 and from listeners like you who donate to this NPR station. It's the Global News Roundup with Emily Tampkin, 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,