Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, testifies before a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on "Affordable Care Act Implementation on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The National Security Agency (NSA) denied the German media report over the weekend that President Barack Obama had been told the agency told him in 2010 that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was spied up and had allowed it to continue, news reports said.
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel wrote on Monday that some of the abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature are unconstitutional and will not take effect as scheduled, The Associated Press reported. Yeakel wrote that the regulations "violated the rights of abortion doctors to do what they think is best for their patients and would unreasonably restrict a woman's access to abortion clinics,"