Deborah Norville

Hoping to put an end to a debate he really did not need in a re-election year, President Obama reverses course on a mandate that would have required religious institutions to cover the cost of contraception for employees. NBC’s Kristen Welker reports.

Julie Scardina, animal ambassador for Sea World and Busch Gardens, stops by the TODAY set with three exotic animals – an echina, a rock hyrax and a hornbill.

TODAY’s Lester Holt sits down with Mimi Alford to discuss her 18-month affair with John F. Kennedy when he was president and she was a 19-year-old White House intern.

Accused child molester Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach charged with abusing boys in his charge, tells a Pennsylvania judge that the terms of his house arrest are overly restrictive and unnecessary. Michael Isikoff reports.