Today on WML: Pam Falk of CBS News joins the show to discuss the latest on the Assange case. Bill Steffen joins the show to update us on the inconsistent weather and what to expect over the weekend. Kevin DeVries of Grace Explorations and Basec Camp brings along Andy Menichino to tell his story of abandonment, betrayal, addiction, fraud, and ultimate redemption.
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1 Weather
A soggy morning will give way to a blustery and dry afternoon. Sunshine returns, with a brisk southwesterly wind. High 55
2 Assange
For the first time in seven years, Julian Assange woke up somewhere other than the Ecuadorian Embassy. The WikiLeaks founder is in jail after his dramatic arrest yesterday. The US Justice Department indicted him on a charge of conspiring to steal military secrets with Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who supplied thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. Assange denies wrongdoing and will fight extradition to the US, meaning a long and tortured legal battle awaits. Most US politicians celebrated the news of his arrest.
3 MSU
A Michigan State University student who sued the school after alleging three former men's basketball players gang-raped her in 2015 said at a news conference Thursday that she wants to encourage other "silent survivors" of sexual assault to tell their stories. Bailey Kowalski, 22, who will graduate in May with a biology degree, held the news conference on the fourth anniversary of the alleged incident. She spoke a day after going public for the first time in a story published by The New York Times.
Notables
-The Minnesota Twins have postponed their series opener against the Detroit Tigers because of wintry weather, opting for a doubleheader next month.
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