U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that recent agreements with Ukraine and Russia are provisional. The U.S. aims to evaluate their terms before moving forward. While deals include ceasing ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.

Boris Spassky, legendary Russian chess player and the 10th World Chess Champion who rose to international fame in the 1972 “Match of the Century” against American Bobby Fischer, died Thursday ...