An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
A protester flashes victory signs as traffic slows during demonstrations in Hamedan, Iran, on January 1, 2026. The demonstrations erupted after shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar shut their businesses to protest the sharp fall of Iran’s currency and worsening economic conditions. (Getty Images)
President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
A large liquified natural gas transport ship sits docked in the Calcasieu River on June 7, 2023, near Cameron, Louisiana. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian soldier looks at the sky after hearing the sound of a nearby drone at the Bakhmut front line in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on January 13, 2024. (Photo by Ignacio Marin/Anadolu via Getty Images)
An F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet, attached to the "Fighting Swordsmen" of Strike Fighter Squadron 32, takes off from the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) on July 10, 2023, in the Atlantic Ocean. (DVIDS)
An American flag flies from a crane as a construction worker helps build a mixed-use apartment complex on January 25, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)