 It's the Global News Roundup with Emily Tamkin, a global affairs reporter and contributing columnist at The Forward, Alex Ward, a national security reporter for Politico, and James Kipfield, senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency in Congress. Let's go now to the Northern Mariana Islands, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accepted a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday. It ended his 14-year legal battle with the U.S. over the release of classified military documents.