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What are those dog ears doing on my heart? Ancient anatomists named body parts after things they resembled in real life. So you've got a rooster comb in your skull and a flute in your leg.

Images of children dominate the winners of this year's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, now on display at London's National Portrait Gallery.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Russia expert Kimberly Marten of Barnard College about U.S. actions against Russia for allegedly interfering in the 2016 election.

Carter outthrew favorite Valerie Adams of New Zealand, joining her father as a decorated U.S. Olympian. Men's basketball clinched a narrow win against Serbia in a second game of sloppy defense.

After an unexpectedly mortal performance by Simone Biles, Sanne Wevers seizes an Olympic opportunity.

One of New Orleans' favorite desserts is a lasting legacy of an oft-forgotten chapter in the city's history: the banana trade, and its infamous practices.

A quarter of doctors practicing in the U.S. went to medical school elsewhere. Many of these physicians practice in parts of this country that the government says need more primary care providers.

The state auditor found that $100,000 in retention payments were made to a chancellor who resigned amid controversy, only to be rehired in a new position months later.

Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez won a key endorsement just days before Saturday's vote. Perez and Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota are the race's two front-runners.

The situation Pompeo now faces would test the savviest politician: If confirmed, he will go to work for a president who is openly feuding with the agency he's preparing to run.