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As part of Tell Me More's occasional series "In Your Ear," restaurateur and Top Chef winner Kevin Sbraga shares some of his favorite songs. They include titles from R&B crooner John Legend and hip-hop icons Wu-Tang Clan.

Miss USA beauty pageant contestant, Sheena Monnin of Pennsylvania, says the contest was rigged and that she has left the organization because of its immoral behavior. The Miss USA pageant says Monnin has changed her story, and that she first quit because she opposed transgender contestants.

One man said he and his family retreated to the attic of his home because the water had reached the top of the door frame.

Google Rick Santorum's name and one of the top results is a scatological and sexual site called SpreadingSantorum.com. The site is an online prank, staged in 2003 by gay-rights activist Dan Savage to redefine the former senator's name, that has endured thanks to the power of Google's algorithm.

Imagine racing over a frozen lake on a wind-powered sled, hitting speeds that top 40 miles an hour. That's what ice sailors all around the world do just about anywhere water freezes. In the U.S., Lake Champlain has emerged as one of the country's best ice sailing venues.

In the U.S., 3 percent of the CEOs at top companies are women; in India, that figure is 14 percent. Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett says women in India and other emerging economies, like China and Brazil, are surpassing their American and European counterparts. They're "pointing the way," she says.

A panel of experts convened by U.S. News ranked the best diets. The Mediterranean diet comes out on top. Two new diets are ranked: the physician-created Nutritarian diet and the popular Keto diet.

"It's going to take different leadership at the top," said Don Fox, a former acting director of the Office of Government Ethics. "And that means a different occupant in the White House."

After buying 100 barrels of crude oil and delivering it to a pipeline, NPR's Planet Money team goes to a refinery to see it turned into gasoline.

A new poll asks Americans to name the most famous feminists. Three of the top four are African-American — Michelle Obama, Oprah and Beyoncé. NPR looks into what it means to have three women of color as the new face of feminism.