Brittney Griner freed in prisoner swap; Paul Whelan remains in Russian prison

Paul Whelan was left behind. Again. President Joe Biden announced Thursday morning his administration traded convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout — who'd been serving time in a U.S. federal prison since 2011 — for Brittney Griner, a WNBA superstar who was arrested in February after cannabis oil was found in her luggage at an airport near Moscow.
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