Brittney Griner

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…

<!-- -->Viktor Bout spent 14 years in U.S. jail for arms trafficking. (File)Moscow: Viktor Bout, the arms dealer freed in a prisoner swap for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, said he wished her good luck on the tarmac in Abu…

Brittney Griner is back in the United States after an arduous 10-month saga in Russia. Yet nearly half of her WNBA peers opted to compete abroad this winter to supplement their incomes.None are playing in Russia, for obvious reasons —…

Thursday’s release of US basketball star Brittney Griner in exchange for a convicted Russian arms dealer has resurfaced an old question: Do prisoner swaps do more harm than good?Amid the celebrations following Griner’s return some critics,…

The United States and Russia again showed they can do business with their second prisoner exchange this year but, despite some suggestions by Moscow, few expect broader diplomacy over the Ukraine war.Working-level US and Russian diplomats…

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…

MOSCOW: Former Soviet air force pilot Viktor Bout, who was swapped for US basketball star Brittney Griner on Thursday, fuelled some of the world's bloodiest conflicts by trafficking weapons across several continents. In a career spanning…

American basketball star Brittney Griner landed in Texas on Friday morning, footage showed, after she was released from a Russian prison in a high-profile exchange for a notorious arms dealer on Thursday.Griner, 32, who was arrested in…

American basketball star Brittney Griner returned to the United States early Friday after being freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange following nearly 10 months in detention in Russia. The deal, which saw her swapped for notorious…

While every country and its laws are different, sometimes they can raise your eyebrows if you're from a part of the world with different value systems, or if these laws are against worldwide…