President Joe Biden deserves credit for the prisoner swap agreement that led to Russia releasing Americans Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, Paul Whelan, and other Germans and Russians on Thursday. While this deal carries a heavy risk of boosting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s appetite for aggressive intelligence operations, it deserves support. Biden and his key negotiator, […]
Six months from retirement and in desperate need of a foreign policy win, President Joe Biden just got one with the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, U.S. citizen Paul Whelan, Washington Post columnist Vladimir Kara-Murza, and 13 other prisoners from Russia. The Americans, working with Germany, Poland, Slovenia, and Norway, agreed to send […]
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — It’s just past 11:00 a.m., and former President Donald Trump is nearly seven hours from taking the stage at the Farm Show Complex here in Dauphin County, and yet the traffic to get into the massive Farm Show campus stretches for miles along U.S. 22. Nine-year-old Colton Ream is walking with his […]
A plea deal for the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks and his two accomplices is being slammed by some families of the victims, New York City firefighters and high-profile Republicans. Critics say the agreement will effectively prevent the public from ever knowing what really happened, and contend that those most responsible for nearly...
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The White House on Thursday trumpeted what it called a “joyous day” as Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan were released as part of a major prisoner swap with Russia. The exchange of prisoners involved several countries in addition to the U.S. and Russia and comes after Gershkovich had been sentenced...
The successful agreement between Russia, the U.S. and a host of other nations to exchange prisoners marked the culmination of years of intensive diplomacy. But the White House on Thursday played down the possibility the prisoner exchange would lead to a thawing of relations with Russia on a host of other global security issues —...