 With SRN News, I'm Rich Thomason. A Russian court has sentenced Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison for spying. Charges at Gershkovich, his employer, and the U.S. government dismiss as a politically motivated sham. An eventful week in the life of the nation and of a man, Donald Trump accepting the Republican Party's presidential nomination less than a week after narrowly escaping death at the hands of a would-be assassin.