{
  "id": 18140983,
  "title": "Prosecutors move to drop charges against scientist accused of smuggling frog embryos",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/prosecutors-move-to-drop-charges-against-scientist-accused-of",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-04T15:16:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hill",
    "slug": "the-hill",
    "url": "https://thehill.com/homenews/education/6197597-harvard-frog-embryo-smuggling-cbp/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Trump administration has moved to drop charges against a Harvard University researcher accused of illegally smuggling frog embryos into the United States. Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist, was detained and threatened with deportation after she did not declare the items when going through customs at the airport, an infraction her lawyers argued would normally be...",
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    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The New York Times",
        "title": "Prosecutors Seek to Drop Charges Against Russian Scientist Accused of Smuggling Frog Embryos",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/prosecutors-seek-to-drop-charges-against-russian-scientist-accused-of",
        "published": "2026-11-04T03:44:17.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Moscow Times",
        "title": "U.S. Will Drop Smuggling Charges Against Russian-Born Harvard Medical School Scientist",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/u-s-will-drop-smuggling-charges-against-russian-born-harvard-medical",
        "published": "2026-11-04T08:22:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}