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The San Francisco Bay Area is known for its love of fine food. It's also increasingly becoming known as an area where it's almost impossible to live on a service-industry wage.

One of Kathy Kraninger's first moves as CFPB chief was to move to rescind a rule that would put restrictions on payday lending. Now she'll face questions from the House Financial Services Committee.

The resolution was the product of tense internal deliberation among House Democrats, who were divided over how to confront a new round of allegations of anti-Semitism against Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.

Past administrations have had favored press members, says New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer, "but nothing where someone is so close in that they are coordinating on a daily basis with the president."

President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced in a Virginia court Thursday to 47 months in prison for his financial crimes. He faces another sentencing next week in D.C.

Nearly 13 percent of Philadelphia's population doesn't have a bank account — more than double the regional average. The city has just become the first big city in the U.S. to ban cashless businesses.

The U.S. Department of State has honored Sri Lanka's Marini de Livera for her innovative combination of drama and legal work to aid women and children.

Pentagon sources say that Trump's hopes for a space force produced tensions between Wilson and the White House, who saw her as delaying the process. She plans to go into academia.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade about why she was surprised by Paul Manafort's relatively light sentence and about federal sentencing guidelines.

President Trump and his allies in Congress are seeking a new wave of investigations that will target their opponents after embracing findings from the Justice Department they said vindicated Trump.