“We are doing this to call attention to Evan’s case and to give people a symbolic way to show support for Evan as he passes 100 days in jail and awaits trial,.
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both the journal as well as united states officials have denied the accusation. the journal says u.s. embassy officials were able to attend yesterday s hearing as well as gerschkovich s parents, but it s not known if anyone was able to speak with him. his pretrial detention is now set to run until the end of august. it comes after moscow upheld his detention last month after an appeal and after multiple u.s. embassy requests for consular access were denied earlier this month. gerschkovich could face-up to 20 years in prison if convict. president biden has called for his immediate release. and as memorial day weekend approaches, 10 millionaire travelers are expected to pass through tsa check points, and the nation s airlines are promising there won t be a repeat of last summer s travel chaos. nbc news correspondent tom costello has more. reporter: count down to the
a bipartisan group of female senators dubbed the sister senators filibustered to try and stop the vote. they had been successful in stopping previous abortion legislation, but they could not stop a vote this time. south carolina had become a destination for women in the south looking to have the procedure as neighboring states have already enacted bans. elsewhere a russian court has extended the pretrial detention of imprisoned american journalist evan gerschkovich by three months. in response his employer, the wall street journal, released a statement yesterday confirming that the reporter had appeared in a moscow court while calling the charges against him demons strbably false.