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When a public school couldn't attract a theater teacher, it hired a stand-up comedian. School lunch is taking a ribbing, but the school says the students are learning useful academic skills.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with WNBA star Brittney Griner about her new memoir, Coming Home.

The last show of the pop icon's "Celebration" retrospective tour brought over a million and a half fans to Rio de Janeiro's famed Copacabana Beach on Saturday night.

Iowa’s Republican leaders say they’ll fight a federal lawsuit expected to be filed tomorrow against the state’s new law making it a state crime for a person to illegally re-enter the country. A bill that would have allocated funding for addiction treatment from lawsuits against prescription opioid sellers didn’t make it through the legislature this year. And a federal judge says the Des Moines Art Center cannot remove an outdoor artwork it wants to take out over safety concerns.

The concert was the final stop of Madonna's "Celebration Tour, and tickets were free. It was on Saturday at Brazil's Copacabana Beach. About 1.6 million people were there to cherish the event.

Some doctors are promoting propellant-free inhalers over puff inhalers that emit greenhouse gases. Climate change can exacerbate respiratory ills because of more fires, air pollution and allergens.

Griner's new memoir recounts being humiliated by guards, of the pain from squeezing her 6-foot-9 frame into cramped beds and cage, and cutting her locs because it was so cold that her hair froze.

A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada.

In a close finish, Mystik Dan won the 150th running of the race on Saturday.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Larry Demeritte, the first Black trainer to participate in the Kentucky Derby since 1989.