NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants  —  National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls.  That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too.

Palin slams military intervention in Syria: ‘Let Allah sort it out’  —  Former GOP vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin told a Washington audience Saturday that the U.S. should not get involved in the Syrian civil war.  —  Palin argued that the U.S. should not intervene …

Kraft: Putin stole Bowl ring  —  New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft revealed the real story behind a 2005 meeting with Vladimir Putin, during which the Russian president pocketed his Super Bowl ring, worth more than $25,000.  Kraft, at the time, claimed the diamond-encrusted bauble was a gift …

Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria  —  World Exclusive: US urges Britain and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing Sunni-Shia conflict  —  Washington's decision to arm Syria's Sunni Muslim rebels …

For Snowden, a Life of Ambition, Despite the Drifting  —  WASHINGTON — In 2006, when Edward J. Snowden joined the thousands of computer virtuosos going to work for America's spy agencies, there were no recent examples of insiders going public as dissidents.

Fears of National ID With Immigration Bill  —  WASHINGTON — Driver's license photographs and biographic information of most Americans would be accessible through an expanded Department of Homeland Security nationwide computer network if the immigration legislation pending before the Senate becomes law.

U.S. spy agency paper says fewer than 300 phone numbers closely scrutinized  —  (Reuters) - The U.S. government only searched for detailed information on calls involving fewer than 300 specific phone numbers among the millions of raw phone records collected by the National Security Agency in 2012 …

Eric Holder has been an excellent attorney general  —  We were disappointed to read David Ignatius's June 9 op-ed column, “A mediocre attorney general,” purporting to represent the views of a number of unnamed Washington lawyers about Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s tenure.

GOP to constituents: Questions on ObamaCare?  Call Obama.  —  Republican lawmakers say they anticipate a flood of questions in the coming months from constituents on the implementation of ObamaCare, which will pose a dilemma for the GOP.  [WATCH VIDEO]  —  People regularly call …

Threats made to figures at center of IRS controversy: sources  —  (Reuters) - A current and a former top tax official have been physically threatened in recent weeks as the scandal over Internal Revenue Service targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups has gathered steam, people familiar with their situation say.

Rohani Leads in Early Iran Results  —  BEIRUT—Iran's preliminary election results show that the candidate backed by the opposition and reformist political factions, Hassan Rohani, is leading in polls by a landslide, giving a decisive victory to Iranians calling for change.