Leaked | featured news

A Kentucky Democratic official said Thursday two men tied to an anti-Mitch McConnell super PAC took credit for secretly recording a meeting in which the GOP senator's aides discussed political attacks on Ashley Judd.

It's a data leak involving tens of thousands of offshore bank accounts, naming dozens of prominent figures around the world. And new details are being released by the day — raising the prospect that accounts based on promises of secrecy and tax shelter could someday offer neither.

Authorities and celebrities were grappling Monday with how to respond to a website that posted what appears to be private financial information about top government officials and stars such as Jay-Z and Mel Gibson....

Harvard said it had not notified most of the employees involved because it wanted to protect the one who inadvertently leaked confidential material to the news media.

The U.S. Army private accused of providing diplomatic cables and other secret documents to the WikiLeaks website pleaded guilty to misusing classified material on Thursday, but denied the most serious charge in the case, aiding the enemy.

A military judge on Thursday accepted the terms under which the young Army private charged in one of the largest leaks of classified material in U.S. history would plead guilty to lesser charges, a move that raises questions about whether the government will proceed with its most serious charges.

Private First Class Bradley Manning is due to take the stand in a military courtroom in his public address since his arrest in Iraq in 2010 on suspicion of stealing secret US military and diplomatic documents.

The U.S. Army soldier charged with sending reams of government secrets to WikiLeaks is offering to plead guilty to some less serious offenses. Pfc. Bradley Manning's civilian defense attorney, David Coombs, revealed the offer Wednesday during a pretrial hearing that continues Thursday.

A Vatican court on Saturday sentenced the pope’s former butler, Paolo Gabriele, to 18 months in prison for leaking confidential documents to a journalist in one of the most serious breaches of vaunted Vatican secrecy in modern history.

Hulk Hogan is reportedly in the process of sending a cease-and-desist letter to Gawker for posting video of the wrestler having sex with a woman rumored to be the wife of Hogan’s best friend, the radio personality dubbed Bubba the Love Sponge. Gawker says it received the footage through an anonymous source who did not seek payment. Hogan’s lawyer says if they don’t remove it, there will be a lawsuit. And I say, when a guy named Bubba the Love Sponge is even tangentially involved, isn’t this sort of thing inevitable?