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A campaign rally for Donald J. Trump in Radford, Va., on Monday. The candidate is expected to do well today, Super Tuesday. Damon Winter/The New York Times
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Your Tuesday Briefing
By ADEEL HASSAN
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| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Super Tuesday voting. |
| Donald J. Trump could all but secure his path to the nomination today, thanks to rules drawn up by the Republican Party to allow a front-runner to clinch it quickly. Intentionally or not, his candidacy is resonating with — and galvanizing — white supremacists. |
| Nearly half the delegates for the Republican nomination are at stake; about a third needed to become the Democrats' pick are up for grabs. Here's a state-by-state breakdown. |
| Hillary Clinton is already looking ahead to November, with a strategy to defeat Mr. Trump. The shift comes as the last set of emails from the 30,000 messages on her private computer server, used when she was secretary of state, are released. |
| • At the White House. |
| President Obama is to meet with Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, and Senator Charles E. Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, about filling the Supreme Court vacancy. |
| • Privacy versus security. |
| A House committee is scheduled to hold a hearing with the F.B.I. and Apple. The agency's director will argue that private companies' encryption technology helps criminals, while the company's top lawyer will counter that unlocking one iPhone weakens the security of all iPhones. |
| On Monday, a federal judge denied a government request to open up an iPhone in a New York drug case. |
| • Health roundup. |
| A group of cancer researchers has found that nearly $3 billion in cancer medicine is thrown out each year because many drug makers use vials that hold more than what most patients need. |
| A new study of 42 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome offers the strongest evidence to date that the Zika virus can cause temporary paralysis, researchers say. |
| • The migrants' plight. |
| Demolition teams in France are tearing down part of a makeshift camp known as "the jungle," where there have been clashes between riot police and migrants; and Macedonia's police fired tear gas at increasingly desperate asylum seekers. |
| Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, is expected to address the refugee crisis in Europe, which could hurt her party in regional elections this month. |
| • Insight into the Bin Laden raid. |
| The Obama administration will release today the second set of documents and other items from the May 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. |
| American officials have said that a team of Navy SEALs seized letters, spreadsheets, books and pornography. Only a small fraction of the materials have been declassified and released. |
Business
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| • A $4.65 billion agreement between Argentina and four "holdout" hedge funds promises to end a 15-year dispute and could revive the country's economy. |
| • Automakers will report February sales of new vehicles in the U.S. today, and are expected to post significant gains from a year earlier because of low gas prices, easy credit and big discounts. |
| • Overdraft practices continue to hurt bank balances and to confuse consumers, as many miss details tucked into fine print. |
| • Life and disability insurers sometimes set higher rates for women who have depression after childbirth, or decline them coverage. |
| • U.S. stocks lost nearly all of February's gains on Monday. Here's a snapshot of global markets. |
Noteworthy
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| • That's some silent treatment. |
| Justice Clarence Thomas asked several questions from the Supreme Court bench on Monday, something he hadn't done in 10 years. |
| • Post-Oscars roundup. |
| Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony was the lowest-rated one in eight years and the third-lowest since the mid-1970s. Our critics weigh in on Chris Rock and the Oscar whiteout, and the host's joke about Asians is provoking a backlash. |
| The Boston Globe newsroom is rejoicing over the triumph of "Spotlight" as best picture. The film is based on the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize-winning series exposing the Roman Catholic Church's cover-up of sexual abuse by priests. |
| • Airline seat innovation? |
| A division of Airbus has applied for a patent for a seat design that can be adjusted to give more space for overweight fliers. |
| But it won't recline and won't have armrests in the middle. |
| • From The Times's archives. |
| Black History Month has ended, but you can still view our previously unpublished photographs of black history. |
| • For your plate? |
| Skip the restaurant tonight with this shortcut to steak frites, a delicious and reliable French dish. |
Back Story
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| The astronaut Scott J. Kelly is coming back to Earth tonight, after spending 340 consecutive days at the International Space Station, a laboratory for scientific experiments. It's the longest stay in space for a NASA astronaut. |
| "The Brick Moon," a science-fiction tale published in 1869 in The Atlantic Monthly, may have been the first to imagine a manned satellite. |
| About a century later, the Soviets launched the first space station, Salyut 1, in 1971. The U.S. followed with Skylab in 1973. The longest an astronaut stayed there was 84 days. |
| In 1986, the Soviets launched Mir, the first permanently operated space station, which stayed in orbit for 15 years. |
| The first module of the International Space Station, a project of five space agencies, was launched in 1998. Like the Mir, it was assembled in space, piece by piece. |
| A crew arrived in 2000, and the space station has been continuously occupied since. The interlocking set of labs, living quarters and support equipment are about the size of a football field. All told, it has cost about $100 billion. |
| There are many ways to measure Mr. Kelly's nearly yearlong mission. Among them, he traveled 143,846,525 miles, worked on more than 400 experiments and logged about 650 miles on a treadmill. |
| Your Morning Briefing is published weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern and updated on the web all morning. |
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