The Scoop: WSJ reporter’s release emphasizes importance of free press

Jobs report may indicate economic struggles ahead; Threads reaches major user milestone.After 491 days of unjust detention in Russia, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is free and back home in the United States.
Gershkovich, 32, spent the last year-plus behind bars on a false allegation of espionage. A Russian court sentenced him to 16 years in a high-security penal colony following a hurried and secret three-day trial, according to the Wall Street Journal.
 
 
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