Thom Shanker

Treasury Secretary James Baker, regarded as an architect of tax reform and a stabilizing force in international finance, announced Friday he is resigning to head the presidential campaign of Vice...

Defense Department officials said Monday that the Navy had reached only a ''preliminary'' conclusion in blaming crew error for the downing of Iran Air Flight 655, and several legislators said...

Soviet editors and TV producers plan vastly expanded coverage of the 1988 American presidential election in a precedent-setting look at U.S. politics that will be a primer in the democratic...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in a blunt speech to senior editors and other keepers of communism`s ideological flame, has admitted that his political reforms brought turmoil to all levels of...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Monday blamed recent rioting in the southern Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia on long-time Kremlin neglect of nationality problems. But Gorbachev, opening a five-day state...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in the capital of Yugoslavia Monday to contemplate his worst nightmare-a country with a history of violent nationalist tensions and a mix of capitalism and...

President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev discussed a timetable for Soviet troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and a cutoff of covert U.S. aid to the Afghan rebels Wednesday, but they...

It is a normal piece of paper, with a commonplace passport photo and the expected names and dates. At the top, in Russian, it even says, ''usual visa.'' But for...

A senior Soviet editor indicated Wednesday that the West German youth who landed a light plane just off Red Square last week will be put on trial for illegally penetrating...

Mathias Rust, who slipped through Soviet air defenses to land his plane on the edge of Red Square is being held in Lefortovo Prison, where West German officials had their...