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Democratic candidates debate tonight, with the top contenders all on one stage. Issues from healthcare and foreign policy, to who is best positioned to beat President Trump, divide the field.

At two top-tier high schools in Palo Alto, Calif., the suicide rate is four times higher than the national average over the last 10 years. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Hanna Rosin, who's reported for The Atlantic, on what might be behind the trend and how the schools are responding.

Drug deaths are declining but the Trump administration's intelligence team has issued a new report describing street fentanyl as a top threat to the U.S.

Also: Medicare paid billions for poor nursing home care; Boeing proposes fix for 787 Dreamliner's lithium-ion batteries.

Also: Israel's prime minister visits the White House; scores of people are killed by Nigerian militants; South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius pleads not guilty to murder; and the Iditarod opens.

Also: It'll be very hot in several Plains and southern states today; Congress looks at a short term funding bill for highway programs; and hundreds of migrants try to enter the Eurotunnel.

Also: Japanese lawmakers pass controversial bills on the military; flooding leaves four dead in Indiana and Kentucky; and scientists solve an astronomical mystery.

Also: Hundreds of migrants are towed to shore in Indonesia; Burundi arrests generals in an attempted coup; and the Minnesota Orchestra becomes the first major U.S. orchestra to play in Cuba in years.

Also: Airstrikes resume in Yemen; millions of birds are destroyed after bird flu strikes a Minnesota farm; and a daredevil climber dies after a failed jump in Yosemite National Park.

Also: Officials look for foreigners who have children in U.S. for citizenship reasons; much of the U.S. is under winter storm warning; and Nepal says Everest climbers must pack out their waste.