Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Central Committee and immediately launched a broad campaign to reform the Soviet Union and its foreign policy, advocating a policy of “glasnost” ...

Morris Michtom, a small toy store owner, put two stuffed ’teddy bears’ in his Brooklyn shop window for sale, inspired by an ...

Brandenburg eine Alte und eine neue Stadt - a giant east German mural by Emil Spiess in Brandenburg an der Havel, saved from demolition in 2009 and now exhibited at a former steel mill.

Fred Leplat and Liz Lawrence explore the situation facing Ukraine today and key solidarity tasks in the months ahead. The current phase of the war in Ukraine started on the 24 February 2022, three ...

The USA, Canada, Sweden, and Finland have all worn their fair share of timeless classics and absolute clunkers on the ice.

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

The citizens photographed by Boris Mikhailov in the last days of the Soviet Union evoke laughter and sympathy in a show at ...

FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...

The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia has been officially severed.

Russia's army could soon lack the tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery needed to sustain its current combat intensity in Ukraine.

KTVU has proudly been partnering with ONE WARM COAT for many years – spreading the warmth throughout the Bay Area one coat at a time. If you have a new or gently worn coat you’d like to donate ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...