Prosecutors move to drop charges against scientist accused of smuggling frog embryos
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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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