Cold War

On April 5, 2025, 5:53 AM The story goes that 60 years ago, Tunnock’s teacakes were banned from RAF flights after a cockpit marshmallow explosion. The chocolate-covered treats were apparently all the rage, eaten by nuclear bomber crewmen on training sorties at the height of the Cold War. But in…

The Trump administration is using a Cold War-era statute to deport legal residents who make pro-Hamas statements, but defenders of free speech argue that if Mahmoud Khalil had pro-Hamas views, it shouldn't matter...Read More

Experts have told Newsweek that the island chain strategy, which was formulated by the United States during the Cold War, remains relevant today in containing Washington's near-peer competitor, China, as Beijing attempts to push American forces further away from it. The U.S. strengthened its military deployment in the Asia-Pacific region…

Paul Whelan was part of the largest prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia since the end of the Cold War. But since coming home, Whelan says he's still imprisoned — by bureaucracy. AILSA CHANG, HOST: It took the cooperation of several countries last summer for the U.S. and Russia to…

EXCLUSIVE: Strange Darling‘s Willa Fitzgerald is starring opposite Russell Crowe and Harry Lawtey in Walden Media’s Cold War thriller  Billion Dollar Spy , we can tell you first.   Fitzgerald will play Mae Lenihan, wife of CIA agent Tom Lenihan (Lawtey). Adapted from the book by David E. Hoffman and produced…

Is the U.S. angling for a repeat of the Sino-Russian split? In an Oct. 31, 2024, interview with right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson, President Donald Trump argued that the United States under Joe Biden had, in his mind erroneously, pushed China and Russia together. Separating the two powers would be a…

“Do you think you can trust Putin?” German Brigadier General Ralf Hammerstein asks with a wry smile. It’s a rhetorical question to which most of Europe would give the same answer – no. As the Trump administration continues to pursue a deal to end the war in Ukraine — one…

Faceoffs and power plays aren’t just hockey terms — they’re the language of international diplomacy. This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the Cold War tradition of taking geopolitics onto the ice, suggesting in a call to President Donald Trump that American and Russian skaters play matches against each other.…

WASHINGTON: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - the U.S.-funded news outlet set up to reach people under Communism during the Cold War - said on Tuesday it sued the administration of President Donald Trump to block the termination of the media outlet's federal grant. Why it's important The U.S. Agency for…

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