Brittney Griner: 'It's the most audacious hostage taking by a state imaginable,' says former captive
CNN
When Jonathan Franks first heard that the American basketball star Brittney Griner had been detained in Russia, his initial sense was one of disbelief.
But it wasn't any kind of incredulity that she'd been arrested accused of possession of some cannabis oil at an airport near Moscow, more that any western media would relay the details of her alleged crime as if it was fact.
"This is being reported as if people are taking these allegations seriously," he told CNN. "I think that it's a huge mistake to report these allegations as if they're true or even are likely to be true."
Crews in Atlanta completed repairs Wednesday morning to a key water main whose break, among others, contributed to a huge swath of the city spending days without safe drinking water – though a boil advisory remains in effect for many homes and businesses “out of an abundance of caution,” the city said.