Holder faces big decision on DOJ charges against Zimmerman  —  Attorney General Eric Holder faces a crucial decision on whether to press federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman, after the neighborhood watchman was acquitted Saturday in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.

Whodunnit?  JK Rowling's secret life as wizard crime writer revealed  —  JK Rowling says she found writing a crime novel under a male pseudonym to be a ‘liberating experience’ (Mike Marsland)  —  JK ROWLING has secured another literary coup by writing an acclaimed detective novel in the guise of a first-time author.

Israel Airstrike Targeted Advanced Missiles That Russia Sold to Syria, U.S. Says  —  WASHINGTON — Israel carried out an air attack in Syria this month that targeted advanced antiship cruise missiles sold to the Syria government by Russia, American officials said Saturday.

Zimmerman Verdict Reached: NOT GUILTY  —  A verdict has been returned in Florida v. Zimmerman:  —  NOT GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS  —  The State prosecutors, including the until recently rarely-seen Angela Corey, are currently providing interviews to the press, essentially re-arguing their catastrophically failed courtroom arguments.

Remark by Obama Complicates Military Sexual Assault Trials  —  WASHINGTON — When President Obama proclaimed that those who commit sexual assault in the military should be “prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court-martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged,” it had an effect he did not intend …

The Justice Dept. and a free press  —  New guidelines are a historic step toward restraining the reach of government in its dealings with the news media.  —  Atty. Gen. Eric Holder unveiled new guidelines to govern the Justice Department's behavior in cases involving news organizations.

Edward Snowden, come on home  —  Espionage.  International intrigue.  Secret government surveillance.  Bad airport food.  The Edward Snowden saga continued on Friday, when the leaker-who revealed information about the NSA's surveillance of phone and internet records-spoke out from the Moscow airport …

Remember The Debt Ceiling?  —  As Erskine Bowles notes “Everyone claims that they're not going to let our nation default.  And Lord knows we all ought to pray that they don't.  But, could it happen?  You bet.”  But it seems the world has forgotten that between the “grand bargain' negotiations …

Russian Officials Say They Didn't Receive an Asylum Request From Snowden  —  MOSCOW — Senior Kremlin officials said Saturday that Russia's Federal Migration Service had not yet received a formal appeal for asylum from Edward J. Snowden.  And the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov …