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World & National News

Following a successful drone campaign, does Ukraine have the upper hand in the war?

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by Tanner Stening
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World & National News

Tuning in to freedom: A Northeastern professor’s Cold War memories of Voice of America

by Alena Kuzub
A black and white photo of a young Queen Elizabeth II standing next to Anthony Blunt, a man wearing a suit and tie.
Society & Culture

The British secret service kept the Queen in the dark for nine years that a spy was in her midst. Northeastern historians unpack what happened

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by Patrick Daly
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Legendary journalism professor Nicholas Daniloff, arrested by the Soviets on false espionage charges in 1986, dies at 89

by Ian Thomsen
A Cuban sailor walking outside in the sun past a Russian Navy ship.
World & National News

Russian warships in Cuba recalls ‘Cold War posturing,’ but no threat, expert says

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by Tanner Stening
Sailors on a boat lit by spotlights at night recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon from the ocean.
World & National News

Are the US and China headed for a Cold War?

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by Tanner Stening

30 years ago the Berlin Wall fell. And then Prague happened.

by Molly Callahan

On the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, correcting the record of the Cold War Space Race to determine if we’ve entered Space Race 2.0

by Molly Callahan

Organized crime is driving the humanitarian and political crisis in Venezuela, says Latin America scholar

by Ian Thomsen

The secret life of Jack Bailey, former Northeastern dean and military intelligence commander

by Ian Thomsen
World & National News

This is what it’s like to be arrested in Moscow as an American spy

by Ian Thomsen

What will it take to normalize US-Cuban relations?

by Molly Callahan