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On Tuesday, a dozen states will hold primaries or caucuses.(Photo: Toby Brusseau, AP)
Super Tuesday: Will Trump, Clinton pull away in the 2016 race?<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
It's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the most consequential day so far in the 2016 race for the presidency: Super Tuesday. Twelve states hold contests in all between the two parties.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>No state is more crucial than Texas for both sides:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>It has by far the most delegates up for grabs.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Republican<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Donald Trump<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was leading<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in nearly every Super Tuesday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>state,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>according<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>polling averages. A clean sweep would give Trump a nearly insurmountable lead, but<span style="color: Red;">*</span>don't count out<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Ted Cruz, who<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was leading in his home state of Texas.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Marco Rubio figures to do well in Minnesota and will look to amass delegates in several other states as well.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton was leading<span style="color: Red;">*</span>polling averages<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in every Super Tuesday state, except for Bernie Sanders’ home state of Vermont. USA TODAY will have live coverage from all the contests.
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The 2016 presidential election certainly has its front-runners, but it's still early. See why Super Tuesday is super important for the candidates. VPC
Apple, FBI take fight to Congress
The House Judiciary Committee will host a hearing Tuesday on software<span style="color: Red;">*</span>encryption, as Apple and the FBI<span style="color: Red;">*</span>continue the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>battle over an iPhone connected to the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif. FBI Director James Comey and Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell are expected to testify. In prepared remarks, Sewell says following through with the FBI’s request for Apple to break into the phone of one of the shooters<span style="color: Red;">*</span>will “weaken the security of our products.” The hearing comes a day after a federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., denied a Department of Justice request for a court order to break into an iPhone<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in a drug case.
A 23-year-old man was shot dead outside a Baptist church after using an app to trace an iPhone that had been stolen from his car.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Erik S. Lesser, European Pressphoto Agency)
Astronaut to return<span style="color: Red;">*</span>after almost a year in space
Astronaut Scott Kelly will return to Earth on Tuesday, wrapping up a record-setting 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station. Kelly has spent more time in orbit on a single mission than any other U.S. astronaut, but he says, "I could go another year if I had to." Along with two Russian cosmonauts, he<span style="color: Red;">*</span>will ride a Soyuz spacecraft back to Earth and land in the steppes of Kazakhstan. Kelly, who often tweeted about his mission,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>will undergo<span style="color: Red;">*</span>extensive studies on how the human body tolerates long bouts in space.
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Astronaut Scott Kelly is spending his free time on the International Space Station playing ping-pong with a water droplet. Newslook
Tornado-chasing science gets sequel
Starting Tuesday, 40 weather scientists will fan out across the Southeast, focusing<span style="color: Red;">*</span>on the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Dixie Alley, a region frequently hit by deadly<span style="color: Red;">*</span>tornadoes. Known as VORTEX-SE — an acronym for "Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment, Southeast" — the project follows in the footsteps of research that began 22 years ago in the “Tornado Alley” of the Great Plains and sparked the 1996 movie<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Twister. Congress allocated $5 million for the effort in 2011 after a tornado outbreak that left hundreds dead.
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Maybe because Dorothy's trip to Oz was courtesy of a Kansas tornado, we've always thought that twisters were more common in the Great Plains. But tornadoes actually kill more people and do more damage in the Southeast than they do in the central U.S. USA TODAY
Funeral for rookie cop killed on her first day of work
A Virginia police officer<span style="color: Red;">*</span>killed her first day on the job will be remembered at a Tuesday funeral<span style="color: Red;">*</span>service. Ashley Guindon,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>28, was on her first shift for the Prince William County, Va., police force when she was shot after responding to a domestic dispute.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>She died from her injuries Saturday. Police say<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Army Sgt. Ronald Hamilton<span style="color: Red;">*</span>opened fire on Guindon<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and two other<span style="color: Red;">*</span>officers as they approached his<span style="color: Red;">*</span>door in response to a 911 call. Hamilton's wife, Crystal, was found dead inside the home. Hamilton, who police say admitted to the shootings, is being held without bail on murder and other charges.
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Strangers came to honor fallen Virginia police officer Ashley Guindon, who was shot and killed during her first day on the job. VPC
And<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the essentials:
Weather:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Showers, thunderstorms and snow will hit the central U.S. while another storm slams into the Pacific Northwest on Tuesday.
Stocks:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>U.S. stock futures were higher Tuesday.
TV Tonight:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Wondering<span style="color: Red;">*</span>what to watch tonight? TV critic Robert Bianco looks at<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Voice,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Carter and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Grinder.
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