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The U.S. Treasury Department announced Friday that it has put Agrosoyuz Commercial Bank on a blacklist, after it engaged in transactions that supported North Korea's arms program.

The nation's No. 1 and No. 2 cable companies would come together if Comcast's plan to buy Time Warner for $45 billion goes through. Before that can happen, though, federal lawyers are expected to consider the effect of such a combination on consumers.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with ProPublica reporter, Alec MacGillis, about what is going on at the Department of Housing and Urban Development after news that the agency approved the purchase of a dining set that cost $31,000 in taxpayer money. He says the morale levels among employees at HUD are at an all-time low.

The Government Accountability Office says 3 million more Americans are likely to have experienced underwithholding from their paychecks in 2018 as a direct result of the new tax law.

Aides say the Senate will hear evidence "nobody has seen before" related to incitement of the Jan. 6 insurrection. The former president's defense, however, argues the trial should not happen at all.

To control inflation during WWII, the U.S. government resorted to wide-ranging price controls. Their unintended consequences might explain why today's policymakers are reluctant to try it again.

Kash Patel, President Trump's pick to run the FBI, answered questions Thursday in a public hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The troops will help get Americans, and Afghans who helped them, out of the country. NPR's A Martínez talks to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby about what's going on following the Taliban's takeover.

On Wednesday, the Senate majority leader threw cold water on some of Trump's plans.

The purchase "is the latest reprehensible choice from a company that has profited from addicting users to its deadly products," the American Lung Association said.