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With Biden and US officials making deals, could other Texans detained abroad be home soon?

WASHINGTON — After the White House secured the release of WNBA star and Houston native Brittney Griner from Russian prison in early December — the U.S.’s second prisoner swap of the year with Russia — it committed to bringing home all other Americans wrongfully detained abroad.

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Trump claims he turned down prisoner swap for Michigan's Whelan

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump said over the weekend that he had turned down a proposed one-for-one prisoner swap with Russia that would have brought Michigan's Paul Whelan home.

Tribune News Service

Griner case latest in string of high-profile prisoner swaps

Delicate negotiations between the United States and Russia led to basketball star Brittney Griner’s return in exchange for notorious arms dealer once nicknamed “the Merchant of Death.”

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Why getting Whelan freed from Russia is proving harder than Griner

WASHINGTON — For the second time this year, the family of Michigan's Paul Whelan was left "devastated" that Russia agreed to swap an American prisoner for the return of a Russian inmate, and that, again, that American wasn't Paul.

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Griner’s release raises fresh concerns about fate of Paul Whelan

As US welcomes release of basketball star Brittney Griner, calls grow to free other US citizen detained in Russia.

Al Jazeera

Biden vows to bring longtime detainee Paul Whelan home from Russia too

The former U.S. Marine has been held in Russia since 2018. As supporters celebrate Brittney Griner's release, they — Whelan himself included — are wondering why he was left behind.

WEKU

Report: Why Paul Whelan Wasn’t Included in Deal for Griner

Here are the details regarding Whelan’s continued detainment in Russia.

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Brittney Griner released in Russian swap

The basketball star was first detained in February, and had recently been moved to a Russian penal colony

Salon

Paul Whelan’s Family Issues Statement After Griner’s Release

The former Marine remains imprisoned in Russia after Thursday’s deal to release the WNBA star.

Sports Illustrated

Russia frees WNBA star Brittney Griner in prisoner swap

The swap, at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine, achieved a top goal for President Joe Biden, but carried a heavy price — and left behind an American jailed for nearly four years in Russia.

Chicago Sun-Times

US basketball star Brittney Griner freed in prisoner swap for arms dealer Viktor Bout

Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, American officials said. The swap, at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine, achieved a top goal for President Joe Biden, but carried a heavy price…

France 24

Griner for Bout: WNBA star freed in US-Russia prisoner swap

Russia has freed WNBA star Brittney Griner in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout

The Independent UK

Who is Viktor Bout, the arms dealer who could be swapped for Griner?

The life of Viktor Bout reads like a spy thriller.

Reuters

White House blasts Brittney Griner’s appeal hearing as a ‘sham’

President Joe Biden said U.S. efforts to secure the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner are ongoing but have not swayed the Kremlin, hours after a Russian court rejected her appeal of a nine-year drug smuggling sentence.

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Russian court rejects appeal of jailed US basketball star Griner

A Russian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by WNBA star Brittney Griner against her nine-year sentence for drug smuggling, Interfax reported.

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Brittney Griner’s wife thanks Biden for efforts as WNBA star spends birthday in prison

The wife of WNBA star and Texas native Brittney Griner released a video thanking President Joe Biden for his administration’s ongoing efforts to secure Griner’s release, seven months after she was arrested in Russia on drug charges.

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Freed from Russia, Texas native Trevor Reed touts GOP Rep. Pfluger in new election ad

WASHINGTON — Trevor Reed, the Fort Worth native and Marine veteran who was imprisoned in Russia for almost three years, has thrown his support behind freshman Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, in a new video ad for the congressman, who’s running for reelection this Nov. 8.

The Texas Tribune

Brittney Griner’s wife says WNBA star is at “weakest moment” before final hearing could send her to a Russian labor camp

The two-time Olympic champion’s wife spoke out for the first time since Griner’s sentencing two months ago in an interview with CBS’ Gayle King.

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Brittney Griner's USA teammates aim to defend FIBA World Cup as hope for plea deal with Russia grows

Brittney Griner's teammates will be watching for developments as they start their defence of the FIBA World Cup title in Sydney on Thursday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Biden will meet with families of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan

The separate meetings are to be the first in-person encounter between President Joe Biden and the families and are taking place amid sustained but so far unsuccessful efforts by the administration to secure the Americans’ release from Russia.

The Independent UK

Griner, Whelan families to meet Biden amid US-Russia talks

Senior administration officials say President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with the families of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom remain jailed in Russia

Sports Illustrated

Report: Former Gov. Attended Griner Talks in Moscow

Bill Richardson helped in the prisoner swap that freed Trevor Reed earlier this year.

Reuters

Sullivan concludes tenure as U.S. ambassador to Russia, leaves Moscow

John Sullivan, a Trump appointee who told Reuters earlier this year it would take "a crowbar" to get him out of Moscow, has left Russia after finishing his tenure as U.S. ambassador there, the U.S. embassy in the country said on Sunday.

Benzinga

Filthy Cells, Rotting Food In Russian Prison: Trevor Reed On What Brittney Griner And Paul Whelan Are Experiencing

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The Independent UK

Wife of Navy officer jailed in Japan for killing to pedestrians takes pleas for his release to DC

Navy Lieutenant Ridge Alkonis’s wife, Brittanny Alkonis, relatives and friends rallied outside of the White House for his release

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