U.S. working on ‘next steps’ in securing Paul Whelan’s release: Hostage negotiator – National | Globalnews.ca
Biden administration officials will meet early Monday to discuss next steps in securing the release of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who was jailed in Russia in 2020 on spying charges, President Joe Biden’s top hostage negotiator said on Sunday. Hostage affairs envoy Roger Carstens told MSBNC that the president and Secretary of State Antony […]
Brittney Griner in ‘good spirits,’ reunites with wife in U.S. after Russian prisoner swap – National | Globalnews.ca
Brittney Griner returned to the United States Friday and was reunited with her wife nearly 10 months after her detention in Russia made the basketball star the most high-profile American jailed abroad and set off a political firestorm. Griner’s status as an openly gay Black woman, her prominence in women’s basketball and her imprisonment in […]