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President Joe Biden, from left, and Vice President Kamala Harris greet reporter Evan Gershkovich at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., following his release as part of a 24-person prisoner swap between Russia and the United States, Aug. 1, 2024. Bloomberg News is apologizing for a premature story written about the prisoner exchange and says it has disciplined the journalists involved. The story was put out by Bloomberg hours before an embargo was lifted by the White House. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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Bloomberg apologizes for premature story on prisoner swap and disciplines the journalists involved
Mon,08/05/24-11:23AM , 145 Reads
Bloomberg News apologized and disciplined employees on Monday for prematurely publishing a story last week that revealed a prisoner exchange involving the United States and Russia that led to the release of detained American journalist Evan Gershk
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks to released Russian prisoners upon their arrival at the Vnukovo government airport outside Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. The United States and Russia have made their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history. (Kirill Zykov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

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US and Russia tout prisoner swap as a victory. But perceptions of the deal show stark differences
By JOANNA KOZLOWSKA - Associated Press
Fri,08/02/24-11:04PM , 350 Reads
President Vladimir Putin strode along the red carpet between two rows of rifle-toting honor guards and warmly greeted intelligence operatives freed in the biggest prisoner swap with the West since the Cold War.
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Freed Russian prisoners Ilya Yashin, Andrei Pivovarov and Vladimir Kara-Murza, from left, enter a press conference in Bonn, Germany, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, a day after they were released as part of a 24-person prisoner swap between Russia and the United States. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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Dissidents freed in prisoner swap vow to keep up fight against Putin, recount details of release
By DASHA LITVINOVA - Associated Press
Fri,08/02/24-8:20AM , 331 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was suddenly moved to a detention center in Moscow from a Siberian prison, he thought he was being taken there to be shot. Opposition activist Ilya Yashin said he was warned by a security operative that he would die in prison if he returned to Russia.
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A memorial for Jonathan Lewis Jr. is set up in an alleyway near Rancho High School in eastern Las Vegas, Nov. 21, 2023. Four high school students have agreed to plead guilty in juvenile court to voluntary manslaughter in the fatal beating of Lewis in a plea deal that will keep them from being tried as adults, lawyers said during a hearing Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ty O'Neil, File)

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4 Las Vegas teens agree to plead guilty as juveniles in deadly beating of high school student
By SCOTT SONNER AND KEN RITTER - Associated Press
Thu,08/01/24-5:24PM , 157 Reads
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Four Las Vegas teenagers accused in the fatal beating of their high school classmate have agreed to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in a deal that will keep them from being tried as adults, lawyers said
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