kilometers east of Mosul on September 9, 2014. (JM LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Sailors walk past the US Navy's new guided missile destroyer DDG 1000 USS Zumwalt on October 13, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)