Brittney Griner urges Biden to bring home reporter Gershkovich accused of spying in Russia

(Reuters) – U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who was freed from a Russian penal colony in a prisoner exchange last year, has urged the Biden administration to keep using “every tool possible” to win the release of a U.S. reporter accused of spying in Russia. Griner and her wife Cherelle said on Instagram that “our hearts are filled with great concern” for Evan Gershkovich, the journalist arrested by Russia’s FSB security service last week in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg. The Kremlin says Gershkovich was using journalism as a cover for spying activity – something his newspaper, the Wall Street…