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Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools is in the process of preparing a local funding request to the county commission.

Listener Molly Shuya plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

NPR's Don Gonyea plays the puzzle with KXJZ radio listener Suzanne Palmer and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

On Wednesday, Senate Democrats blocked the chamber's GOP police reform bill. The House will vote on a version drafted by Democratic leaders, but it's not expected to go anywhere.

To mark International Women's Day, the Vatican is opening its doors to a group of women pushing for a greater role in the Catholic Church. The organizers hope to raise issues of church inequality.

L.L. Bean's iconic rubber and leather boots have swung back into fashion with young people and are more popular than ever. The backlog stands at nearly 100,000 pairs; it will take months to catch up.

Ailing Nobel laureate and dissident Liu Xiaobo would prefer not to die in China. But China is more confident of itself, and less willing to send dissidents into exile abroad than it used to be.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch traveled to Baltimore Tuesday to meet with the family of Freddie Gray, police, local officials and members of the community.

Around the world, many of us start our day with a drug derived from a natural insecticide: caffeine. Murray Carpenter tells the tale in Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts and Hooks Us.

Renee Montagne talks with Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about South Africa's 10-day goodbye to Nelson Mandela. His body will lie in state at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, the scene of his presidential inauguration in 1994.