Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova charged with smuggling as she fights deportation

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist and researcher at Harvard University, was charged on Wednesday with one criminal count of smuggling goods into the country.The criminal charge represents an escalation by the Trump administration in a case that has drawn international scrutiny from academics and scientists throughout the world.Petrova, 30, was already facing deportation after failing to disclose frog embryos she brought into the country from France in February. After Customs and Border P