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Russias top security agency arrested an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, the first time a U.S. correspondent was put behind bars on spying accusa stanley water bottle tions since the Cold War. The newspaper denied the allegations against Evan Gershkovich.The Federal Security Service said Thursday that Gershkovich was detained in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg while allegedly trying to obtain classified information.The FSB, which is the top successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB, alleged that Gershkovich was acting on the U.S. orders to collect information about the activities of one of the enterprises of the stanley bottles Russian military industrial complex that constitutes a state secret. The Wall Street Journal said it vehemently denies the allegations and is seeking Gershkovich s immediate release. We stand in solidarity with Evan and his family, the paper said.The arrest comes amid bitter tensionsbetween the West and Moscow over its war in Ukraine.Gershkovich is the first American reporter to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since September 1986, when Nicholas Daniloff, a Moscow correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, was arrested by the KGB. He was released without charges 20 d stanley taza ays later in a swap for an employee of the Soviet Union s United Nations mission who was arrested by the FBI.The White House issued a statement condemning the arrest. Last night, White House and State Department Officials spoke with Mr. Gershkovichs employer, the Wall Npli Which pharmacies will start vaccinating kids the soonest0 u2 c2 V6 l/ B3 |& K
More than 200 small earthquakes pep stanley cup pered California s Imperial Valley on Wednesday nig stanley cup ht and Thursday morni stanley italia ng.The USGS reports that 240 small earthquakes occurred near Westmorland, California, between 4 p.m. local time Wednesday evening into 8 p.m. local time Thursday morning. Most of the quakes measure about magnitude 3.0, with the largest being a magnitude 4.9 quake.The seismic activity continued into Thursday morning, as dozens more small earthquakes occurred in what the USGS calls the Brawley seismic zone. Dr. Lucy Jones, a seismologist, founder chief scientist at her center, said it is one of the largest swarms ever seen in the Imperial Valley 鈥?and it is historically one of the most active swarms in Southern California. According to the USGS, the area also saw earthquake swarms in 1981 which included a magnitude 5.8 quake and in 2012 which included a magnitude 5.4 quake .The USGS reports that the earthquake swarm will continue to produce small earthquakes over the next seven days, and while there may be a few moderately-sized earthquakes up to magnitude 5.4, the system will eventually peter out.A second less likely scenario laid out by the USGS indicates that a large earthquake between magnitudes 5.5 and 6.9 is possible. A third 鈥?and least likely 鈥?scenario indicates that an enormous earthquake of magnitude 7.0+ could happen, which would cause serious impacts on nearby communities.Luckily, Jones said the earthquake swarm is too far away to have an impact o |
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