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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange finds himself more legal trouble today as federal prosecutors have charged him with 17 new counts. Among them is an espionage charge for publishing classified information — the first such indictment ever handed down against a non-government employee by the U.S. Justice Department. The…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been jailed for nearly a year by a British court for breaching bail. Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching the bail act following his arrest last month at the Ecuadorian embassy. During his court appearance, he said that he was "struggling with difficult…

UPDATED with Roger Stone presser:  “As I have always said, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about,” Roger Stone said outside federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida following his arrest in a pre-dawn FBI raid on his house. “After a two year inquisition, the charges today relate in no…

One day after President Donald Trump’s pal Roger Stone crowed he would have to lie to “bear false witness against” POTUS, Stone instead invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself as he turned down a request to turn over documents and testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee’s top…

Undaunted by the Donald Trump campaign’s legal move to shut her up, Omarosa Manigault Newman took to MSNBC this afternoon to claim he knew about Hillary Clinton's stolen emails prior to their release by Wikileaks during the campaign. “Did Donald Trump know about those emails before they came out?” Katy Tur asked…

We’ve reached the “I am not a racist” stage of Roseanne Barr’s grief over losing her big come-back break over yet another tweet comparing a black female member of the Obama administration to an ape, this time Valerie Jarrett. Of course, that claim lost about 30% of its impact when she also retweeted what purports to…

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has at least four dozen questions he wants to ask President Donald Trump about his ties to Russia and other matters, The New York Times reports. The newspaper got a list of the unsurprising questions from a source.  The open-ended queries appear to be an attempt to penetrate Trump’s…

UPDATED with Fox News statement: Allegations that slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was involved in a conspiracy with Wikileaks to create a massive data dump have landed Fox News Channel, an investigative reporter and a Fox guest in legal hot water. Joel and Mary Rich claim that Fox News…

Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower who was convicted of leaking classified information, talked about re-entering civilian life after spending seven years in federal prison. In the year since President Obama commuted her 35-year sentence for stealing classified U.S. military files…

Stephen Colbert frolicked through this week’s news of secret correspondence between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks during the presidential race. The Trump campaign had insisted it had absolutely no contact with the outfit. But, in October 2016, WikiLeaks wrote to the candidate’s son, “Hey Donald, great to see you and…

UPDATED with USAA reinstating ads: USAA financial services firm told the Associated Press on Tuesday it has reinstating its advertising on Sean Hannity's Fox News Channel program after members of the military and veterans criticized its decision to pull the ads. The San Antonio, Texas-based company said also had…

The day after Wikileaks released thousands of pages of what purports to be CIA documents describing software tools for tapping into smartphones, smart TVs and computers, ABC News' Cecilia Vega asked White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer: "Trump said, ‘I love Wikileaks!’ during the campaign. Doe he still feel that…