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U.S.-Russia ballerina freed in prisoner swap

Ksenia Karelina, jailed over a $50 donation to Ukraine, released after U.S.-Russia prisoner swap.

A meteor contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk, Russia on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in a photo taken by a mobile phone camera. The object streaked across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains region causing a shock wave and injuring hundreds of people, including many who were hurt by broken glass.

Astronomers are tracking an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more than 20 years.

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videoconference at the Kremlin in Moscow, on Saturday.

Putin apologizes to Azerbaijani leader for 'tragic incident' involving crashed plane

The Kremlin said air defense systems were firing near Grozny due to a Ukrainian drone strike as the airliner attempted to land, but stopped short of saying it was shot down by Russian air defenses.

Young Thug performs at half time at the game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Boston Celtics on November 17, 2021 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.

Why the judge in Young Thug’s trial was just recused from the case

Fulton County Chief Judge Ural Glanville was taken off the YSL RICO case this week after his actions in an ex parte meeting were deemed damaging to public perception of the case.

Young Thug, seen here in Los Angeles in 2021, plead guilty more than two years after being arrested and charged with participating in criminal gang activity.

Young Thug pleads guilty in YSL trial, will serve probation

The Atlanta rapper, who was charged with participating in criminal gang activity in what has become the longest criminal trial in Georgia history, suddenly changed his plea on Thursday.

<em>Wall Street Journal</em> reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Wednesday. Fifteen months after he was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg on espionage charges, Gershkovich returns there for his trial starting Wednesday behind closed doors.

U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich is on trial for espionage in Russia

The espionage trial for Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal correspondent, has begun in Russia's Ural mountain capital of Yekaterinburg — the same city where he was detained 15 months ago.

Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Tatar-Bashkir service, attends a court hearing in Kazan, Russia, in May. A Russian court has convicted Kurmasheva of spreading false information about the Russian army and sentenced her to 6½ years in prison after a secret trial, court records and officials said on Monday.

Russian-American journalist sentenced to 6.5 years in rapid, secret trial

Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was convicted of "spreading false information" about the Russian army.

FILE - Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands listening to the verdict in a glass cage of a courtroom inside the building of "Palace of justice," in Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 19, 2024.

US and Russia complete biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history, freeing Gershkovich and Whelan

The United States and Russia have completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history.

Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, looks out from inside a glass defendants' cage prior to a hearing in Yekaterinburg's Sverdlovsk Regional Court on June 26.

Russian court sentences U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison

A Russian court convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on charges of espionage Friday, sentencing him to 16 years in a Russian prison colony in a trial the U.S. denounced as a sham.

U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich stands inside a defendants' cage during a pretrial detention hearing at the Moscow City Court in Moscow on Sept. 19, 2023. Gershkovich was detained during a reporting trip in Russia in March 2023 and accused of spying — charges that he, the U.S. government and his employer, <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>, vehemently deny.

American journalist Evan Gershkovich to stand trial on espionage charges in Russia

Gershkovich was arrested while reporting in Russia for The Wall Street Journal. He has vehemently denied the charges against him, and President Biden has called his detention "totally illegal."

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