Top of the Hour: Bradley Manning to Appear in Court, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of  channeling hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to WikiLeaks, will make his first court appearance in Fort Meade, Maryland on Friday. Manning faces a maximum possible sentence of life in prison without parole.

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