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A policeman removes the handcuffs from WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner in a courtroom prior to a hearing in the Khimki district court, just outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 15, 2022. Griner was arrested in February at the Russian capital's Sheremetyevo Airport when customs officials said they found vape canisters with cannabis oil in her luggage. She has been jailed since then, facing up to 10 years in prison if convicted. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)

Brittney Griner had doctor’s note for cannabis use, lawyer says

by Jim Heintz Associated PressJuly 15, 2022July 15, 2022

KHIMKI, Russia — 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.Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and standout…

FILE - WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted to a courtroom for a hearing, in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 7, 2022. The drug possession trial of WNBA star Griner has resumed, with the head of the Russian club she plays for in the offseason and a teammate from that squad testifying in support of her character and what she has meant for women’s basketball in the country. Griner, who pleaded guilty last week, did not testify as...

WNBA’s Griner gets support at trial from character witnesses

by Jim Heintz Associated PressJuly 14, 2022

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted to a courtroom for a hearing, in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner returns to a Russian court on Thursday amid a growing chorus of calls for Washington to do more to secure her release nearly five months after being arrested on drug charges. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

WNBA’s Griner pleads guilty at her drug trial in Russia

by Jim Heintz Associated PressJuly 7, 2022July 7, 2022

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted to a courtroom for a hearing, in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 1, 2022. U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner is set to go on trial in a Moscow-area court Friday. The proceedings that are scheduled to begin Friday come about 4 1/2 months after she was arrested on cannabis possession charges at an airport while traveling to play for a Russian team. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

WNBA’s Brittney Griner goes on trial in Russian court

by Jim Heintz Associated PressJuly 1, 2022July 1, 2022

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 1987 file photo U.S. President Ronald Reagan, right, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev exchange pens during the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signing ceremony in the White House East Room in Washington, D.C. Gorbachev's translator Pavel Palazhchenko stands in the middle. Trump's announcement that the United States would leave the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or INF, treaty brought sharp criticism on Sunday Oct. 21, 2018, from Russian officials...

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Bolton faces tense talks with Russia over nuclear treaty

by Jim Heintz Associated PressOctober 21, 2018

FILE - In this Monday, June 28, 2004 file photo, University of Michigan Professor Gerard Mourou, center, and fellow research scientists Anatoly Makisimchuk, left, and Victor Yanovsky talk about the potential of the laser dubbed Hercules that has been built over the past five years at the University of Michigan lab. American Arthur Ashkin, Canadian Donna Strickland, and French scientist Gerard Mourou win the 2018 Nobel Prize for work in laser physics. (AP Photo/The Ann Arbor News, Robert...

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Scientists from US, France, Canada win Nobel for laser work

by David Keyton Associated Press, and Jim Heintz Associated PressOctober 2, 2018

The Nobel prize laureate in medicine or physiology 2018 is shown on the screen James P Allison, left, and Tasuku Honjo, during the presentation at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday Oct. 1, 2018. The citation for this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine says the two honorees developed therapies for treating cancer. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT via AP)

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Researchers in cancer care win Nobel Prize

by Jim Heintz Associated Press, and Lauran Neergaard Associated PressOctober 1, 2018

FILE In this file grab taken from CCTV and issued by the Metropolitan Police in London on Wednesday Sept. 5, 2018, Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov walk on Fisherton Road, Salisbury, England on March 4, 2018. President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 that Russia has identified the two men that Britain named as suspects in the poisoning of a former Russian spy, and that there is "nothing criminal" about them. (Metropolitan Police via AP, File)

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Russian suspects in poisoning: We were in UK as tourists

by Jim Heintz Associated Press, and Jill Lawless Associated PressSeptember 14, 2018

Vladimir Putin sits in his Kremlin cabinet prior his inauguration ceremony as new Russia’s president in Moscow, Russia on Monday, May 7. Putin won the six-year term in March elections where he tallied 77 percent of the vote.

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Putin sworn in for 4th term; promises economic reforms

by Jim Heintz Associated PressMay 7, 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin waves after speaking to supporters during a rally near the Kremlin in Moscow, Sunday, March 18, 2018. Vladimir Putin headed to an overwhelming win in Russia's presidential election Sunday, adding six years in the Kremlin for the man who has led the world's largest country for all of the 21st century. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Putin overwhelmingly wins another 6 years as Russian leader

by Jim Heintz Associated Press, and Vladimir Isachenkov Associated PressMarch 18, 2018