James Hookway

The British, known for delightful digs like “tosspot,” “prat” and “plonker,” are facing a crisis of slang as TikTok turns younger generations onto more basic turns of phrase.

Russia-U.S. exchange is the largest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War.

Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker described the moment Evan Gershkovich walked free from a Russian plane as a moment of great joy for the reporter and his family, and that publication has set in place a plan to e

The president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, where Russian-American citizen Alsu Kurmasheva works as an editor, praised her imminent release as part of the prisoner exchange that freed Evan Gershkovich and expressed his thanks to the U.S. government to secure her freedom. “Alsu’s release makes

The German government’s spokesman said the decision to work with the U.S. and other countries in securing the release of Evan Gershkovich and 15 other people held in Russia and Belarus, several of whom are German citizens, was carefully considered. “The release was only possible by deporting and tr

Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, issued a statement via Russia’s TASS news service crediting the return of eight Russian citizens in Thursday’s prisoner exchange to what it called the “systematic work of Russian government agencies and foreign partners.” “The Russians were exchanged for a

After Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in a Russian prison camp in February, the most significant of Vladimir Putin’s critics still left alive was Vladimir Kara-Murza. A British-Russian writer, he had long campaigned against Putin’s government and stood against the war in Ukraine. He w

Russia is releasing 16 prisoners from around the world, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, in exchange for eight prisoners with Russian ties—including alleged hackers and spies. The exchange is a stark il

Genealogists try to trace Irish heritage wherever they can. With Kamala Harris’s running mate, things got complicated.

The push to abolish hereditary seats in the House of Lords strikes some of its members-for-life as undemocratic.