October 27, 1962 becomes the most perilous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis. As misunderstandings multiply, aircraft are shot ...

HAVANA (AP) – The world stood at the brink of Armageddon for 13 days in October 1962 when President John F. Kennedy drew a symbolic line in the Atlantic and warned of dire consequences if Soviet ...

In today’s highly charged political environment, in which a president’s handling of international crises, however competent or inept, is immediately subject to hyperbole and sanctification by ...

And even after six decades there is an important lesson to be learned. The story is familiar to most of our more seasoned readers. In the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasions, Cuba's communist ...

After World War II, the former Allied powers quickly became rivals, divided by ideology, economics, and competing visions for ...

In this Intelligence Report: A rare look at the Russian missiles and the Cuban launch sites that threatened the U.S. ABC7's Chuck Goudie was in Cuba last week. When ABC7 set out for Cuba to follow the ...

What a delicious commentary on the Cold War days and more recent doomsdays (“Memories from the end of the world,” Oct. 14)! I, too, recall the “ends of the world” including the Cold War, the Cuban ...

It’s hard to attribute anything but coincidence to the fact that Cuban President Raúl Castro issued a major immigration reform on Tuesday, Oct. 16, which was the 50th anniversary of the start of the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Many members of the military have vivid memories of key moments. In this week's Stories of Service, we meet a Navy veteran who served in the Korean War and was involved in the ...

Yahoo Racing is powered by Motorsport Network, providing expert reporting, analysis, and insider access across the world’s top racing series. A soldier poses for a photograph on the outer casing of an ...