The top priority of the Phoenix Mercury front office has been to help bring Brittney Griner home safely after she was wrongfully detained by Russia in February. It didn’t matter if their eight-time All-Star center never played in the WNBA again. On Friday, Griner put speculation on her basketball future to rest in her first public statement since touching down on U.S. soil. And it surely brought jubilation to the Mercury, some of whom surprised Griner with a visit that morning. “I also… Source link
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The top priority of the Phoenix Mercury front office has been to help bring Brittney Griner home safely after she was wrongfully detained by Russia in February. It didn’t matter if their eight-time All-Star center never played in the WNBA again. On Friday, Griner put speculation on her basketball future to rest in her first public statement since touching down on U.S. soil. And it surely brought jubilation to the Mercury, some of whom surprised Griner with a visit that morning. “I also… Source link
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Nearly every day this week, a new lawmaker has lined up behind the growing effort to codify into law a fundamental rethinking of the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia. On Monday, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the influential head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a statement calling for the US to “immediately freeze all aspects of our cooperation with Saudi Arabia.” Later in the week, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Rep. Ro Khanna released a bill to temporarily halt… Source link
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