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Voting rights activists say they're seeing a change in the debate this year — fewer new restrictions and, in some places, a hint of bipartisanship.

Regulators are warning some of the nation's largest banks to stop offering loans that are hard to distinguish from those given out by storefront payday lenders. The banks have been offering high-interest-rate, short-term loans to customers with direct deposit as an advance on their paychecks.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has conceded defeat in parliamentary elections in the former Soviet republic, clearing the way for the opposition Georgian Dream party to form a new government. The country's new ruling party says it will continue a pro-Western stance but also seek to restore ties with Russia.

NPR's Don Gonyea brings us an update from the Conservative Political Action Conference finishing up this weekend. A speech by Jeb Bush at the conference is raising questions about the direction of the conservative wing of the Republican party, and about possible contenders in the 2016 presidential election.

The House on Wednesday backed expanding a law that encourages the use of “direct primary care” agreements between patients and doctors.

First Lady Melania Trump also paid an unannounced visit to a detention center in Texas on Thursday.

Independent radio producer Scott Carrier concludes his story about a Utah woman who went searching for direction in life and found it in the most unlikely place: the bottom of the world. The woman recounts some of the strange things that happen on the scientific base where she worked during the six months of darkness that is the Antarctic winter.

After the idea received near-unanimous support from the House during a June special session, a Republican lawmaker this week renewed efforts to help...

A pigeon that set out on what was to be a 600 mile race in Japan, lost his way and ended up landing 5,000 miles across the Pacific in Canada. When it was found on Vancouver Island, the bird was exhausted and very skinny.

A Black man now chairs the Republican National Committee (RNC). Last Friday, Michael Steele was elected to the post in the sixth round of voting. And the former Lt. Gov. of Maryland, has already come out swinging against the Democrats. Steele talks about serving as the first African-American to lead the party of Lincoln, and his plans for the GOP.