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Baseball players have all of spring training to get ready, but for the groundskeeper, Opening Day brings a lot of pressure. NPR spoke with John Tornour, the Washington Nationals' head groundskeeper.

Fourteen others are injured after a collision in the western province of Saskatchewan. Authorities have not released the names and ages of the victims, as condolences poured in from across the nation.

In addition to the two fatalities, the driver injured about 20 people in the western city of Muenster, police say, then killed himself.

Weekend All Things Considered marks National Poetry Month with Detroit poet Jessica Care Moore. From secrets, to storms, she tells us which mini poems in our Twitter feed caught her eye.

Progressive evangelical activists, dismayed over their fellow Christians' continued support for President Trump, are gathering in Lynchburg, Va., home to Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.

Teachers in Oklahoma and Kentucky protested this week. A new report from a government watchdog shows persisting discipline disparities in America's classrooms.

The groundbreaking book was first released in the early 1970s. It gave women frank information about then-taboo topics like masturbation, birth control and female sexual anatomy.

Four days after her husband was killed, Coretta Scott King led a march in Memphis. The act reflected her role as a partner in the struggle for civil rights. "I was impelled to come," she said.

No black author has ever won its top prize. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks about the issue with Alisha Rai, author of the Forbidden Hearts series.

Organizers behind the Boston Marathon have expressed support for transgender people to race under the gender they identify, but transgender runners still face hurdles when it comes to registering.