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Storm damage in Appomattox County in Virginia on Wednesday. Severe thunderstorms are possible today from upstate New York to Florida. Jill Nance/The News & Advance, via Associated Press
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Your Thursday Briefing
By ADEEL HASSAN
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| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Apple doubles down. |
| Apple engineers are developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone. |
| If the company succeeds, the upgraded security would create a significant technical challenge for law enforcement agencies. |
| Apple's lawyers are preparing to submit a formal response to a court order that it help the F.B.I. unlock an iPhone, used by a mass shooter, by Friday. The company says it will take the dispute all the way to the Supreme Court. |
| • Debate night. |
| The five remaining Republican candidates — Donald J. Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson and John R. Kasich — meet in Houston (8:30 p.m. Eastern, CNN and Telemundo). |
| Many Republicans fear that Mr. Trump won't back Speaker Paul D. Ryan's conservative agenda if he wins the nomination. But there are five ways Mr. Trump could stumble. |
| Bernie Sanders, who is campaigning in Ohio and Illinois today, criticized Hillary Clinton's support of a 1996 welfare reform bill, accusing her of backing legislation that ultimately increased poverty levels. |
| • Storm watch. |
| Severe thunderstorms are possible today from upstate New York to Florida, the National Weather Service says. The same storm system left seven dead in the South. |
| The potential for tornadoes, damaging wind gusts and large hail are greatest over parts of the mid-Atlantic. Parts of the Midwest can expect more heavy snow. |
| • Playing hardball. |
| In an attempt to break through the Republican flank on the Supreme Court vacancy, the White House is vetting the Republican governor of Nevada, Brian Sandoval, as a possible choice. |
| President Obama described what he's looking for in a nominee. Mr. Obama was to speak with senior senators today to discuss the process, but he postponed the meeting after it became clear that Republicans, taking their conflict to a new level, were unlikely to attend. |
| • Europe seeks to block refugees. |
| The possible extension of internal border checks, the policing of external boundaries and a proposed coast guard are being discussed today in Brussels. Officials are worried that the number of migrants will rise sharply in the spring. |
| The aim of the talks is to have a unified policy, but Austria and nine Balkan states announced their own measures to stem the flow of refugees from Greece. |
Business
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| • Foxconn of Taiwan announced today that it had agreed to buy Sharp for $6 billion, but it's now hesitating on the move. |
| • A Treasury Department plan to ease Puerto Rico's debt crisis would put pensions ahead of payments to bondholders, which may rattle the municipal bond market. |
| • Since the end of the recession, the divide between wealthy and poor communities in the U.S. has widened further. |
| That may help explain why the country's economic and political situation has become so polarized in recent years. |
| • The U.S. stock market reversed steep declines and ended slightly higher on Wednesday. Here's a snapshot of world markets. |
Noteworthy
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| • Hollywood in a new light. |
| More than two dozen industry players — all vastly underrepresented women and minorities — shared their personal stories with us, ahead of the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday. |
| A new study finds that the film industry is still a "white boy's club." |
| • A hidden best seller. |
| Though some German bookstores are not displaying an annotated, critical version of Hitler's autobiography "Mein Kampf," the recently published scholarly volume is No. 2 on the German weekly Der Spiegel's best-seller list. |
| Elsewhere in publishing, Simon & Schuster is creating an imprint for Muslim-themed children's books. |
| • The billionaire capital. |
| Beijing has overtaken New York City as the home to the most billionaires — 100 to 95 — a new report shows. |
| But its lead is tenuous, as turbulent markets slow China's growth, and as the country tightens the flow of economic data and cracks down on commentary that officials say could hurt stocks or the currency. |
| • No more "master" at Harvard dorms. |
| Harvard has announced that it will use "faculty dean" instead of "house master" to describe their residential administrators. The title has connotations of slavery. |
| • Tech tips. |
| We teamed up with some experts to show you how to extend your smartphone's battery life. Plus, learn how to clear clutter from the YouTube video screen and load a Kindle library on an iPad. |
| • Recipe recommendation. |
| Our friends at NYT Cooking suggest a dinner of avocado tacos tonight. |
Back Story
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| Black voters didn't have much of a say in recent nomination contests in the heavily white states of Iowa or New Hampshire, but their power will be felt in South Carolina's Democratic primary on Saturday and throughout the South on Super Tuesday. |
| African-Americans have often played pivotal roles in modern elections. In 2016, they can essentially play the part of kingmaker in the Democratic primaries. |
| A crucial chapter in the history of African-American political participation came about 150 years ago, during the post-Civil War period of Reconstruction. |
| In 1870, the 15th Amendment banned race discrimination in voting, three years after Southern blacks gained the right to vote with the Reconstruction Act of 1867. |
| With the vote came representation. With representation came freedmen serving in the state legislatures. |
| With all that came Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Mississippi Republican who was sworn in as the first black member of the U.S. Senate on this day in 1870. |
| Legislatures in most states elected U.S. senators at the time. Revels was appointed to fill the seat vacated when Mississippi seceded from the union. |
| He ushered in a generation of about two dozen black Republican congressmen, all from the South, in the two decades that followed the war. |
| The end of Reconstruction gave way, however, to a period of disenfranchisement at the hands of Southern Democrats, with poll taxes, literacy tests and other measures. |
| It wasn't until 1966 that Edward W. Brooke III, a Massachusetts Republican, became the first African-American to be elected to the Senate by popular vote. |
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