Biden brings WNBA star Brittney Griner home from Russian custody

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• Former home: Greenville, Delaware
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• Biden had a ‘painful’ decision to make to secure Griner’s release. He made it.
• Brittney Griner's family expresses gratitude to Biden, offers prayers for Paul Whelan's return
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Thursday's swap did not include another American that the US State Department has declared wrongfully detained, Paul Whelan. He speaks for millions of American citizens who agree that Griner’s release is a positive development. It’s easy for him, and other Americans to point the finger at Putin, but we’re not doing enough about the failings of our own criminal justice system. The announcement by the US State Department comes after a senior White House official claimed that China wants stabilised relations with the United States in the short term as it faces domestic economic challenges and pushback in Asia to its assertive diplomacy. Top US officials will be travelling to China next week to follow up on President Joe Biden’s recent conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, a news report has claimed.

Second, there are no media denunciations of the bid for foreign election interference or calls for an FBI probe. Nor is there a push for the White House to release the transcript of the call. Biden has already successfully negotiated a prisoner swap with Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.

Former home: Greenville, Delaware

"In Delaware in 2022, we don't have mail-in ballots, which is good, we don’t have COVID, which is good. And Biden was at the top of the ticket in 2020 and quite frankly that hurt me as a candidate running for Congress." Delaware Republicans held their state convention at the Rehoboth Convention Center, where Biden himself had spoken a day earlier in the same room to address May’s jobs report. Republicans in President Biden’s home state of Delaware held their convention on Saturday, sensing a renewed opportunity for electoral success in November as Democrats face trouble across the country and Biden’s approval ratings sag.

The organizers, who paused the strike in October, are seeking massive decarceration because of malnutrition, dilapidated facilities, overcrowding, and other abuses. Sharanda Jones — a first time nonviolent offender who is serving life in prison without parole for a drug conspiracy conviction — in Carswell Federal Prison in Texas. "I made a bad choice," she says, "but I shouldn't have to die in prison for one bad choice." Homer TLC had just four employees but $2 billion in annual revenue funneled through Delaware by the early 2000s – all of it derived from intellectual property, making it tax free. Given the U.S. average effective corporate tax rate of 23.4%, Home Depot was using the Delaware loophole to legally steal around $468 million dollars per year. Above all, the victims were residents of Georgia, the state where the company was founded and headquartered, and where that $2 billion would have been taxed – if it weren’t for Delaware.

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Biden owns two homes in his home state of Delaware, where he and his family moved when he was a 13-year-old boy. Though the Biden family now reside in the White House in Washington, D.C., he has multiple homes in his home state of Delaware, and across the U.S.A. It is unclear how much the property is worth now or if he has purchased any other.

According to a 2019 Forbes estimate, Biden and his wife Jill are worth $9 million, much of that accrued from speaking fees and book deals that came pouring in after his vice presidency. And while they are officially moving into America's grandest house today, the White House joins an already impressive group of stately digs owned by the President and First Lady. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the trade "was not a decision that the president made lightly."

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Notably absent from the swap was another American detained in Russia, Paul Whelan, who has been in Russian custody since 2018. Whelan, a corporate security director and former Marine, was given a 16-year prison sentence after being convicted of spying in 2020. Since news of the Griner-Bout swap became public, the administration has confronted criticism and concerns regarding what Bout may do as a free individual – and questions about the value of releasing such a notorious person. But, other than to say that the security assessment conducted on Bout was “thorough,” the official would not elaborate on how the US was able to be certain that the Russian arms dealer wouldn’t pose a future risk to the country.

Home Depot then “negotiated” a royalty payment for using that IP that reached 4% of gross sales in 1999. Of course, that’s a negotiation in name only, because two related entities can’t be trusted to realistically price the exchange of assets. Because Homer TLC’s revenues were entirely from intellectual property, and Delaware has no tax on IP income, this in effect meant Home Depot payed no tax on 4% of its gross revenue. Weitzman tells the eye-popping story of Home Depot, which made a representative use of the intangible revenue loophole. In the early 1990s, Home Depot introduced its now well-known mascot “Homer.” The company simultaneously created a Delaware subsidiary called Homer TLC, Inc. to house its mascot, branding, and other intellectual property. In the recent comedy of errors surrounding Elon Musk and Twitter, the state of Delaware played a crucial role in checking the bumbling billionaire’s freewheeling approach to contract law.

She stressed U.S. officials did all they could to try to bring both Americans home, but ultimately only Griner could be released. U.S. officials spent months trying to negotiate a deal with Russia that included both Whelan and Griner. The detainment of Griner, 32, who plays for the Phoenix Mercury, has been a flashpoint in fraught relations between the U.S. and Russia after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February. She will fly to a medical facility in San Antonio to receive treatment, where Cherelle will meet her, a senior administration official told NBC News.

While he was vice president, he rented out the home to the Secret Service for $2,200 and wanted to sell it when his son Beau got brain cancer to afford his treatments. In the summer of 2017, the Bidens bought a house on the Delaware Shore for $2.7 million. Overlooking Cape Henlopen State Park and just a couple blocks from the beach, the three-story home has six bedrooms, expansive porches, views of the Atlantic Ocean, and a backyard built for entertaining, with an outdoor kitchen, BBQ, and fireplace. “Throughout our careers, Jill and I have dreamed of being able to buy a place at the beach at home where we can bring the whole family. We feel very lucky that we're now able to make that happen and are looking forward to spending time with our family in the place that matters most to us in the world," he said in a statement.

The 300 or so guests dined in this glittery pavilion on the South Lawn. Photo courtesy of the White House Photo Office.President Joseph Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, and French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Marie-Claude Macron, follow military escorts down the White House Grand Staircase. Photo courtesy of the White House Photo Office.Dinner guests got from the White House to the pavilion by heated trolley.

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier was sentenced to life for allegedly killing two FBI agents, through there’s little evidence that he committed the crimes and multiple witnesses have said their since-recanted statements were made under FBI duress. Joy Powell is a Rochester, New York-based activist who challenged police brutality and was then convicted of burglary and assault with no evidence or witnesses. While serving her 16-year sentence for the assault, she was given another 25-year sentence for a cold case murder which she says she was falsely convicted of. Incarcerating people for political purposes is no anomaly in America. In a farm community like Hartly, in central Delaware, the median family income is only $29,375; in Laurel, in Delaware’s southernmost county, it’s just $30,329.