A billboard in central Tehran, Iran, depicts named Iranian ballistic missiles in service, with text in Arabic reading "the honest [person's] promise" and text in Persian reading "Israel is weaker than a spider's web," on April 15. Iran attacked Israel over the weekend with missiles, which it said was a response to a deadly strike on its consulate building in Damascus, Syria. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Israeli Iron Dome air defense system launches to intercept missiles fired from Iran, in central Israel this past weekend. Tomer Neuberg/AP hide caption
Michael Casey (L) is shown here with U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Timothy Haugh, at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on July 12, 2023. Casey is now the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
Edmund Garcia, an Iraq War veteran, stands outside his home in Rosharon, Texas. Like many vets, he was told if he took a mortgage forbearance, his monthly payments wouldn't go up afterward. Joseph Bui for NPR hide caption
The criminal complaint against Alexander Scott Mercurio is photographed on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. Jenny Kane/AP hide caption
New data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shows that 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. came through unlicensed dealers who aren't required to perform background checks over a five year report that was released Thursday, April 4, 2024. Charles Dharapak/AP hide caption
President Joe Biden greets China's leader Xi Jinping at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, Calif., Nov, 15, 2023, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative conference. Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool hide caption
A demonstrator holds a placard, after Stella Assange, wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, released a statement outside the Royal Courts of Justice, in London, Tuesday. Alberto Pezzali/AP hide caption
Members of the Texas National Guard placing barber wire on a fence at the border between Mexico and the US. HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger (L) and Intel Factory Manager Hugh Green (R) watch as US President Joe Biden (C) looks at a semiconductor wafer during a tour at Intel Ocotillo Campus in Chandler, Arizona, this week. The White House unveiled almost $20 billion in new grants and loans Wednesday to support Intel's US chip-making facilities. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Ghost Army members John Christman, of Leesburg, N.J., second from left standing, Seymour Nussenbaum, of Monroe Township, N.J, in wheelchair at left, and Bernard Bluestein, of Hoffman Estates, Ill., in wheelchair at right, join military and congressional officials as members of their secretive WWII-era unit are presented with the Congressional Gold Medal on Thursday. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption
A wooden migrant boat lies grounded on a reef alongside mangroves, at Harry Harris Park in Tavernier, Fla., last year. The U.S. Coast Guard says that since October, has it intercepted and returned about 130 migrants to Haiti. Rebecca Blackwell/AP hide caption
President Biden sits with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 2023. Miriam Alster/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking on a visit to his campaign headquarters after a presidential election in Moscow. What will another six years of Putin mean for Russia's war with Ukraine? Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP hide caption
Workers at the U.S. Embassy in Havana leave the building in September 2017. New research out of the National Institutes of Health finds no unusual pattern of damage in the brains of Havana syndrome patients. Emily Michot/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images hide caption
Military personnel raise the Swedish flag during Sweden's NATO accession ceremony at NATO headquarters during a flag-raising ceremony outside NATO headquarters this week. Expanding the number of NATO members is one way the military alliance is trying to strengthen itself after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Omar Havana/Getty Images hide caption
Cadets salute during the graduation ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy in 2021. A change to West Point's mission statement has sparked outrage among some conservatives online. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP hide caption
Devotees of TikTok gather at the Capitol in Washington, as the House passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app if its China-based owner doesn't sell. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Ukrainian soldiers from The 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Mariupol Brigade prepare to fire a multiple launch rocket system based on a pickup truck towards Russian positions at the front line, near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 5, 2024. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption
The TikTok Inc. building is seen in Culver City, Calif., on March 17, 2023. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo) AP hide caption
Pentagon press secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon on Tuesday. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption