WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with U.S. and be freed from prison

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...