WASHINGTON -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents, according to court papers filed late Monday. Assange is scheduled to appear in the federal court in the Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific, to plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate...

After spending five years in a high-security British prison, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has entered a plea deal with the U.S. government. Assange is expected plead guilty to a single count of conspiring to “unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified information relating to the national defense of the United States,” and will be sentenced in the Northern Mariana Islands on Wednesday, according to a letter filed by the Justice Department and obtained by The Washington Post. The letter notes that he will return to his native country of Australia after the...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty in US court to revealing military secrets in exchange for his freedom, ending his years-long legal drama, according to court documents released Monday night. Assange, who had been in custody in Britain, will plead guilty to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate national defense information, according to the document filed in court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in the Pacific. WikiLeaks reported early Tuesday morning British time that "Julian Assange is free" and had left...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in 2016. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents, according to court papers filed late Monday. Assange is scheduled to appear in the federal court in the Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific, to...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be released from prison as part of a plea deal with the United States, it was revealed on Monday. The award-winning journalist – who has spent the past five years in London’s notorious, maximum-security Belmarsh Prison – will plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act, according to court documents, and will not spend any time in prison in the US. Assange – an Australian citizen, who has never lived in the United States – will appear in court on the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S....

WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents, according to court papers filed late Monday. Assange is scheduled to appear in the federal court in the Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific, to plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate...

WASHINGTON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents, according to court papers filed late Monday. Assange is scheduled to appear in the federal court in the Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific, to plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and...