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...

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — A hearing expected to lead to the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has gotten underway at the U.S. district court in Saipan. Assange is set to plead guilty to a single felony charge related to the dissemination of U.S. military secrets. The deal will spare him prison time in the U.S., where he was charged with violating the Espionage Act. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has arrived...

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SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has arrived at a federal courthouse in Saipan ahead of an expected guilty plea in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will set him free to return home to Australia. The plane carrying the eccentric computer expert and internet publisher touched down more than two hours before the scheduled start of a plea hearing, in which he is set to admit to a felony for publishing U.S. military secrets under a deal that spares him prison time in...

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — A plane carrying Julian Assange has landed in Saipan ahead of the WikiLeaks founder’s expected guilty plea in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will set him free to return home to Australia. Assange will appear Wednesday in the U.S. federal court in the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific. Under the deal, which was disclosed in court papers on Monday, Assange will plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain...