In an upset victory over China at the 1984 Olympics, he and five others became the only American men ever to win the gold ...
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President Trump's pressure campaign against Venezuela is the latest in a long saga of U.S. intervention in the region that is rooted in the 1823 Monroe Doctrine — and is a mix of success and failure.
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In the early 1950s, at the height of the Red Scare, one question trailed the famed nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer ...
During the Cold War, the US government secretly explored using individuals with claimed psychic abilities, known as remote ...
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One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold ...
Former CIA case officer Aldrich Ames, one of America's most damaging spies who sold secrets to Russia, died at 84 in a ...