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Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton were the big winners on Super Tuesday. Mark Makela for The New York Times
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Your Wednesday Briefing
By ADEEL HASSAN
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| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Trump and Clinton each gain seven states. |
| The races aren't over and the front-runners haven't amassed enough delegates to clinch their parties' nominations, but Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton are already looking ahead to November after their Super Tuesday victories. |
| Ted Cruz won three states, including his own, Texas; Marco Rubio won only in Minnesota. For the Democrats, Bernie Sanders won four states. |
| Mr. Trump can still be beaten by his Republican rivals, though it is less likely, and Mr. Sanders's chances appear to be diminished. One conclusion: Democrats are falling in line and Republicans are falling apart. |
| Full Results | 7 Takeaways | Candidates' Speeches |
| • At the Supreme Court. |
| Justices will hear today the first major abortion case in almost a decade, one that has the potential to revise constitutional standards and to affect millions of women. |
| Justice Antonin Scalia's death may have muted the prospect of truly bold action, but even a 4-to-4 tie would have enormous consequences, because it would leave in place an appeals court decision that could drive down the number of abortion clinics in Texas to about 10. |
| • U.S. captures ISIS fighter. |
| An elite Special Operations force has captured a significant Islamic State operative in Iraq, and it is expected to apprehend and interrogate a number of others. |
| It's a crucial development in the fight against militants, but it also raises questions about handling what is likely to be a growing group of prisoners. |
| • Containing North Korea. |
| The U.N. Security Council votes today on a resolution that would impose the toughest sanctions on North Korea in two decades. |
| • Bill on transgender bathroom access is vetoed. |
| The Republican governor of South Dakota, Dennis Daugaard, has rejected a measure that would have restricted bathroom access for transgender students. |
| • Nazi medic's trial in peril. |
| The trial of Hubert Zafke on 3,681 counts of accessory to murder at the Auschwitz death camp is close to collapsing, after a doctor found the 95-year-old unfit to be transported to court. |
Business
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| • The F.B.I.'s chief acknowledges that the agency lost a chance to capture data from the iPhone used by one of the gunmen in San Bernardino, Calif. |
| • A tax on carbon emissions in British Columbia works as advertised, our columnist writes. |
| • Johnson & Johnson and Bayer, in an effort to protect a blockbuster drug, misled the editors of a prestigious medical journal, a document claims. |
| • The U.S. government has, for the first time, met its goal of awarding 5 percent of the money it spends on contractors to businesses owned by women. |
| • U.S. stocks had their best day in more than a month on Tuesday. Here's a snapshot of global markets. |
Noteworthy
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| • New reads. |
| Among this week's nonfiction releases: "The Highest Glass Ceiling," about women's pursuit of the White House; and "The Profiteers," an investigative account of Bechtel, a family-owned U.S. corporation and the world's largest contractor, which "owes its entire fortune to the U.S. government." |
| There's also "Dark Territory," about cyberwar; "Murder Over a Girl," the chronicle of a school killing; and, finally, for some relief, "The Secret Life of the American Musical." |
| • Nuclear bunker could be shut. |
| A bunker where President John F. Kennedy would have been taken if war had erupted while he was at his family's estate in Palm Beach, Fla., is at the center of a legal dispute. |
| • In memoriam. |
| Thousands of people attended the funeral on Tuesday of Ashley Guindon, 28, a police officer who was fatally shot on her first day on the job in Virginia. |
| • Sports roundup. |
| The Ivy League will ban tackles during practice, a move seeking to reduce concussions among football players. |
| The star Yankees pitcher Aroldis Chapman has been suspended for 30 games, in the first such move under baseball's new domestic violence policy. |
| • A year in space. |
| A two-part TV series chronicles Scott Kelly's stay at the International Space Station, and it includes his identical-twin astronaut brother, Mark. |
| Scientists are using Mark as a control subject to determine the effects of a long stay in space, as they share the same DNA. (8 p.m. Eastern, PBS, but check local listings). |
| • Piece of cake. |
| This citrus chicken dish is at once crisp and moist, tangy and sweet, and it'll take you only 30 minutes to prepare. |
Back Story
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| The sports world has been spinning since Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors star, broke his own N.B.A. record for most 3-pointers made in a single season on Saturday night. |
| Curry has almost a third of the regular season left to continue redefining how we understand basketball. But he's not the first player to do so. |
| There's a record that neither he nor any other player will most likely touch. |
| On this day in 1962, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks in Hershey, Pa. The closest anyone has come since was in 2006, when Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers put up 81 points against the Toronto Raptors. |
| Chamberlain, a 7-foot-1-inch center, was unstoppable. He had 23 points at the end of the first quarter and 41 by halftime. |
| As the Warriors repeatedly fed him the ball inside, Chamberlain had racked up 98 points with 1 minute 27 seconds left. He scored the magical triple-digit number with 46 seconds left. Pandemonium erupted. Game over. |
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