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In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.

The imperiled birth—and slow decline—of Golden Rice.

Changes in technology, politics and business are all transforming espionage. Intelligence agencies must adapt — or risk irrelevance.

Americans have become paranoid about foreign cyberattacks on their political system, but they have nobody but themselves to blame.

Overflights, mapping fiber optic networks, "strange activities." Moscow's West Coast spies were busy.

The Communist Party wants to blame Hollywood and "loose women," instead of acknowledging its own epidemic levels of sexual assault.

Morale has hit rock bottom at Foggy Bottom, as American foreign service officers languish and Rex Tillerson builds a mini-empire.

A look at the peculiar obsession with "Santa Barbara" in the post-Soviet experience.

While the rest of the world endlessly watches for the latest blunder or scandal, America — an already narcissistic nation — is being pulled dangerously off course.

German authorities looked the other way as a right-wing terrorist cell went on a seven-year killing spree. Now they won't look in the mirror.

Fifty-eight-year-old Vasily Babina was released from Russian prison this month after nearly three decades behind bars. But his newfound freedom came with a very big asterisk: He's technically still a citizen of the Soviet Union.

BEIJING — Only hours after the election of Donald Trump, with channels across the world devoted to coverage of the shock event, China's flagship nightly news Xinwen Lianbo led with a congratulatory phone call by its leader, President Xi Jinping — not to the U.S. President-elect, but to a couple of orbiting Chinese cosmonauts. (The […]

Buyers in Hong Kong and Beijing are paying top dollar for wild American ginseng, fueling a digging frenzy that could decimate the revered root for good.

Back in 2013, Al Qaeda wasn't about to take ISIS's defection from its ranks lying down.

Since its creation, we have learned about the Islamic State from its enemies. That is about to change. This is the story of Abu Ahmad, a Syrian operative for ISIS who witnessed the group's lightning expansion firsthand and spent months among its most notorious foreign fighters.

Our armed services have become the one-stop shop for America's policymakers. But asking warriors to do everything poses great dangers for our country — and the military.

The knowledge that none of our present tribulations are new — indeed are positively ancient — may not provide reassurance to a potential Rio visitor worried about contracting Zika or getting mugged. But it may offer a certain measure of solace.

Should we really be surprised that young people are rejecting the economic status quo?

New research exposes a "massive secretive operation" to fill China's internet with propaganda.

86 countries have drones, 19 of them armed. Now ISIS wants them too. Is it too late to stop things?