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The race between Sean Skipworth and Jennifer Lawrence ended in a tie. In accordance with Texas law, the winner would be decided by drawing a name from a top hat. Skipworth was the lucky winner.

Derek Kirk Kim's debut graphic novel Same Difference and Other Stories has won the top three awards of the comic world. He talks with NPR's Jacki Lyden.

The award-winning singer, songwriter and producer, who bowed out as frontman for The Commodores for huge career as a solo artist in the 1980s, has a new CD — a nugget of pure pop craftsmanship that shows he's still at the top of his game.

One hundred years of the tax we all love to hate! Joe Thorndike of the Tax History Project talks to host Jacki Lyden about the history of the income tax in its centennial anniversary month.

The drive to make more milk has had an unsavory side effect: Cows have become more genetically similar and less fertile. Scientists are trying to recover valuable genetic variation that was lost.

Hou Hsiao-Hsien has built worldwide fame, but he's done so with realistic films about normal people. In The Assassin, he upends expectations (and genre conventions) with a medieval action tale.

Hamburg, Iowa, got through the last big flood on the Missouri River years ago by adding to the top of the levy. But federal officials ordered it removed and the town flooded last week.

Florida voters will have the chance to enshrine abortion rights into their constitution. Iran blames Israel for an embassy bombing that killed a top military commander.

Working-class youths invented the steel drum in the 1930s by banging dents in the tops of discarded oil drums to create notes. Today, steelpan is Trinidad's de facto national instrument.

The Las Vegas Aces will face off Sunday against the New York Liberty in the WNBA Finals. NPR's A Martinez talks to basketball analyst Terrika Foster-Brasby about what makes the two teams powerhouses.