Tuesday's Headlines: Battle over Scalia’s replacement spilling into Senate races

Conspiracy theories swirl around the death of Scalia; Venezuela faces 'worst-case scenario' as Zika outbreak expands; Tightening Nevada race threatens Clinton 'firewall'; Eight years later, Bill Clinton is causing headaches for his wife again;   The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Larry French / Getty Images For People For The Battle over Scalia's replacement spilling into Senate races With Republicans saying they will block any attempt to confirm a new justice this year, the party faces the prospect of political damage to some of its embattled Senate incumbents up for reelection this fall. By Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin  •  Read more » Conspiracy theories swirl around the death of Scalia A former D.C. homicide commander joins the fray, saying he is "stunned" by the failure to even examine the justice's body for hours after it was found. By Lena H. Sun and Sari Horwitz  •  Read more »   Venezuela faces 'worst-case scenario' as Zika outbreak expands The epidemic has struck as the country is spiraling into economic chaos, and the public health system has been stripped of many basic tools of modern medicine. By Joshua Partlow  •  Read more »   Tightening Nevada race threatens Clinton 'firewall' The state's caucuses were once expected to fall easily to Hillary Clinton. But Bernie Sanders is hoping to use them to prove she can be beaten anywhere. By David Weigel and John Wagner  •  Read more »   Eight years later, Bill Clinton is causing headaches for his wife again Democrats agree that Hillary Clinton's most famous surrogate hurts her when he has "histrionic episodes" on the campaign trail. By Abby Phillip  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Opinions   The ugly political spectacle around Justice Scalia's death By Dana Milbank  •  Read more »   Reid to GOP: For the good of the country, stop your nakedly partisan obstruction By Harry Reid  •  Read more »   On Iraq, Trump was right, and it could hurt him By Richard Cohen  •  Read more »   Republican obstructionism is nothing new By Catherine Rampell  •  Read more »   Senators, do your job and vote on the next Court nominee By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   How Donald Trump's campaign has done us a great service By Eugene Robinson  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   Taylor Swift fires back at Kanye West in not-so-subtle Grammy acceptance speech No one had to guess who she was talking about as she accepted the award for album of the year. By Emily Yahr  •  Read more » 10 highlights from the Grammys There were so many ballads and so many tributes, but the occasionally plodding ceremony also had some big moments. By Emily Yahr  •  Read more » An icy, treacherous commute as D.C. area starts to thaw out Temperatures are rising, but it still may take a few hours for the ice coating roads and sidewalks to melt. By Matt Rogers  •  Read more » Racial profiling seen as a weapon in Europe's war on terrorism Minorities across the continent, especially Muslims, say they are being targeted, and activists say the profiling has never been so frequent and obvious. By Anthony Faiola  •  Read more » Cruz, Trump attempt to verbally obliterate each other in S.C. Ahead of the state's crucial primary, the senator and billionaire businessman exchanged a threat of a lawsuit, accusations of lying and assertions that one of them has "lost it." By Katie Zezima and Philip Rucker  •  Read more » George W. Bush returns to campaign trail In his debut appearance stumping for his brother, the former president rebuked Trump for his "bluster" and "theatrics." By Ed O'Keefe and Philip Rucker  •  Read more » Faculty asked the Mount St. Mary’s president to resign. He didn’t. They had voted to ask Simon Newman to resign by 9 a.m. Monday. Instead, he was on campus Monday for a student rally. By Susan Svrluga  •  Read more »         Share Today's Headlines:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you are signed up for Headlines. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2016 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071