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China is scapegoating goats for a drop in the number of babies born last year — and hopes that the coming year of the monkey will be better.

Bill reads three news-related limericks...I'll be your weighter tonight; The Equivocating Vasectomy; Silent Movies

Our panelists tell three stories about a kids' TV show making news, only one of which it true.

Cities across the U.S. have seen surges in ER visits and hospitalizations tied to an evolving category of chemical substances, such as K2 or Spice. What can be done?

If you're a Republican who wants to win New Hampshire, you're supposed to be nice to the Union Leader newspaper and the Sununu family. Unless you're Donald Trump.

Whenever artist Vanessa German worked on her porch, kids asked if they could help. Now, in a neighborhood struggling with poverty and crime, she's created a place where they can make art of their own.

Musician Brooke Waggoner was on a coffee run when she got a worrisome text from a friend, whose husband was dealing with a life-threatening heart problem. The news gave her a shiver — and an idea.

Bill Bryson follows up his classic travelogue Notes From A Small Island 20 years later — older, grayer, and definitely crankier. It's a charming trip, though marred by a little too much grumpiness.

NPR's Rachel Martin notes an art installation, of sorts, by Tim Grotting. During the winter, the Minneapolis resident freezes pants and sets them upright in his neighborhood.

First Mali, now Burkina Faso. West Africa has become the latest target for Al Qaeda, and it's mostly Westerners the militants have killed.