The Latest Breaking News from Brittney Griner

Trump criticized a potential prisoner exchange that would return WNBA star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan to the United States.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

‘You cannot help but wonder if he’s saying that because she’s a black basketball player’

‘He’s absolutely one of the worst in the world, and he’s going to be given his freedom because a potentially spoiled person goes into Russia loaded up with drugs’

Basketball icon has been detained in Moscow for five months and counting

Donald Trump made clear his opposition to recent prisoner exchange talks that may or may not be underway between the U.S.

The life of Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer jailed in the United States and linked to a possible swap for two U.S. citizens detained by Moscow, sometimes reads like a far-fetched spy thriller.

While some have praised the Biden administration for the deal, others are upset over the prospect of releasing Viktor Bout, nicknamed the ‘Merchant of Death’

‘He’s absolutely one of the worst in the world, and he’s going to be given his freedom because a potentially spoiled person goes into Russia loaded up with drugs’

The Texas congressman spoke about Griner’s ongoing imprisonment with TMZ earlier this week.

WASHINGTON — Viktor Bout has long been the type of shadowy figure who inhabits spy novels, a convicted arms dealer who commanded a billion-dollar operation of aircraft fleets to supply weapons to notorious dictators, drug lords and armies fighting wars — and sometimes one another.