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In the summer of 1969, the “Manson Family” gang, led by infamous criminal Charles Manson, launched a brutal killing spree that terrorized Southern California. Among the nine victims were Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary. The murderers stabbed the couple to death, and smeared their blood on the walls of …

The city of Phoenix, Arizona, plans to give Ukraine about 600 civilian firearms that have been unclaimed for 30 days or more. The weapons will be transferred to the National Police of Ukraine, according to an agenda item for the June 28 meeting of the Phoenix City Council. The firearms are worth $200,000, officials noted, …

Russian fighter jets continued to taunt American and French aircraft over Syria on Thursday, buzzing Western aircraft and prompting French planes to change course, western military officials said. The incidents involved Russian Su-35 “Flanker” planes harassing a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper unmanned craft and two French Rafale fighters, the officials said. …

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner — who led a short-lived mutiny last month — is in Russia and not in Belarus, the leader of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, claimed. Speaking to reporters in Minsk on July 6, Lukashenka also said that Wagner fighters have remained at …

Iran tried to seize two oil tankers in international waters near the strategic Strait of Hormuz early on July 5, firing shots at one of them, the U.S. Navy said. In both cases, officials said, Iranian naval vessels backed off after the U.S. Navy responded to distress signals, and that …

The U.S. and Russia are discussing a new prisoner swap that could involve jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is being held in a Moscow prison on espionage charges that he denies, and a Russian detained in the U.S. on cybercrime charges, the Kremlin said Tuesday. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov …

VARADERO, CUBA July 2 – Russia’s first scheduled flight to Cuba since 2022 landed on Sunday in Cuba, TASS reports. The flight took place a few days after Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu hosted a visit from Cuba’s Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, Alvaro Lopez Miera. The Kremlin says …

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – The United States flew nuclear-capable bombers to the Korean Peninsula on Friday in its latest show of force against North Korea, days after the North staged massive anti-U.S. rallies in its capital. The long-range B-52 bombers took part in joint aerial drills with other U.S. and …

Russian authorities appear to have detained General Sergei Surovikin over his suspected connection to the Wagner Group’s mutiny last week, according to media reports. The specific details surrounding Surovikin’s status remain blurry, but top Russian and U.S. officials have said the senior general has been detained, the Financial Times and The New York …

In early 1991, an article by then-correspondent Susan Katz Keating appeared in Soldier of Fortune, describing how the KGB likely would try to overthrow Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The article, “How to Stage a Soviet Coup,” was published shortly before the KGB targeted Gorbachev in a failed coup attempt. In …