Mingri “Ezra” Jin, head pastor of Zion Church, is seen on September 12, 2018, in Beijing, days after authorities shut down one of China’s largest “underground” Protestant churches. (Getty Images)
A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
Immigrants from Venezuela walk toward a US Border Patrol transit center after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States on January 8, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (John Moore via Getty Images)
Supporters cheer under a huge flag of Taiwan during an election campaign rally of Kuomintang (KMT) presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih in New Taipei City on January 12, 2024. (Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images)
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III delivers the keynote address at the 2023 Reagan National Defense Forum at the the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on December 2, 2023. (DoD via Flickr)
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul participates in a multinational military exercise with NATO allies as part of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group on October 5, 2022. (Kerri Kline via DVIDS)