Aruna Viswanatha

Russia freed wrongly convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of the largest and most complex East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War, in which he and more than a dozen others jailed by the Kremlin were exchanged for Russians held in the U.S. and Europe, including a convicted murderer.

The effort to bring home The Wall Street Journal reporter and others unfolded on three continents, involving spy agencies, billionaires, political power players and his fiercest advocate — his mother.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was turned over to U.S. officials in a choreographed handoff at an airport in Turkey on Thursday. He was among two dozen prisoners from at least six countries involved in an extraordinary swap. Among the others released: Russia received **Vadim Krasik

The prisoner swap–involving at least six countries and two dozen prisoners–was the result of months of secret diplomacy that entailed close coordination among the U.S. and some European allies and a complicated choreography to synchronize the movement of prisoners from multiple countries in order to

Prosecutors are investigating possible criminal negligence after the boat trip ended in a fatal wreck

Deloitte, Ernst & Young and others have signed thousands of contracts across China as Washington and Beijing seek to untangle economies.

U.S. officials don’t know who is behind the drones that have flown unhindered over sensitive national-security sites—or how to stop them.

Regular contacts between world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns. Topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters.

“Matt Gaetz, Once a Justice Department Target, Now Targets Justice Department; As attorney general, former lawmaker would be in charge of agency that probed sex-trafficking allegations; criticizes ‘lawfare’”:

As attorney general, former lawmaker would be in charge of agency that probed sex-trafficking allegations; criticizes “lawfare”