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Earlier this week, students pretended to be school officials and proclaimed classes canceled. The media didn't buy it. As a giant storm intensified days later, real administrators canceled classes.

A program in Philadelphia folds lessons in English as a second language into a cooking class. The goal is to add a dash of the familiar to ESL class for new arrivals, and teach healthful eating, too.

"It's not profound regret," Morrison tells Fresh Air. "It's just a wiping up of tiny little messes that you didn't recognize as mess when they were going on." Originally broadcast April 20, 2015.

The flock of more than 150 sheep blocked a road, doing what road spikes couldn't and bringing a 90-minute chase to an end.

Following criticism of the lack of diversity in this year's Oscar nominations, the academy has voted to approve changes aimed at doubling the number of women and people of color by 2020.

The team discusses the growing rift between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, the return of a certain Alaskan politician and Hillary Clinton's surprising go-to snack on the campaign trail.

After the conservative magazine declared that it is "Against Trump," it was barred from a Feb. 25 presidential debate. The move shows how delicately the Republican Party is handling Donald Trump.

Experts say picture books that whitewash the history of slavery are just a symptom of an adult society. How can we explain it to kids, they argue, if we can't talk about it ourselves?

Concern continues to grow over the outbreak of Zika virus in Latin America. The virus has been linked to severe brain damage in babies.

With the impending snowstorm, NPR's global health blog Goats and Soda called out to people from warm parts of the world to hear about their first experiences with snow.