WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted for 18 total espionage-related offenses. The first charge, handed down in April, is for allegedly conspiring with the Army private then known as Bradley Manning to hack classified computer systems. The other 17 were revealed today, and include violations of the Espionage Act. Assange is currently in the United Kingdom fighting extradition to the United States.
Read more at USA Today, CNBC, ABC News, the other ABC News and The Daily Caller.
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In other stories:
From National Review, the collusion ship is sinking.
From FrontpageMag, the left gives us "fact-free politics".
From NBC News, a judge orders the records in the Jussie Smollett case to be revealed. (via Townhall)
From The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative group creates a project against those who go after gun companies.
From the Washington Examiner, another man charged with espionage offenses weighs in on Assange.
From The Federalist, why the U.S. and the E.U. are on a collision course.
From American Thinker, "make Australia great again".
From CBC News, a Spanish man is arrested after swimming from Canada to the U.S. across the Niagara River. (Hint: Unless you're from a country for which the U.S. and/or Canada requires a visa, the passport that will get you into one country will also get you into the other. Just go to a legal port of entry. No illegal swimming is necessary.)
From the Express, an activist who spoke out against brutal attack on white South African is herself killed in a brutal attack.
From the Evening Standard, an 81-year-old Brexit supporter gets milkshaked.
From the Independent, a policeman in Lancaster, England deals with a very unembraceable ewe.
From the Irish Examiner, Ireland's Taoiseach hosts the King of Sweden.
From RFI, Paris prepares for more action by young climate change protesters. (Have any of these youngsters located the Chinese embassy yet?)
From El País, Spain's Socialist Party and Podemos are moving toward forming a coalition government.
From The Portugal News, Portugal will keep its sardine fishing ban until June 3.
From Morocco World News, female bus drivers in Rabat will not result in female-only buses.
From ANSA, according to Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi, immigration should be the E.U.'s top priority.
From Total Croatia News, celebrate history in Zadar, Croatia.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, the main form of organized crime in the Balkans is cigarette smuggling.
From the Greek Reporter, American tourists are spending more money in Greece again.
From Novinite, construction on the "Europe" motorway between Niš, Serbia and Sofia, Bulgaria has begun.
From Romania-Insider, a Romanian energy distributor builds an underground power line "in record time" for a visit by the pope.
From Russia Today, a follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is allowed to wear a colander on his head for his driver's licence photo.
From Sputnik International, the Kremlin will not get involved in the dispute over a new church in Yekaterinburg.
From The Moscow Times, Russia has removed two million tons of contaminated oil from its pipelines.
From Daily News Hungary, the number of foreign workers in Hungary has greatly increased.
From Hungary Today, the Hungarian opposition party LMP accuses the governing Fidesz party of denying climate change.
From The Slovak Spectator, 11,000 bee colonies have died in southern Slovakia.
From Radio Poland, Warsaw and Washington are reportedly close to a deal to put more U.S. troops in Poland.
From Deutsche Welle, two German politicians call for a "European Islam".
From the CPH Post, the Danish government wants women in the country's special forces.
From the NL Times, mayors, policemen and businesses ask the Dutch government to ban fireworks.
From VRT NWS, a Belgian bank takes its ATMs out of service to prevent attacks.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish universities still have "tremendous" gender inequity.
From Rûdaw, the U.S. grants Iraq another waver of the sanctions on Iran, for energy importation.
From Arutz Sheva, towns in central Israel are evacuated as fires spread.
From The Times Of Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu asks for international help with the fires.
From The Jerusalem Post, more incendiary balloons are launched from Gaza. (Were any of the fires in the above two articles caused by these balloons?)
From Egypt Today, 324 convicts in Egyptian prison receive presidential pardons. (When it comes to pardons, I don't think Trump has anything on Al-Sisi.)
From Radio Farda, Iran's president promises to not surrender to U.S. pressure, even if bombed.
From IranWire, Iran considers offering citizenship to children of non-Iranian fathers and Iranian mothers.
From Dawn, Pakistan successfully fires a Shaheen-II ballistic missile.
From The Express Tribune, a "spiritual healer" is arrested for allegedly throwing acid on her maid.
From Pakistan Today, 315 Pakistanis in Malaysian prisons are expected home on May 29th.
From Khaama Press, the 800-year-old Minaret of Jam is in danger of being destroyed by floods.
From the Hindustan Times, after winning bigly, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promises to "take everyone with us".
From the Daily Mirror, refugees in Sri Lanka plead to have their cases expedited.
From the Colombo Page, there is no agreement to establish a U.S. base in Sri Lanka.
From the Business Standard, Malaysian officials go undercover to make sure that Muslims fast.
From Gatestone Institute, Iran is still reportedly planning to kidnap and kill Americans.
From CNS News, the number of border apprehensions and inadmissibles reach the highest monthly numbers in a decade. (Yes, Virginia, I mean, Nancy, there is a border crisis.)
From the New York Post, how mental health treatment on Rikers Island improved as a result of Hurricane Sandy.
And from Twitchy, congresscritter Ted Lieu (D-Cal) wants it made clear that they're not saying impeachment. (I'm reminded of the TV host who allegedly used to say something like "I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens.")
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