The House will consider legislation that would cut off funds for the National Security Agency's surveillance programs and imposes limits on the operations.
The head of the 1.5 million-member American Federation of Teachers says teachers who aren't up to snuff shouldn't be in classrooms and should find new professions.
America's top general says he would like to see a security agreement with Afghanistan signed by October, which would give NATO enough time to prepare for a post-2014 military presence.
Federal prosecutors in New Jersey say a New York City doctor who wrote illegal prescriptions for an oxycodone distribution ring has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
Survivors of mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut were among those gathered Friday in a suburban Denver park to honor those killed in the massacre at an Aurora movie theater a year after the attack.