In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous escalation of nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West.

KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end ...

US President Donald Trump released material related to the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday, seeking to honor his campaign promise to provide more transparency about ...

The US National Archives on Tuesday released the final batch of files related to the assassination of president John F.

DALLAS (AP) — Newly released documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 gave curious readers more ...

A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency ...

Historian Jamie Bradburn dives into the archives to learn more about how Torontonians sent two Communists to the provincial ...

Jewish communities worldwide celebrated Purim, a joyous holiday that includes dressing up in costume, giving charity, and ...

President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), dubbed “Star Wars,” proposed a missile defense system using cutting-edge technology, escalating tensions. The Soviet Union, economically ...

In the aftermath of the Ontario election, historian Jamie Bradburn looks back at the year Torontonians elected two Communists ...

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A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.