A view at the beginning point of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) on May 9, 2025, at Pump Station 1 in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. (Lance King via Getty Images)
An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
China's guided-missile destroyer Zhanjiang attends the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition on May 26, 2023, in Langkawi, Malaysia. (Zhang Hui via Getty Images)
The US Capitol building is shrouded in haze as smoke from wildfires in Canada brings unhealthy air quality to the East Coast in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2023. ( Aaron Schwartz/Xinhua via Getty Images)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers the keynote address during the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in the Loy Henderson Auditorium of the State Department in Washington, DC, on July 18, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Kevin McCarthy speaks with Tsai Ing-wen during a bipartisan meeting at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on April 5, 2023. (Frederic J. Brown via Getty Images)