After toppling Venezuela’s leader earlier this year, the Trump administration has turned its sights on Cuba. The near-total blockade of the island is now posing the greatest challenge to the ...

US-Iran tensions Highlights Trump signals possible military action as Iran drafts counterproposal amid rising Strait of Hormuz and regional security concerns.

President Trump has blasted reports claiming his top general, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, advised him to abandon plans for an Iranian military campaign.

Frank Dikotter, Dutch by origin, is a scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has the good fortune to live in Palo Alto. It is there that he wrote this fifth book in his series on the ...

February 23, 2026 By Carol Britton Meyer Longtime Hingham resident Jim Conroy is settling into his new role as town historian ...

The U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission’s count for civilian deaths in Ukraine since Russia’s all-out invasion is 14,999, though it says that is likely an underestimate. More than 40,600 civilians ...

Iran has accelerated political and military preparations in anticipation of a potential US attack, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei ordering contingency plans to safeguard the country’s survival ...

Amid the largest US deployment in the Middle East in decades, analysts say that Iran is better prepared militarily than ...

Malcolm Purinton teaches history at Northeastern University in Boston, but he's also known as the Beer Historian. He pointed to one of the most famous Revolutionary events as an example of how central ...