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FILE- In this June 26, 2018 file photo, Reality Winner walks into the Federal Courthouse in Augusta, Ga. Winner, 29, a former government contractor who was given the longest federal prison sentence imposed for leaks to the news media, has been released from prison to home confinement, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP, File)
Reality Winner, NSA contractor in leak case, out of prison

By Michael Balsamo Jun. 14, 2021 02:24 PM EDT

Roberto De Vita the lawyer of Italian Navy Captain Walter Biot talks with Associated Press in front of Regina Coeli prison in Rome, Friday, April 2, 2021. The Italian Navy captain accused of passing classified documents to Russia is defending himself by saying he didn’t have access to any information that would have compromised the security or strategic operations of Italy or NATO, his lawyer said Friday. (AP Photo/Paolo Lucariello)
Italy: Officer held for spying says he had no sensitive info

By Nicole Winfield And Gordon Walker Apr. 02, 2021 12:54 PM EDT

FILE - In this Saturday, April 12, 2003, file photo, talk radio host G. Gordon Liddy speaks at a rally for troops in Washington. In Washington, 10 blocks from an anti-war demonstration, supporters of the war effort drew thousands to their own rally. Liddy, a mastermind of the Watergate burglary and a radio talk show host after emerging from prison, has died at age 90. His son, Thomas Liddy, confirmed the death Tuesday, March 30, 2021, but did not reveal the cause. (AP Photo/Lisa Nipp, File)
G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate mastermind, dead at 90

By Will Lester Mar. 31, 2021 12:07 AM EDT

FILE - This Jan. 16, 2001, file photo shows G. Gordon Liddy, a Watergate conspirator, arriving at Baltimore's federal courthouse. Liddy, a mastermind of the Watergate burglary and a radio talk show host after emerging from prison, has died at age 90. His son, Thomas Liddy, confirmed the death Tuesday, March 30, 2021, but did not reveal the cause. (AP Photo/Roberto Borea, File)
G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate mastermind, dead at 90

By Will Lester Mar. 30, 2021 08:41 PM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 4, 2020, courtroom sketch, Joshua Schulte, center, is seated at the defense table flanked by his attorneys during jury deliberations in New York. A judge says Schulte, a former CIA employee, cannot get espionage charges against him dismissed on the grounds that there weren't enough Hispanic or Black individuals on the grand jury that indicted him. (Elizabeth Williams via AP, File)
Judge rejects ex-CIA worker's try to dismiss hacking charges

By Larry Neumeister Mar. 24, 2021 06:18 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2019, file photo, The White House viewed from the Washington Monument in Washington. President-elect Joe Biden soon will be entering a no-Zoom zone at the White House. It's just one sign of the challenges his new administration will face when it moves to Washington in the midst of a pandemic. After months of making a virtue of being cautious about COVID-19, Biden’s prudence will be tested by technology and tradition when his new administration arrives on Jan. 20. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Biden's challenge: Creating a COVID-19-free White House

By Zeke Miller And Aamer Madhani Dec. 16, 2020 12:29 AM EST

Kristinn Hrafnsson editor in chief of Wikileaks gives a statement outside the Old Bailey in London, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, as the Julian Assange extradition hearing to the US ended, with a result expected later in the year. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
WikiLeaks' Assange won't get US extradition ruling this year

By Pan Pylas Oct. 01, 2020 01:52 PM EDT

Editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, Kristinn Hrafnsson, right, shows his phone to Julian Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson, center, as Assange's partner Stella Moris looks on outside the Central Criminal Court Old Bailey in London, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the U.S. government were squaring off in a London court on Monday at a high-stakes extradition case delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. American prosecutors have indicted the 49-year-old Australian on 18 espionage and computer misuse charges over Wikileaks' publication of secret U.S. military documents a decade ago. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Assange told to stop interrupting witnesses at UK hearing

Sep. 08, 2020 08:16 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: New York

By The Associated Press Sep. 02, 2020 05:45 PM EDT
Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New York’s newspapers: American Intelligence Knows What Russia Is Doing ...

Judge orders ex-CIA officer detained in China spy case

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher Aug. 27, 2020 05:16 PM EDT
HONOLULU (AP) — A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI accused of selling U.S. secrets to China must remain locked up because he's a “serious...

President Donald Trump arrives to speak about the PREVENTS "President's Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End a National Tragedy of Suicide," task force, in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Bolton says Trump asked China to help him get reelected

By Zeke Miller, Deb Riechmann And Jill Colvin Jun. 17, 2020 05:52 PM EDT