By Ben Kellerman and Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) – American basketball star Brittney Griner stepped onto the red carpet at the star-studded Met Gala on Monday, embracing a larger…
SIMON HANKINSON: The Brittney Griner Fiasco Taught Russia That Arresting Americans Works Simon Hankinson on April 27, 2023 The term “a king’s ransom” comes from the ancient tradition of capturing…
(Reuters) – American basketball star Brittney Griner, who was freed from a Russian penal colony in a high-profile prisoner exchange last year, will share her “harrowing experience” in a memoir…
(Reuters) – U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who was freed from a Russian penal colony in a prisoner exchange last year, has urged the Biden administration to keep using “every…
By Brendan O’Brien and Amy Tennery (Reuters) -U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who on Friday left an Army medical center where she had been recuperating following her release from a…
SIMON HANKINSON: Brittney Griner Trade Shows Who The Real Suckers At The Table Are Simon Hankinson on December 11, 2022 There’s an old joke among poker players: if you can’t…
SIMON HANKINSON: Brittney Griner Trade Shows Who The Real Suckers At The Table Are Simon Hankinson on December 11, 2022 There’s an old joke among poker players: if you can’t…
Black conservative activists commented on the Biden administration’s decision to trade WNBA player Brittney Griner for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, saying they hope she learned the “true cost of…
‘Doing Bad Deals’: GOP Rep Who Served In Elite Army Unit Rips Biden Over Trading ‘Merchant Of Death’ For Griner Harold Hutchison on December 8, 2022 A Republican congressman who…
Family Of Ex-Marine Left Behind In Russia ‘Devastated’ After Brittney Griner Released In High-Level Prisoner Swap Micaela Burrow on December 8, 2022 The family of the ex-Marine jailed in Russia…
Brittney Griner Freed From Russia In Exchange For ‘Merchant Of Death’, Ex-Marine Left Behind Micaela Burrow on December 8, 2022 Russia has released jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner in exchange…
DUBAI (Reuters) -The United Arab Emirates president and Saudi crown prince led mediation efforts that secured the release of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in a prisoner swap with Russia,…
(Reuters) -U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was freed from jail in Russia on Thursday in exchange for the release of Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer jailed in the United…
(Reuters) – A U.S. official said on Thursday that U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who had been jailed in Russia in charges of possessing and smuggling illegal drugs, was now…
(Reuters) – U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has been taken to a penal colony in the Russian region of Mordovia, her lawyers said in a statement on Thursday. Reuters had…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday said that a potential prisoner exchange with the United States to free U.S. WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner, who is serving a nine-year…
Brittney Griner Condemned To Nine-Year Prison Sentence After Russian Court Overturns Appeal Micaela Burrow on October 25, 2022 A Moscow court denied U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner’s appeal to overturn…
KRASNOGORSK, Russia (Reuters) – U.S. WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner on Tuesday heard the Russian state prosecutor in her appeal hearing tell the judges that her nine-year jail sentence for…
By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) – WNBA star Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who are being held in Russia, could gain release by the end of…
‘Quiet Diplomacy’: Russia Rips US For Making Griner Prisoner Swap Public Ahead Of Midterms Micaela Burrow on August 18, 2022 Russia said it is conducting “quiet diplomacy” with the U.S.…
By Filipp Lebedev MOSCOW -The defence team of Brittney Griner, the U.S. basketball star jailed for nine years in Russia on drugs charges, appealed on Monday against her conviction for…
(Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday that possible prisoner exchanges with the United States should not be discussed in public because if they were then they would never take…
KHIMKI, Russia -U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner said “I love my family” as she was led out of a Russian courtroom in handcuffs after being jailed for nine years on…
(Reuters) – The nine-year prison sentence given to U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in Russia “compounds the injustice of her wrongful detention,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on…
(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will likely try to speak with his Russian counterpart on the sidelines of a meeting in Cambodia, White House national security spokesperson…