Checkpoint

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

Foreign Affairs Since the Cold War, Washington has empowered violent anti-Russian extremists.  As a negotiated settlement of the Russia–Ukraine war becomes more likely, President Volodymyr Zelensky faces a major obstacle to peace that comes not from Moscow, but from ultranationalist and neo-Nazi forces inside his own country. In a recent…

Joburg mayor Dada Morero has not appointed anyone to occupy the position of MMC for Transport. Thursday marks one month since PA deputy president Kenny Kunene resigned as MMC for Transport in the City of Johannesburg, but his position remains unoccupied. The Citizen understands that there is a standoff between…

London’s irregular electric hire bike rules have created a “Checkpoint Charlie” situation at bridges, according to a top comedian. Dara Ó Briain took to social media to complain that e-bikes are “stacking up” at river crossings between the boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond in the west of the capital. Lime,…

The loudspeaker exchanges have been a longstanding element of Cold War-style psychological warfare between the two countries. South Korea’s military says North Korea has started removing some of its loudspeakers from the Korean border, just days after Seoul took down its own equipment used for anti-Pyongyang broadcasts. The Joint Chiefs…