Today's Highlight in History: On April 17, 1961, some 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of ... animated cartoon "Porky's Duck Hunt," directed by Tex ...

there's a colony of around 20 pigs who retrieve food from passing boats and bathe with tourists. Beyond the opportunity to have your photo taken in a real-life New Yorker cartoon, this phenomenon ...

Not just regarding the Bay of Pigs, but a host of other entanglements that followed. The United States went on to engage in no fewer than two dozen forceful foreign interventions after 1961 ...

But for those who stormed a small stretch of Cuban coastline on April 17, 1961, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion was a turning point in the fight against an oppressive communist dictatorship ...

The United States' botched effort last month to support a Syrian moderate rebel group known as Division 30 was a chain of errors that recalls, in a small way, the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco.

The scheme was straightforward and audacious: 1,400 U.S.-trained Cuban exiles would land at the Bay of Pigs and ignite a populist uprising that would topple a Soviet-backed communist revolutionary ...

Officers Alexia Reyes, left, and Ryan Dreseris help Arturo Sanchez-Bella, 87, center, make his way to a commemoration at the Bay of Pigs Memorial Park in Miami on April 12. MATIAS J. OCNER mocner@ ...