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0:00.0	Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.
0:05.0	Julian Assange has arrived in the Mariana Islands and is scheduled to appear in U.S. Federal
0:10.7	Court.
0:11.7	The WikiLeaks founders expected to plead guilty to a single
0:14.4	criminal count tied to his disclosure of U.S. national security secrets.
0:18.8	More from NPR's Ryan Lucas.
0:20.5	Julian Assange was indicted in 2019 on espionage and computer misuse charges
0:24.8	stemming from the publication of a huge trove of secret US government
0:28.4	documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Federal prosecutors
0:32.2	say it was one of the largest disclosures of classified information
0:35.2	in American history.
0:36.9	For the past five years, Assange has been in custody in the UK fighting extradition to the
0:41.4	U.S.
0:42.4	Now he has reached a deal with the Justice Department
0:45.0	to plead guilty to a single count of conspiring to obtain and disclose information
0:49.0	related to the national defense.
0:51.0	Assange is expected to enter his plea in federal court in Saipan and be sentenced to time
0:56.2	served.
0:57.2	He is then expected to return to his home country of Australia.
1:00.5	Ryan Lucas and PR News Washington.
1:02.4	The judge has modified a gag order in former President Donald Trump's New York
1:06.3	Hush Money case, though parts of the order will remain in place.
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