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The Russia-Ukraine war has waged on for nearly 4 years now. Western sanctions were meant to isolate Russia financially. Instead, they forced adaptation. In 2025, BeInCrypto began documenting how Russia and Russia-linked actors rebuilt payment routes using crypto. What emerged was not a single exchange or token, but a resilient…

On the digital marquee of Broadway’s Imperial Theater, the stars of the new reimagining of the 1984 musical Chess — about rival American and Soviet chess wizards and the woman caught between them — gaze out toward 8th Avenue with looks of serious intent. Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele (last on…

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…