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)
General Abdourahmane Tchiani, the head of Nigeia's presidential guard who declared himself the new leader of the country after a coup, in Niamey, Niger, on July 28, 2023. (Balima Boureima/Anadolu Agency 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)
Reform supporters wrapped in Israeli flags look on during a pro-reform demonstration in front of the Knesset, Jerusalem, on April 27, 2023. (Matan Golan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Paramilitary soldiers cordon off the Supreme Court after arrival of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan, on May 11, 2023. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks at an anti-government march in Gujranwala, Pakistan, on November 1, 2022, two days before he was shot in the foot at another rally. (Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)
Smoke rises during clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 19, 2023. (Ahmed Satti/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed and Hudson Senior Fellow Joshua Meservey at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, on April 4, 2023. (Madeline Mills/Hudson Institute)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station on May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Bill Ingalls via DVIDS)