What we know about a deal the U.S. offered to Russia for release of WNBA star Brittney Griner

For months, both Brittney Griner and the U.S. State Department have been carefully measured in everything they said about her detainment in Russia on drug charges. And then came Wednesday.

First, Griner testified in court, telling the judge that when she was arrested Feb. 17 she was denied proper translation, wasn’t read her rights, was denied access to a lawyer and was coerced by her interpreter into signing papers she couldn’t understand….