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Conscience or incompetence? Two competing narratives — along partisan lines — have emerged to explain the sudden departure of the head of the Federal Student Aid Office.

If you're searching for music off the beaten path, here's the list for you. NPR Music's Tiny Desk editor and resident Viking scours the corners of the music world to find his favorite records of 2025.

Also: The EPA promises to speed cleanup of Superfund sites; more fires erupt in northern California; and Catalonia's leader stops short of a call for independence from Spain.

Also: Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) claims President Trump risks triggering a new world war; Israeli and Palestinian women march for peace; and cleaning up on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Nate.

Also: Venezuela's ruling party wins gubernatorial elections; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) gets a primary opponent; and Thomas the Tank Engine will feature new female characters.

A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child.

A key al Qaeda leader and five other suspected terrorists are killed in Yemen after the car in which they were riding is attacked by an unmanned aircraft, Yemeni officials say. U.S. officials confirm the strike was a planned CIA attack. Hear NPR's Tom Gjelten.

Gov. Rick Snyder and lawmakers have enacted nearly 270 laws this year, topped by the approval of fuel tax and vehicle registration fee increases to…

The former Trump adviser faces two counts of contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

The Michigan State University College of Engineering has more than 1,000 female undergraduate students for the first time as administrators try to recruit…