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Russia sentenced a woman to 12 years in prison for donating $51 to a Ukrainian charity
Ksenia Khavana, a 33-year-old amateur ballerina, pleaded guilty in a closed-door trial last week af…
Hannah Abraham
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Speculation mounts that a US-Russia prisoner swap is in the works
Recent disappearances from Russian prisons have fueled talk of a potential prisoner swap. Neither R…
Kelsey Vlamis
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I was part of Russia's prisoner swap with the US. Here's how it feels to finally, suddenly be free.
Aleksandra 'Sasha' Skochilenko was released in last week's prisoner swap. She told BI about her imp…
Joshua Nelken-Zitser
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Russia frees WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich in a major prisoner swap, report says
Russia freed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan in a ma…
Erin Snodgrass,Thibault Spirl…
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Photos capture the moment Americans released in a historic prisoner swap touch down on US soil
They were met by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris after being freed from Russia…
Sarah Gray,Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Videos show the moment Americans were freed from Russian captivity after high-stakes prisoner swap
Russia freed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan, and 14 ot…
Jake Epstein
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WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich sentenced to 16 years in a Russian prison
Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was sentenced to 16 years in Russian prison for espion…
Joshua Nelken-Zitser
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Russia has a history of going after dissidents. One senior Kremlin official has now warned freed prisoners to 'disguise themselves.'
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned freed dissidents to "adopt new names" and "disguise…
Cameron Manley
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Russia wants to arrest Alexei Navalny's widow after resistance leader died in prison
Yulia Navalny is being charged with running an "extremist" organization as she accuses Vladimir Put…
Jacob Shamsian
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Russian troops surrender to an elite brigade as the Kharkiv front holds, Ukraine says
In a video released by Ukraine's 3rd Assault Brigade, Russian troops appear to be surrendering in V…
Cameron Manley
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Ukraine war analyst says Russia keeps surprising him with just how bad its soldiers are: 'The bar is very, very low'
Russia's soldiers are getting worse and worse as the war goes on, but Russia fights with mass, not …
Sinéad Baker
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Lawyers for Caroline Ellison, Sam Bankman-Fried's ex, want zero prison time for her
Ellison's lawyers requested a non-custodial sentence for her in a court filing made on Tuesday.
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan,Jacob Sham…
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Russia is sending troops with zero combat experience to a key part of the front, Ukraine says
A Ukrainian official said that Russian troops now reinforcing Vovchansk, in Kharkiv, "have never se…
Mia Jankowicz
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How Saudi Arabia's ruler used chaos in the Middle East to get what he wants from the US
Crown Prince Mohammed, far from being isolated by the US, has just secured an end to the four-year …
Tom Porter
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Ukraine's army chief says Russia planned to launch a new attack from Kursk, but he got there first
Ukraine's incursion into Kursk thwarted Russia's own cross-border attack plans from the region, Ukr…
Thibault Spirlet
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After losing a chunk of Russian territory to Ukraine, Putin said it wasn't that important anyway
Putin argued that the attack didn't divert Russia from a more important mission — gaining ground in…
Tom Porter
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A musician made $10M streaming AI-written songs with fake accounts, prosecutors say
An AI-generated music scam led to a musician's arrest for using bots to get billions of streams, ea…
Hannah Abraham
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India, Pakistan exchange list of civilian prisoners, fishermen
India and Pakistan on Monday exchanged the lists of civilian prisoners and fishermen in each other'…
ANI
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San Quentin prison on lockdown as dozens suffer gastrointestinal illness. Prisoners say 'boiled chicken' is to blame.
Dozens needed medical care, men incarcerated at San Quentin said. Officials call it a gastrointesti…
Laura Italiano,Nicole Einbind…
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Their son died after a horrific hazing ritual at Penn State. This is what they want other parents of college-aged kids to know.
Timothy Piazza died in February 2017 while pledging Beta Theta Pi at Penn State. Now, his parents a…