Vice President JD Vance speaking with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the US embassy in Paris on February 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with NATO secretary general Mark Rutte at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkiye, on April 22, 2026. (Getty Images)
A weapon is mounted on the Lehit ground robotic system, developed by specialists of the International Legion under the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, during a demonstration in Ukraine on December 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
People gather in front of the Chinese Consulate General to protest the unjust conviction of Jimmy Lai on February 14, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)
A MARTAC T-24 unmanned surface vehicle (USV) drives autonomously during a demonstration for NATO mine countermeasures personnel as part of exercise Baltic Operations 2023 (BALTOPS 23). (DVIDS)
A US Air Force F-35A Lightning II refuels during exercise Mobility Guardian 23 on July 18, 2023, over the Pacific Ocean. (US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christian Sullivan)
A live demonstration uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition in dense crowd spatial-temporal technology at the Horizon Robotics exhibit at the Las Vegas Convention Center. (David Mcnew/AFP via Getty Images)
A Long March-5 Y7 carrier rocket carrying a communication technology experiment satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on February 23, 2024. (VCG via Getty Images)
Florian Meinert, group leader at the 5th Institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart, adjusts a neutral-atom quantum computer setup in the institute's laboratory on May 3, 2023. (Photo by Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images)