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President Bush will address the United Nations Tuesday to ask for greater international support as the United States struggles to restore stability and self-government in Iraq. Bush's request will be complicated by tensions resulting from the U.S. decision to go to war in Iraq without the U.N. Security Council's approval. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.

"This month, we will reach the deepest deficit of the decade," the Secretary-General warned. If countries don't pay soon, the U.N. will struggle to pay staff and hold meetings, and will limit travel.

Also: Blizzard conditions will strike parts of the northeast today; how the U.K. could punish Russia for its apparent use of a nerve agent; and UConn is the first women's NCAA basketball seed.

Also: The Texas church shooter had a history of domestic violence; combing through changes in the House GOP tax legislation; and understanding people with blindness through meals served in the dark.

Bethany Kozma leads a key global health office at the Department of Health and Human Services. In past experience in the public eye, she's campaigned against abortion and gender-affirming care.

The U.S. and other countries withdrew funding in response to allegations that 12 employees of the UN agency were involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says he is anguished by recurrent allegations of sexual abuse by peacekeepers. The head of the Central African Republic U.N. mission was ousted Wednesday.

The 38 degree Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit) reading in Russian Siberia in June of last year should "sound alarm bells about our changing climate," the World Meteorological Organization says.

March 21 is especially popular — it's got five "international days," from World Poetry Day to International Day of Forests.

The U.S. says it killed a top Iranian general because he was an imminent threat, but others say it was more an assassination than an act of self-defense.