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Thanks to a groundbreaking deal negotiated between multiple countries, Americans held captive in Russia are now on their way back home. But former President Donald Trump isn’t as thrilled. President Joe Biden announced Thursday afternoon that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich — who has been wrongfully detained since March of 2023 — was on a plane back to the United States. Additionally, former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan was also released in the prisoner swap after first being arrested in 2018. ABC reported that the 24-prisoner exchange was the largest such negotiation since the Cold W…

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