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Journalist Evan Gershkovich and two other Americans touched down in Texas on Friday for medical checks, after being freed by Russia in a huge prisoner swap. Wall Street Journal reporter Gershkovich, former US marine Paul Whelan, and journalist Alsu Kurmasheva had hours earlier been greeted by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris during a brief stopover near Washington. Their arrival on US soil late on Thursday was met by cheers from family and friends as they disembarked a plane, before each embracing Biden and Harris. “It feels wonderful, it was a long time coming,” Biden told…

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