Republican and House Speaker John Boehner said in a press conference on Tuesday that the swap made for the release of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was a violation on the US government's stance on negotiating with terrorists and that the move has endangered Americans.
The New York Times said that the city of New York had reached a settlement with the plaintiffs of a lawsuit over the false arrests made by some state police officers.
Judge Rolf Treu ruled that the current state laws on teacher job security in California are unconstitutional as it is biased to teachers who perform poorly in the classroom, The Los Angeles Times said.
A report by investigator Anton Valukas commissioned by automaker General Motors Co indicated that lawyers had earlier on warned the company of paying potential punitive damages if accident victims decided to go to trial over the ignition defects in their cars.
