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President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One as he arrives at King Khalid International Airport on May 13, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
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USCGC Healy and crew keep station alongside a multi-year ice floe for a science evolution in the Beaufort Sea on August 9, 2023. (US Coast Guard)
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Soldiers pulling down camouflage netting from a 122 mm howitzer 2A18 before combat work on June 19, 2025, in the Sumy region of Ukraine. (Nikoletta Stoyanova via Getty Images)
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Semiconductor chips are printed onto silicon wafers and loaded into containers in the clean room at GlobalFoundries Fab 8 in Malta, New York, on June 10, 2021. (Cindy Schultz via Getty Images)
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Maxar satellite image shows visible craters and destruction at multiple tunnel entrances following US airstrikes on the Isfahan research center on June 22, 2025. (Satellite Image via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance sit in the Situation Room at the White House on June 21, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Daniel Torok via Getty Images)
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