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Morgan Wallen's <em>I'm the Problem</em> had the biggest week of any album this year.

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Morgan Wallen storms the charts with 'I'm the Problem' — and 36 of its songs

This week, the album at No. 1 on the charts is one everyone saw coming: With the biggest streaming numbers of 2025 and strong sales to boot, Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem is the chart-topper it had always seemed destined to become.

May 28, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Xi Jinping, left, with his father Xi Zhongxun in 1958.

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  • Author Interviews

In 'The Party's Interests Come First,' Joseph Torigian tries to understand Xi Jinping through his father

In his forthcoming book, The Party's Interests Come First, American University professor Joseph Torigian writes about Xi Jinping's father, Xi Zhongxun, a noted Chinese politician himself.

May 28, 2025
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  • Emily Feng
Trump announced Tuesday that he will grant full pardons to reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, pictured in 2017.

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Trump is pardoning Todd and Julie Chrisley, the reality TV couple convicted of fraud

Todd and Julie Chrisley, who rose to fame in a reality show highlighting their lavish lifestyle, had been serving yearslong prison sentences after 2022 convictions on bank and tax fraud offenses.

May 28, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
Three heroes face a door to the final boss at the end of a Nightreign run.

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Review: 'Nightreign' is a mini supercharged 'Elden Ring' for co-op fanatics

Nightreign shrinks Elden Ring down into intense expeditions that demand tight three-player coordination. It's a joy for co-op fans, but sacrifices the expansiveness that made the original game so compelling.

May 28, 2025
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  • James Perkins Mastromarino
Homebuilding has slowed as Americans face economic uncertainty and high mortgage rates. Here, construction workers install a lumber roof on a new home last month in Laveen, Ariz.

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  • Business

'We're in a holding pattern': Home sales and building slump in the face of uncertainty

Would-be homebuyers are finding lots of reasons to wait.

May 28, 2025
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  • Laurel Wamsley
Capricorn Clark, a former employee of Sean Combs, leaves the Manhattan courthouse where she testified that Combs repeatedly threatened her and kidnapped her in during a series of events in 2011 that also involved Kid Cudi and Cassie Ventura, both of whom have also testified.

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  • Music

Former Sean Combs employee Capricorn Clark says he kidnapped her

On Tuesday, Clark, who worked for Combs for more than a decade, accused him of kidnapping her during a chaotic 2011 episode involving his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, and the rapper Kid Cudi.

May 28, 2025
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Participants carry balloons spelling out "Pride" during the 51st LGBTQ Pride Parade in Chicago on June 26, 2022.

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  • Arts & Life

Word of the Week: How 'pride' shifted from vice to a symbol of LGBTQ empowerment

The word pride has shifted over the millennia, from being first used to describe one of the seven deadly sins in Roman Catholic theology to becoming a global symbol for LGBTQ strength and empowerment.

May 28, 2025
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  • Juliana Kim

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  • Music

Vijay Iyer's art of listening

The MacArthur fellow sits down with Lara Downes at the Big Ears Festival to discuss the creative states of improvising, composing and collaborating.

May 28, 2025
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  • Lara Downes
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a hearing of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Washington.

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  • Education

U.S. stops scheduling visa interviews for foreign students

The State Department has halted the scheduling of new visa interviews for foreign students while it prepares to expand the screening of their activity on social media, officials said.

May 28, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, on Tuesday, in Jasionka, Poland.

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  • Europe

Noem urges Poles to elect Trump ally as CPAC holds its first meeting in Poland

The Conservative Political Action Conference held its first meeting in Poland on Tuesday, just days before a presidential election between a liberal mayor and a conservative backed by President Trump.

May 28, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
This image provided by the Arkansas Department of Corrections shows Grant Hardin, a former police chief and convicted killer, escaping the North Central Unit prison wearing a disguise in Calico Rock, Ark.

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  • National

Ex-police chief sentenced for rape and murder escaped prison disguised as prison guard

Law officers searched Arkansas' rugged Ozark Mountains for an ex-police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison by impersonating a guard and walking out through a gate a guard opened for him.

May 28, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
SpaceX's mega rocket Starship is prepared for a test flight from Starbase, Texas, on Monday, May 26, 2025.

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Elon Musk's Starship rocket loses control on its 9th launch

Several dummy satellites were supposed to be launched, but a door on the ship did not open as planned.

May 28, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel and
  • Ayana Archie

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  • Middle East

Almost 180,000 Palestinians displaced by latest Israeli military offensive

Israel has ordered tens of thousand of Gazans to move to zone in the south

May 27, 2025
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  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Anas Baba
The CDC is removing recommendations that children and pregnant people get the COVID vaccine.

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  • Health

RFK Jr. says COVID shots no longer recommended for kids, pregnant women

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. announced that CDC recommendations for COVID vaccines will no longer include healthy pregnant women and healthy children.

May 27, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
Harvard University's campus in Cambridge, Mass., pictured on Saturday, as students prepared to graduate.

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  • Education

Trump administration moves to cancel remaining federal funds to Harvard

A letter from the U.S. General Services Administration, which is dated Tuesday, tells agencies to submit a list of contracts they have terminated with the university by June 6.

May 27, 2025
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  • Elissa Nadworny
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