Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
US President Joe Biden, with Vice President Kamala Harris in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, in Washington, DC, on June 2, 2021 (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
A researcher works in a lab that is developing testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus at Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation on February 28, 2020 in Nutley, New Jersey (Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images)
A Chinese man wears a protective mask as he walks in front the logos of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at National Aquatics Centre on April 9, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
A health worker next to oxygen cylinders taking information from a COVID-19 coronavirus positive person, inside the ambulance, at MMC hospital in Guwahati, Assam, India on 25 May 2021. (David Talukdar/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) review the oath of joining the party in front of the party flag on April 13, 2021 in Luoyang, Henan Province of China. (Photo by Jia Fangwen/VCG via Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with Senegalese President Macky Sall (L) during a meeting at the West lake State Guest House in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province on September 2, 2016 (IWASAKI MINORU/AFP via Getty Images)