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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.

Weekend Edition guest host Don Gonyea speaks with Silvio Pietroluongo of Billboard Magazine about the recent changes to the formula for the "Hot 100" chart. Billboard now incorporates the number of views on YouTube to determine the top songs in the country.

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.

Also: Blast kills young girls in Afghanistan; Egypt's draft constitution gets support in first stage of voting; Sen. John Kerry expected to be tapped for secretary of state.

Also: Explosion rocks Kansas City; Office Depot and Office Max to merge; Jesse Jackson Jr. expected to plead guilty; NHL's Blackhawks tie record for best start.

Also: Obama looks for "spring thaw" with Congress; Chávez's final words; Berlusconi's conviction; and winter storm moves into New England.

Also: Nelson Mandela remains hospitalized in serious but stable condition; Apple has some announcements to make; and was the Tony Awards' opening the best ever?

Also: U.S. spied on United Nations, German media report; jurors to soon begin weighing death penalty for Fort Hood killer; George Zimmerman will ask state of Florida to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills.

Also: Greece relocates some migrants to Luxembourg; the Supreme Court stays a Missouri inmate's execution; and a long-lost short Disney film is discovered.

Also: The House passes a transportation bill but doesn't fund all of it; there'll be fewer candidates onstage at the next GOP presidential debate; and a double-facing Picasso painting is auctioned.