
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a felony charge of violating the Espionage Act, a move that will allow him to go free after he spent five years in a British prison. Assange, 52, pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to obtain and distribute classified information after his organization obtained and published classified military and diplomatic documents in 2010, The Washington Post reported. The plea was entered Wednesday morning in U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands in Saipan, the...