Just 2.4 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island, the city of 83 people can see the border from the shore. "We're safe, as long as we sleep good at night," a resident told Insider. "We keep the eyes ...

The Diomede Islands - two craggy specks in the middle of the Bering Strait-sit two and a half miles apart but live in different days. Little Diomede, U.S. territory, and Big Diomede, Russian, are ...

FILE - The American island of Little Diomede, Alaska, left, and on the right, the Russian island of Big Diomede, are seen from the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica in the Bering Strait, on July 14, 2017 ...

United States and Canadian fighter jets assigned to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) recently conducted an exercise over Alaska, near the Russian border. The drill took place on ...

Life in Diomede, Alaska, is unlike anywhere else in the United States. Just 2.4 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island, the city of 83 people can see the border from the shore. "We're safe, as long as ...