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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom remain jailed in Russia, senior administration officials told The Associated Press.

Former NBA champion Dennis Rodman has decided against traveling to Russia for the freeing of imprisoned WNBA star Brittney Griner. 

With Joe Biden having failed entirely to free WNBA star Brittney Griner from her Russian cell, the Biden administration has given the okay to former NBA player Dennis Rodman to head to Russia and try to win her release.

On Monday, Russian attorneys for WNBA star Brittney Griner filed an appeal of her nine-year sentence for possession of illegal drugs.

“I want [Brittney Griner] to return back home. … [but] we cannot trade that horrible human being for her. It’s just not a fair trade,” professional basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom said during a Friday appearance on Fox News’ The Story with Martha MacCallum.

Friday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for her double standard of justice on WNBA player Brittney Griner.

A Russian court sentenced U.S. citizen and WNBA player Brittney Griner to nine and a half years in prison on Thursday for smuggling cannabis oil into Russia in February.

A Russian court sentenced American basketball player Brittney Griner to nine and a half years in prison on drug charges Thursday morning, renewing rumors that the Biden administration might trade Russian gun-running supervillain Viktor Bout – and perhaps even other high-value prisoners demanded by Moscow – in exchange for Griner’s freedom.

Social media exploded in condemnation Thursday after NFL reporter James Palmer outed fellow reporter Ian Rapoport for making a joke about “surviving a Russian prison” on the same day WNBA star Brittney Griner’s 9-year prison sentence was announced in Russia.

The Kremlin on Friday jumped less than 24-hours after WNBA star Brittney Griner was hit with a nine-year prison sentence for drug possession to offer Washington immediate prisoner swaps.

Social media reacted swiftly to the Russian courts’ 9-1/2-year prison sentence for WNBA player Brittney Griner on drug charges.

KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — A judge in Russia convicted American basketball star Brittney Griner of drug possession and smuggling Thursday and sentenced her to nine years in prison.

Former President Donald Trump blasted the proposed plan to swap WNBA player Brittney Griner with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.

The detention of WNBA star Brittney Griner in Russia is a result of her having to travel there because she was unable “to make equal pay here in the United States,” according to an MSNBC segment that highlighted the “disparity in American life” as WNBA players are paid less than NBA players on average.

The United States has reportedly offered the Russian government a deal to free two imprisoned Americans, WNBA star Brittney Griner and corporate security executive Paul Whelan.

WNBA star Brittney Griner said she fears that language translation problems have added to the troubles as she faces drug possession charges.

KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — A lawyer for WNBA star Brittney Griner at her drug possession trial in Russia on Friday gave the court a U.S. doctor’s letter recommending she use medical cannabis to treat pain.

Former Boston Celtics star Enes Kanter Freedom tore into LeBron James for his comments over WNBA star Brittney Griner.

Basketball star LeBron James has walked back comments he made regarding imprisoned WNBA star Brittney Griner.

LeBron James has finally spoken up about WNBA star Brittney Griner and has said if he were her, he wouldn’t even want to return to America.

Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson plans to travel to Moscow in the next few weeks to win the freedom of WNBA star Brittney Griner.

Singer Macy Gray is accusing NBC’s ‘Today’ show of refusing to allow her band to wear T-Shirts with the slogan “Free Brittney Griner.”

WNBA star Brittney Griner has been one of the league’s most outspoken players when it comes to protesting the national anthem, even as she makes patriotic appeals for the U.S. to arrange her release from a Russian prison sentence.

Megan Rapinoe, anthem kneeler and outspoken left-wing advocate received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Joe Biden on Thursday.

WNBA star Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty to possession of a banned drug, but denies intentionally breaking Russia’s strict drug laws.

On the tail of a letter by WNBA star Britney Griner sent to Joe Biden pleading for help, MSNBC host Al Sharpton says he wants to visit her.

The coach of WNBA star Brittney Griner blasted Joe Biden’s White House for doing next to nothing to help get the player out of a Russian jail.

Cherelle Griner, wife of WNBA player Brittney Griner, said President Biden’s silence on her wife’s detainment is “very disheartening” after identifying him as the “one person that can go get her.”

MOSCOW (AP) — More than four months after she was arrested at a Moscow airport for cannabis possession, a Russian court has set the start date of the criminal trial of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner for July 1.

WASHINGTON (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner tried to call her wife nearly a dozen times through the American embassy in Russia on the couple’s fourth anniversary Saturday, but they never connected since the phone line at the embassy was not staffed, Cherelle Griner said Monday.

Cherelle Griner believes that President Joe Biden is the “one person” who can bring back her wife, WNBA player Brittney Griner, from Russia, where she has been detained for 96 days after officials allegedly found drugs in her luggage at a Moscow airport. Cherelle also believes that things would be different if Brittney was an NBA player.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced Tuesday that the league is working with “hostage negotiators” and “every level of government” for the release of WNBA center and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner. The WNBA star has sat for nearly four months in a Russian prison after being charged with drug trafficking.

WNBA player Brittney Griner has spent nearly four months in detention in Russia after being charged with drug trafficking.

MOSCOW (AP) — The lawyer for WNBA star Brittney Griner said Friday her pre-trial detention in Russia has been extended by one month.

The Biden administration has reportedly decided that WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner has been wrongfully detained on drug charges.

One of the WNBA’s most legendary figures, Lisa Leslie, revealed on a recent podcast that she was told not “make a big fuss” over Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner’s detention in Russia.