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Federal officials say Rhode Island Hospital has agreed to pay $5.3 million to settle claims that doctors billed Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary overnight hospital stays.

Conservatives said Sunday the flap surrounding President Barack Obama's birth control mandate was far from over, with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell saying he'll push to overturn the requirement because it was another example of government meddling.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration and its Wage and Hour Division have announced the final rule to better the H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker program.

President Barack Obama on Monday sent Congress a new budget that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade while at the same time showering billions of dollars of increased spending on areas aimed at giving the economy a quick boost.

Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Friday it is challenging Bayer's patent on the birth control pill Beyaz.

An Illinois man has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for shipping unwanted penis enlargers to diabetes patients in a scheme to bilk Medicare of more than $2.2 million.