U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who was freed from a Russian penal colony in a prisoner exchange last year, has urged the Biden administration to keep using "every tool possible" to win the release of a U.S. reporter accused of spying in Russia. Griner and her wife, Cherelle, said on Instagram that "our hearts are filled with great concern" for Evan Gershkovich, the journalist arrested by Russia's FSB security service last week in Yekaterinburg. The Kremlin says Gershkovich was using journalism as a cover for spying activity. His newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, has vehemently denied it. To read the original story by Reuters, click here.
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