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Sarah Hedgecock · 02/17/14 02:55PM

[Russia's Ilya Burov crashes after landing during men's freestyle skiing aerials qualifying at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Monday. Image via Andy Wong/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/14/14 05:45PM

[Norway's skip Thomas Ulsrud acknowledges the cheers of fan Rune Eikeland during men's curling competition against China at the Winter Olympics on Friday. Image via Robert F. Bukaty/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/12/14 02:19PM

[Germany's Eric Frenzel celebrates winning the gold as he is flanked by Japan's silver medal winner Akito Watabe, left, and Norway's bronze medal winner Magnus Krog during the flower ceremony after the cross-country portion of the nordic combined on Wednesday. Image via Matthias Schrader/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/11/14 05:15PM

[Fans touch wax figures of One Direction members Louis Tomlinson, center, and Liam Payne, second from right, during an unveiling ceremony at Madame Tussauds in Tokyo on Tuesday. Image via Koji Sasahara/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/11/14 11:00AM

[Bode Miller of the United States makes a jump during men's super combined downhill training at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Tuesday in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Image via Luca Bruno/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/06/14 02:06PM

[Firemen take pictures of the Spanish cargo ship "Luno," which slammed into a jetty in choppy Atlantic Ocean waters and broke in two off southwestern France on Thursday. The ship had been heading to a nearby port to load up with cargo when its engine failed and the rough waves carried it into the jetty. Image via Bob Edme/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/05/14 04:38PM

[Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, right, listens to Committee Ranking Member Sen. Chuck Grassley on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday during the committee's hearing on data breaches and combating cybercrime. Image via Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/04/14 12:34PM

[A 14-year-old Gwen Stefani meets Sting to get an autograph backstage. Stefani, who posted this image on her Twitter account, captions the photo, "chunky me 1983." Image via @gwenstefani/Twitter.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/04/14 10:23AM

[The president gives Sunny Obama a belly rub in the White House's Blue Room as Bo and Michelle look on with skepticism. Image via @WhiteHouse/Twitter.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/03/14 02:00PM

[Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, arrive at federal court for a motions hearing in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday. Lawyers for McDonnell and his wife are expected to ask a judge to clarify who the former first couple can speak with prior to their July trial on corruption charges. Image via Steve Helber/AP.]

Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/29/14 10:54PM

[British ballet dancers protested outside of the Russian Embassy today, calling for Vladimir Putin to allow freedom of expression and gay rights in Russia. The protestors danced portions of "Swan Lake," a beloved Russian ballet, on the street outside of the embassy to raise awareness. Image by Dan Kitwood via Getty.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 01/29/14 01:45PM

[In this photo taken with a fisheye lens over the perimeter highway known as "Spaghetti Junction" in Atlanta on Wednesday, the ice-covered system shows the remnants of a winter storm that slammed the city with over 2 inches of snow, turning highways into parking lots when motorists abandoned their vehicles. Image via David Tulis/AP.]

This Is an Average of Every Member of Congress

Sarah Hedgecock · 01/29/14 10:50AM

Using Sunlight Labs' collection of congressional portraits, Matthew Skomarovsky created an average of the faces of all members of Congress. (The collection actually consists of 813 photos, though Skomarovsky hasn't sorted through missing or duplicate portraits yet. Still, we think it's a pretty good likeness.)

Sarah Hedgecock · 01/27/14 02:04PM

[Ice forms as waves crash along the Lake Michigan shore on Monday in Chicago. Below-zero highs have returned to many parts of the Midwest, bringing wind chills ranging from the negative teens to 40s, school cancellations and sighs of resignation from residents who are weary of bundling up. Image via Kiichiro Sato/AP.]

Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/26/14 06:48PM

[Brazilian protestors staged a toilet sit-in on Ipanema beach today to protest the city's substandard sanitation. Much of the city's sewage currently flows untreated into Rio's waterways, although the state government has pledged to update its system before the 2016 Olympics. Image by Felipe Dana via AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 01/24/14 11:41AM

[Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch is airborne on her way to win an alpine ski World Cup women's downhill, in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, on Friday. Image via Marco Trovati/AP.]