Inflation rose 2.7% in June (compared to June last year), which isn’t a crisis, but it isn’t great either. This is the highest reading since ...

Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA disapproved.

Martin Cruz Smith, the best-selling mystery novelist who engaged readers for decades with “Gorky Park” and other thrillers ...

Policymakers in Washington should adopt the following lines of effort: ...

An Abraham Accords-centric approach tailors the Cold War-era “containment” strategy that George F. Kennan formulated to the Middle East, with Iran standing in for the Soviet Union.

If the Admiral Kuznetsov is decided not to continue repairs, it remains only to take it, cut it into scrap metal and dispose of it,” one admiral said.

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Under President Vladimir Putin, Moscow has attempted to expand its influence in the region – with mixed results.

The one commonality that exists between those espousing a communist-socialist ideology is that people are expendable, and ...

In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...

He wrote more than 30 novels, including an acclaimed series about Russian detective Arkady Renko. The first volume, "Gorky Park," was made into a 1983 film.

Mystery novelist Martin Cruz Smith, known for such Arkady Renko thrillers as “Gorky Park,” has died at age 82.