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A picture taken on July 27, 2021 shows journalist Evan Gershkovich. - A US reporter for The Wall Street Journal newspaper has been detained in Russia for espionage, Russian news agencies reported Thursday, citing the FSB security services. "The FSB halted the illegal activities of US citizen Evan Gershkovich... a correspondent of the Moscow bureau of the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, accredited with the Russian foreign ministry," the FSB was quoted as saying. He is "suspected of spying in the interests of the American government" and of collecting information "on an enterprise of the Russian military-industrial complex," agencies reported. (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. classifies WSJ reporter as ‘wrongfully detained’ by Russia

A United States government initiative to put pressure on Russia to release Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Evan Gershkovich was launched on Monday, when the State Department declared him to have been “wrongfully detained” after his arrest by Russian security forces last month.

A kindergarten class socially distances while preparing to leave their classroom at Stark Elementary School on October 21, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. Stamford Public Schools is continuing the fall semester with a hybrid model of in-class and distance learning, occasionally quarantining individual classes when a student or faculty member tests positive for COVID-19. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Virginia mom of 6-year-old who shot teacher charged

According to the Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, a grand jury in Virginia has indicted the mother of a 6-year-old boy accused of shooting his first-grade teacher earlier this year.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the COVID-19 response and the vaccination in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC on May 17, 2021. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden: I’m ‘not prepared to announce’ 2024 presidential run yet

President Biden stated on Monday that he plans to seek for re-election in 2024 but has not quite prepared himself to do so.

Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville speaks prior to a vote on his expulsion from the legislature at the State Capitol Building on April 6, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was expelled on a vote along party lines after he and two other Democratic reps led a protest at the Tennessee State Capitol building in the wake of a mass shooting where three students and three adults were killed on March 27 at the Covenant School in Nashville. (Photo by Seth Herald/Getty Images)

Nashville City Council re-elects Rep. Justin Jones

The Nashville Metropolitan Council has voted on Monday to reinstate expelled Democrat Representative Justin Jones.

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 31: In an aerial view, trucks move along Interstate 80 on March 31, 2023 in Berkeley, California. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will allow California's plan to phase out a variety of diesel-powered trucks in the state and require truck manufacturers to sell more zero-emission electric trucks. Half of all heavy trucks sales of heavy truck in California will have to be electric by 2035. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

5-year-old girl shot and killed on CA freeway, authorities say

California Highway Patrol (CHP) said that a 5-year-old child was shot and killed just before 7 p.m. on a freeway in the Bay Area on Saturday.

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - APRIL 06: U.S. Special Representative for North Korea, Sung Kim (R), talks with South Korea's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, Kim Gunn (L), prior to a meeting at the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs on April 06, 2023 in Seoul, South Korea. The top nuclear envoys of South Korea and the United States are holding bilateral talks in Seoul over North Korea's denuclearization and other pending issues. (Photo by Song Kyung-Seok - Pool/Getty Images)

South Korea calls for ‘appropriate measures’ after Pentagon documents are leaked

A senior South Korean government official has said at a briefing that he will request the United States to take “appropriate measures” after completing an investigation into Pentagon documents that were stolen from U.S. intelligence.