U.S. officials met with Brittney Griner, who is doing as well as can be expected,' the White House says.

U.S. officials met with the jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner on Thursday for the first time since a Russian court rejected her appeal on a drug-possession conviction, and the White House said she was doing as well as can be expected.Ms. Griner has become unwillingly ensnared in a geopolitical battle between Russia and the west, and has been grappling with the decision by a Russian appeals court to uphold a nine-year sentence in a penal colony on charges of drug possession.

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