This article about the release of Britney Griner. Griner was locked up in Russia for the last 10 months due to her breaking some weed laws in Russia. In order for her release to be granted, President Biden had to send Russia back one of their notorious Russian arms dealers Viktor Bout.

This is a very controversial release, because of the opportunity to bring home Marine Paul Whelan, who has been stuck in Russia for the last four years.

This article is news because it talks about something very major happening within our country. Especially with a country that we are currently in a war in.

I do think the article is too long, we do not need to know the whole background of Britney Griner. but I understand because this target audience is a little different than their other articles. Most of their audience is for just sports fans, but there will be many people looking at this article that are just interested in politics. So they had to give background for the person.