President Donald Trump met with Marc Fogel’s mother on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, and vowed to bring her son home if elected, just before an assassination attempt nearly took his life.

Fogel returned to Washington, DC, on Wednesday – in front of a mural of Americans detained abroad – to join with the families of others still imprisoned to call for their release.

Malphine Fogel, met with Trump before a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Trump was shot. She asked Trump to not forget her son’s name. He told the 95-year-old mother he would bring ...

Marc Fogel in an undated photo in Ireland. courtesy of Anne Fogel. Anne Fogel, 60, said her brother, who remains held at a penal colony in Rybinsk, 200 miles north of Moscow, slipped on ice last ...

An American school teacher held in Russia for over three years has been released, the White House said Tuesday. Marc Fogel, who was arrested for having medical marijuana in 2021, is expected to be ...

Fogel's mother, 95-year-old Malphine Fogel, has continued to advocate for her son's release. "I might be on borrowed time," Malphine Fogel told KDKA-TV last July . "I don't know how much time I have.

The White House announced Tuesday the Trump administration had secured the release of American prisoner Marc Fogel from Russia as part of an “exchange,” in what the U.S. government said was a ...

Marc Fogel, an American teacher serving a 14-year prison sentence in Russia, has been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained, the State Department said on Friday.