A beloved Pennsylvanian returns home from a Russian prison

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BUTLER, Pennsylvania — “He’s coming home, he’s coming home.”

Those were the words of Malphine Fogel, the mother of Marc Fogel, a western Pennsylvania teacher who was arrested in Russia in 2021 and sentenced to 14 years in a hard labor camp in 2022. He was imprisoned there until Tuesday, when President Donald Trump‘s administration secured his release.

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