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The United States is revamping a once-abandoned Cold War-era naval base in the Caribbean, signaling potential long-term military operations that could extend to Venezuela, according to a Reuters visual investigation. Construction work has resumed at the old Roosevelt Roads naval base in Puerto Rico, which the Navy closed more than…

Anyone who has seen her seething Oscar-nominated performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” knows that Lesley Manville can be hard as nails on screen — though it’s a register the British veteran tends to play only in support, as her larger showcase roles, from “Another Year” to “Mrs. Harris…

Ukraine has accused Russia of using a ground-launched cruise missile whose secret development once triggered the collapse of a key Cold War-era arms treaty. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Moscow has fired the 9M729, or SSC-8, missile at Ukraine multiple times since August, calling its use proof of “Russia’s complete…

Commentary Nearly all of the hard-won treaties that constrained nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War have been abrogated, says this academic. US President Donald Trump gestures as he walks from Marine One to board Air Force One to depart Haneda Airport for South Korea, in Tokyo, Japan,…

MIAMI (AP) — The federal agent had a daring pitch for Nicolás Maduro’s chief pilot: All he had to do was surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where U.S. authorities could nab the strongman. In exchange, the agent told the pilot in a clandestine meeting, the aviator…

The Cold War spawned more than fallout shelters and duck-and-cover drills. During that era when geopolitical tension hung over audiences like a mushroom cloud, filmmakers channeled the nuclear threat into art, satire, and spectacle. Some explored human frailty, others turned to monsters or absurdity, but all reflected the fears—and sometimes…

Trump speaks with Putin one day before meeting with Zelenskyy Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy reports on President Donald Trump's phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin one day before Trump's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and more on 'Special Report.' NEWYou can now listen to…

We’ve lived through a pandemic, surviving to tell a tale. Ask anyone now, or even decades later, what they remember of the year 2020, and the first thing that would come to their minds, regardless of where they hail from, would be the COVID-19 pandemic. Such was the all-pervasive nature…

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New voices and previously hidden stories have been reinterpreting U.S. history and reshaping museums for the last 20 years, drawing conservative criticism that President Trump is now wielding against the Smithsonian. Why it matters: The U.S. is more diverse than ever, and since the Cold War ended...Read More