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President Bush named top White House economic adviser Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board on Monday to succeed the near-legendary Alan Greenspan.

It's still summer, but signs indicate that the season of Taylor Swift's album chart dominance may be coming to an end. This week's harbinger: a certain face-tattooed rapper-turned-country star.

Also: How Congress could save DACA; Aung San Suu Kyi says fake news is to blame for misinformation on fleeing Rohingyas; and the Blue Jays and the Red Sox play baseball's longest game this season.

Two big surprises awaited Paul Bremer when he arrived in Iraq: that the country's chaos made it ripe for insurgency; and that the U.S. government would withhold additional troops. Bremer became the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in May of 2003.

Sports Minded host Brittany Young and guest/former Mississippi State women's basketball teammate and Murrah High School Head Girls Basketball Coach Candace Foster recap the men's and women's Final Four. They also talk top women's basketball players in the transfer portal who have already committed to another school and where the players who are still available will land.

Also in our weekly roundup, rural teens are experiencing homelessness, and four universities are suing the federal government over international student immigration rules.

Congressional leaders and top security officials say the U.S. Capitol will be well-prepared for a far-right rally expected for the area this Saturday.

So many of Chang's favorite films this year seemed to be in close conversation with each other that it didn't make sense, in the end, for him to separate them.

It's been a month since Hurricane Dorian slammed into the Bahamas. The hardest hit area was Marsh Harbour which is still struggling to come back. Most residents have fled, further slowing recovery.

In a year when hip-hop was frequently absent from the pop charts, NPR's music critic found that looking in darker corners revealed a genre that was flourishing.