Good morning.
After years of legal battles, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been released from prison. WikiLeaks posted a video of Assange boarding a flight that departed the UK from London’s Stansted airport, which was followed by news that he was expected to plead guilty to violating one criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose national defence information. Assange is due to be sentenced on Wednesday on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands at 9am local time, where he is expected to be credited for the five years he has already spent in jail and will therefore face no new jail time. Under the deal he will return to his native Australia.
