Sunday's Headlines: Scalia’s death spurs partisan clash

Obama says he'll nominate a replacement, faces fierce opposition; Court thrust into 2016 race, increasing urgency of social issues; First Italian American justice known for intellect, wit, biting opinions; Can the GOP block a nomination all year?; What happens when a justice dies?; Why it's unusual for a justice to die in office; Republican debate turns fierce ahead of S.C. primary; Trump dials up personal attacks; S.C. voters will tell us if it worked; Winners and losers from the 8th Republican debate;   The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Scalia's death spurs partisan clash In an election year, Republicans and Democrats split along party lines on whether President Obama should name a successor to the conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, whose sudden death creates uncertainty about a court term filled with some of the nation's most controversial issues. By Robert Barnes  •  Read more » Obama says he'll nominate a replacement, faces fierce opposition The president said there's "plenty of time" for the Senate to give his nominee "a fair hearing and a timely vote," but Republicans have said a nomination needs to wait for the next president. By Juliet Eilperin and Paul Kane  •  Read more »   Court thrust into 2016 race, increasing urgency of social issues The next president could decide Scalia's replacement, who would determine whether the court leans left or right. By Karen Tumulty  •  Read more »   First Italian American justice known for intellect, wit, biting opinions The intellectual cornerstone of the court's modern conservative wing, Antonin Scalia inspired a movement of legal thinkers and ignited liberal critics with his elegant and acerbic opinions. By Robert Barnes  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Can the GOP block a nomination all year? There is some historical precedent for it. By Amber Phillips  •  Read more »   What happens when a justice dies? The short answer: Washington digs in for a fight. By J. Freedom du Lac and Paul Kane  •  Read more »   Why it's unusual for a justice to die in office It's also noteworthy that far more justices have died when a member of the opposite party holds the White House. By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Lydia DePillis  •  Read more »   Republican debate turns fierce ahead of S.C. primary The GOP presidential candidates clashed on U.S. foreign policy just hours after learning of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death. By Philip Rucker and Jenna Johnson  •  Read more »   Trump dials up personal attacks; S.C. voters will tell us if it worked Refusing to toe the line of political orthodoxy, Donald Trump tore into one of the most revered families in Republican politics and sent a message that he's not backing down, no matter how withering the fire becomes. By Dan Balz  •  Read more »   Winners and losers from the 8th Republican debate This debate was downright nasty. Tons of name-calling. And lots of winners and losers. By Chris Cillizza  •  Read more »   Opinions   What Antonin Scalia’s death means for the presidential campaign By Carter Eskew  •  Read more »   How Flint's water and Brazil's Zika stoke anxiety about kids By Steven Mintz  •  Read more »   If the GOP blocks Obama's Supreme Court nomination, he wins anyway By Linda Hirshman  •  Read more »   The winners of the South Carolina debate By Jennifer Rubin  •  Read more »   I'm always confused with other people. It's because I'm Asian. By Iris Kuo  •  Read more »   Five myths about love By Mandy Len Catron  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   17 years after Columbine, the mother of one of the killers finally tells her story COLUMN | "To the rest of the world, Dylan was a monster; but I had lost my child," writes Sue Klebold in her new memoir, "A Mother's Reckoning." By Carlos Lozada  •  Read more » Canadians crack down on guns, alarmed by flow from U.S. Canada's government wants to stiffen its already tough gun laws and step up surveillance. But a long border with the U.S. makes smuggling relatively easy, and those who try have been using some deviously clever tactics. By William Marsden  •  Read more » Kremlin: Obama called Putin to talk about Syrian ceasefire President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to intensify diplomatic and military cooperation on a ceasefire and aid delivery in Syria, Russian officials said. By Karen DeYoung  •  Read more » Getting to 'Hallelujah!': The frantic final hours of the Oregon refuge occupation How a flamboyant Nevada assemblywoman and Billy Graham's son joined forces with the FBI to end the nerve-wracking five-week standoff. By Kevin Sullivan and Mark Berman  •  Read more » What a divided America actually hears when Obama speaks Two Americans watched the State of the Union and had sharply different reactions, capturing the country's mood and the challenge facing the president — not simply a partisan divide, but a deep mistrust that has become so entrenched that it seems to affect the very way people hear his words and see each other. By Greg Jaffe  •  Read more » No running water and no solutions as California's driest county despairs Given drought-ruined farm fields, many people in rural East Porterville have lost jobs as well as water. By Darryl Fears  •  Read more » Pope Francis confronts Mexico's most-contentious issues on first day of visit The pontiff offered a blunt assessment of the problems plaguing the Spanish-speaking world's largest Catholic nation and the need for faith and honesty to overcome them. By Joshua Partlow and Gabriela Martinez  •  Read more » Mysterious and fast-moving, Zika virus has world's health leaders scrambling Stung by criticism about the response to the Ebola epidemic, officials in Latin America, the United States and Europe are determined to do a better job of stopping Zika's spread. By Lena H. Sun and Brady Dennis  •  Read more » Woo your love with this homemade meal Skip the Valentine's Day prix-fixe dinner. Cook something easy at home — it's cheaper and more fun. By Gabi Moskowitz  •  Read more » Not arranged but a ‘practical marriage’ Some couples forgo sparks to focus on cultural similarities and financial goals, trusting love to follow. By Lavanya Ramanthanan  •  Read more » Still seeing red over a pink slip After a layoff, she doesn't have the career she would like but still has to see her former co-workers. By Karla L. Miller  •  Read more »         Share Today's Headlines:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? 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