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"I have to tell you, in my opinion Julian Assange is a hero. What he published was truthful information that the American public and the world had the right to see," Napolitano, a Fox News legal analyst, said on "Fox & Friends" Thursday about an hour after Assange was arrested.
The 47-year-old Australian native has been in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 when British courts ordered him extradited to face questioning in a sexual assault case. That matter has since been dropped, but Wikileaks, an anti-secrecy site, is facing a federal grand jury investigation over its publication of American diplomatic and military secrets during the Iraq War.
Moments before he was arrested, Ecuador announced it had withdrawn Assange's asylum for "repeatedly violating international conventions and protocol."
After Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday issued a challenge to other retailers, not naming which ones specifically, to match Amazon's pay and benefits, Walmart has responded, albeit quietly.
"Today I challenge our top retail competitors (you know who you are!) to match our employee benefits and our $15 minimum wage. Do it! Better yet, go to $16 and throw the gauntlet back at us. It's a kind of competition that will benefit everyone," Bezos wrote in his annual letter to shareholders.
Walmart's executive vice president of corporate affairs, Dan Bartlett, then shared an article Thursday morning on Twitter about Amazon paying $0 in federal taxes on more than $11 billion in profits last year. He wrote: "Hey retail competitors out there (you know who you are) how about paying your taxes?"

Pakistani security officials inspect the site of a deadly bomb blast at a fruit market in Quetta on April 12.
Police chief Abdur Razzaq Cheema told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal that explosives were packed in a car parked at a busy vegetable market.
Two children were among the dead and seven were rushed to hospital with injuries, he said.
The bombing appeared to target members of the Shi'ite ethnic Hazara community, Cheema added.
Provincial police chief Mohsin Butt said eight Hazara were among the victims.
Fox News' Tucker Carlson offered his own analysis regarding the arrest of Julian Assange. Mr. Assange was arrested yesterday, April 11, 2019, after the Ecuadoran Embassy agreed to evict him from their building in London where he lived over the last seven years, a refugee from the American and Western European governments.
This was extensively reported by the mainstream press, but it was done so dishonestly. Tucker Carlson puts the facts back into the equation with his presentation:

Dnigma Howard (center) leaves the Cook County Juvenile Center on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019 with her father Laurentio Howard (left) and attorney Andrew M. Stroth after a hearing where charges were dismissed against her in an incident last month at Marshall High School.
The video, obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, appears to contradict the officers' statements on how the incident unfolded, including that the student initiated the violent encounter - again raising questions of the oversight, training and stationing of police officers in Chicago Public Schools.
The two officers involved in the incident also held the student down while stepping on her chest, but they didn't seek help from her father or other school personnel who were nearby, according to an amended lawsuit filed Thursday by the girl's attorney, Andrew M. Stroth.
"The Board of Education and CPD continue to fail our children. An unarmed 16-year-old girl was beaten, kicked, punched and tasered by officers," Stroth said in a statement.
In his letter to the deputy prime minister of Russia, MP Vasily Vlasov stressed that due to their slow rate of decomposition, plastic bags are a "key issue" in regards to the pollution problem in the country and that it becomes "more acute every year."
According to Greenpeace, some 26 billion plastic bags are used in Russia each year.
And Vlasov considers "a complete ban on plastic bags an appropriate measure" to tackle the problem. "I'm convinced that this transitional period would be enough to prepare the economy for it," he stressed in a letter.
Later, as he sat in the dock at Westminster Magistrates Court, Assange silently read through the book, before he was found guilty of skipping bail in 2012 and remanded in custody.
Was Assange trying to send a message? Through a collection of interviews with Vidal, the book covers themes dear to Assange and WikiLeaks, tracing the historical events that gave rise to the military-industrial-security complex, as well as the expansion of executive powers that led to what the author calls "the imperial presidency."
On the 10th anniversary of the Westminster expenses scandal that shocked Britain, the Mirror can reveal 160 politicians raked in more than £42million in profits selling properties public money helped fund.
Among them are Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who made £870,000 on two homes, ex-Cabinet minister Maria Miller, who collected more than £1.2million, Tory Graham Brady and Labour 's Hugh Bayley.
From the first episode - in which he interviewed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah - to the last, where his guest was Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, Assange raised questions for which WikiLeaks became both famous and notorious in the West.













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