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Rising country singer performs "My First Rodeo," "I Got Time," and "If You Say So" for CBS Saturday Morning Rising country singer Brittney Spencer showcased songs from her 2023 debut album My Stupid Life on CBS Saturday Morning’s latest Saturday Sessions. For the performance, the Baltimore-born singer delivered “My First Rodeo,” “I Got Time,” and “If You Say So” from her must-hear LP released earlier this month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA1jpu7eflE “Spencer traverses a blend of…

The rising Nashville star's debut album 'My Stupid Life' is one of the most convincing country statements in a while Like most singers new in town, Brittney Spencer spent the bulk of her first decade in Nashville paying dues. She busked to passersby, sang backup for Carrie Underwood, and carved out a space for provocative songwriting in the city’s Christian-worship-music community. Then, in 2020, in the wake of country music’s reckoning with its long history of racial exclusion, Spencer uploaded…

"I am grateful to be in a place now to share my story with the world," WNBA star says of projects Brittney Griner’s imprisonment in Russia and subsequent release will be the focus of both an upcoming documentary and scripted television series. The WNBA star has partnered with Disney’s ESPN and ABC Signature on the projects, with the former producing the documentary and the latter planning the scripted series. Griner — who, like other WNBA athletes, played basketball in Russia during the…

A visiting player received the loudest applause at Crypto.com Arena on Friday. Even Sparks players joined.After missing last season while being wrongfully detained in Russia, Brittney Griner made her much-anticipated return to the WNBA. The Sparks welcomed the Phoenix center back with a pregame video montage featuring the tagline “basketball is home.”As fans showered her with extended applause, Griner, seated on the bench before starting lineup announcements, raised her hands and tapped her chest in appreciation. Then…

Brittney Griner made a special appearance at the 2023 NAACP Image Awards on Sunday, just over a year after her initial detainment in Russia. “As we gather here tonight in the spirit of overcoming adversity, I want to take a moment to recognize someone who has done just that,” host Queen Latifah said as she introduced the professional basketball player. “Back home, back here with us tonight where she belongs, our sis, Brittany Griner.” Griner was arrested in Russia in February 2022 when customs…

An American who has been wrongfully detained for 10 months in brutal Russian prisons is coming home.Why are so many other Americans so angry about it?An American who was given an outrageous nine-year sentence for attempting to enter Russia with minuscule amounts of hashish oil in vape cartridges is coming home.Why do so many other Americans wish she wasn’t?The freeing of women’s basketball star Brittney Griner from her Russian incarceration Thursday in a prisoner swap for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout should have…

WASHINGTON —  Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, U.S.officials said. The swap, at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine, achieved a top goal for President Biden, but carried a heavy price — and left behind another American who has been jailed for nearly four years in Russia.The deal, the second such exchange in eight months with Russia, procured the release of the most prominent American…

The inmates at IK-2 penal colony rise at 6 a.m. each day for a breakfast of milk porridge, bread and tea. Soon they leave their barracks at this aging facility about 300 miles southeast of Moscow, in the isolated republic of Mordovia.Long days are spent in forced labor, working at sewing machines, with only a short break for lunch. By nightfall, prisoners are fed dinner and allowed an hour or less of free time before going to sleep in dormitories crowded with scores of bunk beds. The routine reportedly can stretch for…

US' Women's National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, stands inside a defendants' cage before a court hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, on August 4, 2022. Evgenia Novozhenina | AFP | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — A Russian court will hear WNBA star Brittney Griner's appeal on Tuesday after the American athlete was convicted on drug charges earlier this year.Griner's lawyers told NBC News…

U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted Thursday in Russia of drug possession and smuggling and was sentenced to nine years behind bars in a politically charged case that could lead to a high-stakes prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow. The 31-year-old Griner, a two-time U.S. Olympic champion and a eight-time all-star with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, listened with a blank expression as an interpreter translated the verdict by Judge Anna Sotnikova, but her lawyers said later she was…