NEW YORK – Paul Simon’s latest honor places him among public figures well outside the music industry. He is this year’s winner of PEN America’s PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, which previously has been given to former President Barack Obama, the late Nobel laureate Toni Morrison and Stephen King among others. The 82-year-old Simon is known … Read more
Washington — Russian President Vladimir Putin said “an agreement can be reached” with the U.S. to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained for nearly one year on unsubstantiated espionage charges. Putin was asked by former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson in an interview this week if he would release Gershkovich, who … Read more
MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow Friday extended the pretrial detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, until the end of March, meaning the journalist will spend at least a year behind bars in Russia. United States Consul General Stuart Wilson attended the hearing at Lefortovo District Court, which … Read more
Paul Whelan, an American who’s been imprisoned in Russia for 5 years on espionage charges that both he and the U.S. government dismiss as baseless, has said it’s “unfathomable” that the Biden administration has “left me behind” while other Americans have been freed in prisoner swaps. Whelan told CBS News’ partner network BBC News in … Read more
A Russian-American journalist working for a U.S. government-funded media company has been detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent, according to her employer. Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty editor Alsu Kurmasheva is the second U.S. journalist to be detained in Russia this year. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was … Read more