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Daft Punk's album <em>Random Access Memories</em> sold 339,000 copies in its first week in stores, the second highest total for any new album in 2013.

What It Means When 'Hip' Albums Top The Charts

Last week, Vampire Weekend had the best selling album in the country. This week Daft Punk will take that spot. Are these the hippest albums to ever top the Billboard album chart in two back-to-back weeks?

Turkish Cleric Tops List Of Intellectuals

When the votes came in for Prospect magazine's list of the top 100 public intellectuals, at No. 1 was Turkish Sufi cleric Fethullah Gulen. Prospect Magazine editor Tom Nuttall says Gulen's global network of supporters propelled him to the top spot.

Sabrina Carpenter releases new music: 'Short n’ Sweet' -- her 6th album

Singer Sabrina Carpenter is having a huge year: Two of her singles have hit the Top 10 this summer -- including the inescapable “Espresso.”

Also: President Trump apparently wrote the letter on his health released by his doctor; hundreds of protesters are arrested in Paris in May Day rallies; and NASA prepares to send a new probe to Mars.

The undated portrait photo shows Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, chief of staff for Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Bin Mubarak was kidnapped on Saturday in Sanaa.

Gunmen Kidnap Top Official In Yemen

President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi's chief of staff was kidnapped from his car in the heart of the capital Sanaa. Security officials blame Houthi rebels.

Cher's Christmas album tops the charts

Cher recently spoke with NPR's Scott Simon about her first holiday music album. "DJ Play a Christmas Song" has since hit Number 1 on two Billboard charts.

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk up the stairs as they arrive at the North Portico of the White House on Wednesday.

6 Numbers That Show President Biden's Greatest Challenges

President Biden is calling for unity to address several current crises, but that will prove difficult in a country as divided as ever.

Michigan state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey was recorded on video calling the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol a "hoax."

Michigan's Top Republican Falsely Calls U.S. Capitol Attack A 'Hoax'

Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey said Tuesday he regretted his "insensitive comments," but he didn't address his claims that the siege was fake.

<strong>Hatching A Star:</strong> The tenacious Hushpuppy, of Benh Zeitlin's <em>Beasts of the Southern Wild</em>, is played by the equally fearless Quvenzhane Wallis, who was plucked for the role from a Louisiana elementary school. "It was an absolute miracle that we found her," Zeitlin says.

'Beasts' Finds Its Heart In A 6-Year-Old Heroine

The film Beasts of the Southern Wild won top honors at Sundance and took a prize for best first film at Cannes. NPR's Melissa Block talks to director Benh Zeitlin about the isolated community he's imagined — and the extraordinary girl who narrates the picture.

Clinton: Other Threats Topped Iraq

When former President Bill Clinton met with George W. Bush before leaving office, he told his successor that Osama bin Laden, the Middle East and North Korea posed more of a threat to U.S. national security than Iraq, Clinton says. In the first part of a two-part interview, Clinton also tells NPR's Juan Williams that bin Laden dominated intelligence discussions at the White House.

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