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Behind the deal: Spies, a killer, secret messages and unseen diplomacy
A turning point came June 25, when a group of CIA officers sat across from their Russian counterparts during a secret meeting in a Middle Eastern capital.
The prisoners who were exchanged with Russia have returned to the USA
Paul Whelan, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Evan Gershkovich are now on American soil following the largest prisoner exchange between the West and Russia.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris welcomed them at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
Use of AI worries those who create covers for books
The first time Michael Whelan was warned that robots were coming for his job was in the 1980s. He had just finished painting the cover for a mass-market paperback edition of Stephen King's "The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger," a gritty portrait of the title character with the outline of a tower glimpsed through the haze behind him.