A federal judge on Wednesday said she would grant bail to Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, in an immigration case stemming from Ms. Petrova’s failure to ...

NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge in Vermont ruled in favor of a Russian Harvard scientist who was detained by ICE and accused of smuggling goods into the U.S. on Wednesday.

Harvard researcher Kseniia Petrova is indicted on three federal charges for allegedly smuggling frog embryos into the U.S., potentially facing up to 20 years in prison for the violations.

A Harvard scientist who spent months in custody on a federal smuggling charge was released Thursday after a bail hearing in Boston. Russian citizen Kseniia Petrova was stopped in February at ...

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