Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Wednesday's Headlines: Trump dominates GOP field

South helps Clinton widen lead; For the GOP establishment, a nightmarish Super Tuesday; Super Tuesday's winners and losers; The many pained expressions of Chris Christie standing behind Donald Trump; Justices to hear arguments on Texas abortion-clinics case; The forgotten history of Justice Ginsburg's criticism of Roe v. Wade; The cold, wet wait overnight to hear the case at the Supreme Court;
 
Today's Headlines
The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors
 
 
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Trump dominates GOP field
But Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio saw glimmers of hope, with Cruz winning his home state of Texas and in Oklahoma and Rubio swaying late deciders.
South helps Clinton widen lead
Bernie Sanders held his own, winning four states, but the former secretary of state claimed seven and is now on a path toward a permanent lead among delegates.
For the GOP establishment, a nightmarish Super Tuesday
The window to stop Donald Trump has closed almost entirely, and the only candidate who has been able to beat him more than once so far is Ted Cruz, the nemesis of Republican congressional leaders.
 
Super Tuesday's winners and losers
It was a good night for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. For Marco Rubio, Chris Christie and the GOP establishment, not so much.
 
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The many pained expressions of Chris Christie standing behind Donald Trump
Christie has a few things on his mind, apparently.
 
Justices to hear arguments on Texas abortion-clinics case
In the Supreme Court's most important abortion case in a generation, it will consider how far states may go in regulating the practice before violating a woman's constitutional rights.
 
The forgotten history of Justice Ginsburg's criticism of Roe v. Wade
When the second female justice was nominated in 1993, President Bill Clinton termed her stance on abortion rights "very provocative."
 
The cold, wet wait overnight to hear the case at the Supreme Court
Fueled by Cheez-its, Dr. Pepper, prayer and strong opinions, activists on both sides of the blockbuster abortion case kept a long vigil outside in hopes of scoring a seat inside.
 
 
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Donald Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican Party
 
Why Democrats didn't feel the Bern
 
Republicans: Get used to Hillary Clinton
 
Chris Christie’s wordless screaming
 
The Republican Party is not lost. Yet.
 
Trump supporters are inoculated against the truth
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Secret Service to investigate incident with Time photographer at Trump rally
The scuffle with the journalist during Donald Trump's appearance in Virginia and concerns about how the agency handled protesters at the event prompted questions about the Secret Service's role on the campaign trail.
Time off the bench: The social lives of Supreme Court justices
Antonin Scalia loved a good party and Ruth Bader Ginsburg supports the arts, but former justice David Souter was never seen out and about.
NASA spaceman back from record year flight; gives thumbs up
Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented year in space for NASA, landing in barren Kazakhstan with a Russian cosmonaut who shared the entire journey.
South Texas's only abortion clinic is battleground for major Supreme Court case
The debate over abortion often involves sweeping abstractions. But what happens inside this McAllen clinic — and just beyond its walls — illustrates how abortion is experienced in America, decades after Roe v. Wade.
Trying to squeeze into that airline seat? Congress is feeling the pinch, too.
Americans' growing backsides don't fit into shrinking seats on airplanes.
Americans are wasting $3 billion a year of cancer drugs
Expensive cancer drugs are wasted because their single-use packages contain more medication than needed, researchers said.
Obama will watch Tampa Bay Rays battle Cuban national team during trip to Havana
The president will take in the March 22 exhibition game that was announced Tuesday, the first trip for a big league team to Cuba since the Orioles paid a visit in 1999.
 
     
 
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