US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
The Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) facility, which will house a compact fusion experiment device, undergoes its first exterior lighting test on September 9, 2026, in Hefei, China. (Getty Images)
United States Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy participate in a joint press conference after talks on September 6, 2026, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Getty Images)
Engineers work outside the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, on September 25, 2009. (Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes US Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner before their talks in Moscow on September 5, 2026. (Getty Images)
A US soldier fires on a target during a squad training exercise at the 7th Army Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany on September 9, 2026. (US Army)
Migrants storm a barbed-wire fence as they attempt to cross the land border with Spain's African enclave of Ceuta near Fnideq in northern Morocco on September 15, 2024. (Getty Images)
A bulk carrier that was struck by a missile near the Strait of Hormuz during attacks launched by the United States and Israel against Iran is seen stranded off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, on September 11, 2026. (Getty Images)
People walk up a ramp from FDR Drive as they evacuate from Lower Manhattan in the wake of the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001. (Getty Images)