LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing that the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 U.S. ...

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The absence of a proverbial smoking gun of criminality in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative report on contact between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russian governmental operatives – and on any possible cover-up by Trump — does not mean the ...

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LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forcibly bundled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and into a waiting British police van on Thursday, setting up a potential court battle over attempts to extradite him to the U.S. to ...

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An apparent criminal complaint against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is the subject of a federal court hearing in Virginia.

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FORT MEADE — A one-time computer hacker who told authorities Pfc. Bradley Manning was giving information to WikiLeaks testified Tuesday the soldier never said he wanted to help the enemy during their online chats. Manning is on trial for giving ...

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HAGERSTOWN — The WikiLeaks organization and a handful of journalists asked a federal judge Wednesday to order greater transparency in the court-martial of an Army private who has acknowledged sending reams of classified document to the WikiLeaks website. The Center ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military’s highest court is hearing arguments on whether the public should have access to written records in the court-martial of an Army private charged with giving reams of classified information to the secret-sharing website WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks ...

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FORT MEADE — Lawyers for an Army private accused of leaking classified information are asking the government to turn over all emails related to his pretrial detention at a military brig in Quantico, Va. Lawyers for Pfc. Bradley Manning say ...

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LONDON — Ecuador on Thursday granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a decision that thrilled supporters but did not defuse the standoff at the Latin American nation’s London embassy, where he has been holed up for almost two ...

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FORT MEADE — The U.S. State Department took extraordinary steps to limit harm to foreign relations and individuals after an Army private allegedly sent more than 250,000 classified diplomatic cables to the secret-sharing website WikiLeaks, two agency officials testified at ...

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