Calls to free WSJ reporter from wrongful detention in Russia grow louder.

The Biden administration is expected to officially declare Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as wrongfully detained in Russia, triggering new US government resources to work towards his release. Gershkovich was detained last week and accused of spying, marking the first time an American journalist has been detained on such accusations by Moscow since the Cold War. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called for Gershkovich's "immediate release," and the State Department's office of hostage affairs will lead the US efforts to get him home. Some officials are concerned about a prisoner swap incentivizing the detainment of American journalists.