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Ten is an arbitrary number, so NPR's entertainment critic Bob Mondello offers his top 24 movies of 2002. Mondello says 2002 was a record year for box office sales and a better year than 2001 for movie quality. His list ranges from blockbuster adventure to documentary.

Also: Thatchers funeral set for April 17; Kerry and Netanyahu claim progress on Mideast peace; some Plains states getting b buried by spring snow; Louisville men win national basketball championship.

Also: President Trump will talk up his infrastructure ideas today in Washington; Japanese lawmakers permit the Emperor to abdicate; and the Pittsburgh Penguins win Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final.

Also: Vice President Biden talks to Florida Jewish leaders about the Iran deal; a search continues for the killers of an Illinois officer; and a lost sheep is finally sheared of 88 pounds of fleece.

Also: Syria's military says it controls nearly all of Aleppo; a New Orleans jury convicts the man who killed former NFL player Will Smith; and a cyclone makes landfall in India.

Eloy Ortiz Oakley, the chancellor of the California Community Colleges system, wants to kick loose the requirement of algebra for non-STEM majors.

Writer April Salazar always felt proud of her family's Spanish heritage, but after getting back her family's genetic test results, she found there's a lot more to her story than she thought.

The X Games have changed the lineup and atmosphere of the Winter Olympics with the introduction of snowboarding, half-pipe and now slopestyle. But when a youth-lifestyle, punk-rock sport makes it to the Olympics, some things inevitably change.

Some people think competition is an art. Others believe it's a skill. A new book suggests it might be neither — and that there is a science behind winning. Host Michel Martin speaks with authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman about Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing.

The militant group confirmed the death of its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. The development marks a significant escalation many fear is inching towards a larger regional war.