As Che Guevara’s Bristol Britannia finally landed back in Havana last week, the home folks cheered, and the rest of the hemisphere permitted itself a mighty sigh. Not only had Che done his best to ...

The U.S. once considered doing Fidel Castro in with an exploding cigar. In 1986 Castro gave up his trademark cigar — deciding it was bad for his health. This month, Cuba banned smoking in public ...

Like one of those famous exploding cigars in a Groucho Marx movie, nature imitates life by producing an exploding cigar of its own - a brand new, bright supernova in the "Cigar Galaxy" M82 in the ...

For Groucho Marx, the stock market was nothing to laugh at. The mustached wag invested his fortune, a quarter-million dollars, on a tip from a bellhop at the Ritz-Carlton during the height of the ...

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes it’s an exploding cigar, of the harmless kind with which Ernest Hemingway pranked a Turkish general, or of the deadly kind with which the CIA planned ...

“GOP’s exploding victory cigar.” (John Cole, Philadelphia Inquirer via CagleCartoons.com) ...