BudmanTX
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that jelled SOB isn't gonna get paid at all......Shocking! Lol, not.
Rudy Giuliani still waiting to be paid by Trump, documents reveal
Giuliani is owed millions for legal fees.www.newsweek.com
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I am aware of it. Like all else coming from that man, it was a branding campaign without the actions it sought to sell.
Nugnewbie
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Canadian-born captive and American journalist freed in prisoner swap with Russia
Canadian-born Paul Whelan and an honorary Canadian citizen were set free Thursday as the United States and Russia completed their largest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history.
hanimmal
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Canadian-born captive and American journalist freed in prisoner swap with Russia
Canadian-born Paul Whelan and an honorary Canadian citizen were set free Thursday as the United States and Russia completed their largest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history.www.ctvnews.ca
BarnBuster
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Largest U.S.-Russia Prisoner Swap In Post-Soviet History: What To Know
The 24 people freed included a collection of journalists and political dissidents, suspected spies, a computer hacker and a fraudster.
.. that we know of
Dec. 8, 2022 - WNBA star Brittney Griner was swapped for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, the "Merchant of Death,"
April 2022 - U.S. Marine veteran Trevor Reed was released from Russian custody on April 27, 2022, in exchange for Konstantin Yaroshenko
July 2010 - Ten Russian sleeper agents detained in the U.S. as part of the so-called "Illegals Program" were exchanged for four prisoners held in Russia.
One of the freed Russian prisoners was Sergei Skripal, who was convicted of high treason for working as a double agent for the United Kingdom.
September 1986 - The second of two prisoner exchanges in the year 1986 came after U.S. News & World Report correspondent Nicholas Daniloff was arrested on Sept. 2 and accused of espionage by the KGB. The U.S. believed Daniloff's arrest was in retaliation for the recent capture of Gennadi Zakharov, a Soviet citizen employed at the United Nations in New York City.
February 1986 - Natan Sharansky was the first political prisoner released by then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Feb. 11, 1986. Sharansky was accused of being a U.S. spy. He spent nine years in prison. He and three low-level Western spies were swapped for Czech spies Karl Koecher and wife Hana Koecher, who had been arrested two years earlier in New York City, along with Soviet bloc spies Yevgeni Zemlyakov, Marian Zacharski and Detlef Scharfenorth, held in West Germany, said Reuters
June 1985 - Polish former intelligence officer Marian Zacharski was swapped alongside three other Soviet agents in exchange for 23 Americans held for espionage in Eastern Europe on June 12, 1985. Zacharaski was arrested in 1981 and convicted of espionage. The swap took place after three years of negotiations, Reuters noted.
February 1962 - The first major prisoner swap between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is commonly known as the "Bridge of Spies" exchange. Convicted Soviet spy Rudolf Abel was swapped for American pilot Francis Gary Powers on the Glienicke Bridge on Feb. 10, 1962
Nugnewbie
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An appeals court has revived a challenge to President Biden's Medicare drug price reduction program
A constitutional challenge to the Biden administration program enabling Medicare to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs has been revived by a federal appeals court.
apnews.com
Nugnewbie
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Top Chinese economist disappears after criticising Xi Jinping in private chat – report
Zhu Hengpeng, who worked for an influential government thinktank, has reportedly not been seen in public since making disparaging remarks on WeChat
www.theguardian.com