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Also: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is re-elected to a fourth term; the latest nor'easter leaves heavy snow in New England; and it's "Pi Day".

Also: Georgia lawmakers punish Delta over cutting NRA ties; President Trump will attend Rev. Billy Graham's funeral today; and the Iditarod opens tomorrow, enmeshed in controversy.

The current partisan battle over whether a president should be able to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court in an election year is reminiscent of 2016, when Senate Republicans pushed to hold off on filling Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat until after the election. A freshly sworn-in President Donald Trump made the appointment instead of President Barack Obama, who was in office when Scalia passed away that February.

Naturalist Michael Walker tells the BBC that he's gotten lots of videos of hedgehogs causing a commotion in people's yards. Males noisily pursuing females. Or huffing loudly as they fight.

Also: The World Health Organization declares an ebola outbreak in Congo; President Trump will discuss lowering prescription drug prices; and the biggest wave ever in the Southern Hemisphere is seen.

A judge has dismissed a professor's lawsuit against a small, public university in Ohio that rebuked him for not addressing a transgender student using the…

U.S. diplomats staged a rare intervention to rescue the family of a Chinese human rights lawyer. It offers clues, and raises questions, about the Trump administration's human rights approach in China.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Sofía Martínez, an analyst for the International Crisis Group, about the violence driving Central American families to seek asylum in the U.S.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks about the history of how Cuba ended up on the state-sponsored terrorism list.

Former Ohio Gov. and U.S. Rep. John J. Gilligan, a liberal Democrat who won creation of the state income tax, has died. He was 92. His death Monday was…