This week marks 64 years since the 1961 landing of Cuban exiles on the southern shores of their homeland in what was, ...

By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, April 17, the 107th day of 2025. There are 258 days left in the year. Today in ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained ...

The failure of the Bay of Pigs invassion in April 1961 was a disaster for the Kennedy administration. It made the young president look weak, and gave fuel to Cold Warriors in both parties who ...

Yesterday, a rare Douglas A-26 Bomber flew into Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. Today, it will do a flyover ...

On the 63rd anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, four Alabama airmen who lost their lives during the mission were honored ...

Leo Baker, Wade Gray, Pete Ray and Riley Shamburger, members of the 117th Reconnaissance Wing Alabama Air National Guard, risked their lives as they invaded Cuba in a secretive CIA mission to ...

The 106th Air Refueling Squadron of the Alabama Air National Guard, in collaboration with the Southern Museum of Flight and ...