Three decades ago, Cuba shot down two Brothers to the Rescue planes, killing four Cuban Americans and drawing swift ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Chinese scholar Da Wei about the history of the U.S.-China relationship and how it has changed under President Trump.

Pro-Soviet Union groups active since the Cold War are part of a movement pushing for softer U.S.-Cuba relations. Activist organizations made headlines on March 21 after delivering humanitarian aid to ...

Brazilian activist Thiago Avila holds a Cuban flag on board the vessel Maguro -- symbolically renamed "Granma 2.0" as a tribute to the yacht used by Fidel Castro's guerrilla fighters to launch their ...

On November 7, 1944, as Soviet forces celebrated another hard-fought advance against retreating German troops near the Yugoslav city of Niš, the roar of approaching aircraft engines shattered the ...

American P-38 and Soviet Yak-9 planes in flight during World War II. The planes engaged each other in combat once over Nis during the war. (Wikimedia Commons) By November 1944, Nazi Germany was ...

The Lend-Lease Memorial in Fairbanks, Alaska commemorates the shipment of U.S. aircraft to the Soviet Union along the Northwest Staging Route. (Wikimedia Commons) Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 ...

After secretly rebuilding the captured American jet, Soviet test pilots pushed it into head-to-head mock combat against their own MiG-21 and MiG-23 fighters. What happened next shocked them. Cambridge ...

White picket fences. Green, manicured lawns. Children on bicycles. The “American Dream” conjures images of a suburban ideal and elicits hope and optimism, especially for immigrants and for those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wore a CCCP sweatshirt as he arrived in Alaska for the summit with President Trump. That is ...

Russia’s foreign minister arrived in Alaska for Friday’s high-stakes US summit wearing a Soviet Union sweatshirt — an apparent jab reminding the world of the Kremlin’s ultimate goal to reassemble the ...