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A Nevada caucus-goer in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Donald J. Trump's victory in the state adds pressure for his rivals ahead of the Super Tuesday contests. Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
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Your Wednesday Briefing
By ADEEL HASSAN
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| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Trump's emphatic victory. |
| Donald J. Trump captured the Republican caucuses in Nevada on Tuesday, showing the breadth of his appeal and propelling him into next week's Super Tuesday contests with three straight wins. Marco Rubio finished a distant second, followed closely by Ted Cruz. |
| While Mr. Trump gives the impression that he's a big power broker in New York, our reporting shows otherwise. |
| • On the trail. |
| As the Republican candidates fan across the Super Tuesday primary states, Hillary Clinton is in South Carolina, which holds its Democratic primary on Saturday, and Bernie Sanders campaigns in Missouri and Oklahoma. |
| The secular image Mr. Sanders projects is complicating the way American Jews view the historic nature of his candidacy. |
| Separately, a Hispanic group estimates that at least 13.1 million Latinos will vote in the presidential election November, a 17 percent increase over 2012. |
| • What Congress won't do. |
| Senate Republicans say there will be no confirmation hearings, no vote, not even a courtesy meeting with President Obama's Supreme Court nominee. One justice has addressed the prospect of an eight-member court. |
| Also facing near-certain rejection by Congress: Mr. Obama's new plan to close the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. |
| • The Russian wild card. |
| The U.S. and Russia have cobbled together a partial truce for Syria, to go into effect this week, but many questions remain about the Kremlin's goals for the Middle East, Ukraine and the European Union. |
| President Obama meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan today to discuss the Syria conflict and the needs of 1.4 million refugees in Jordan. |
| • Apple versus the F.B.I. |
| The Justice Department is requesting Apple's help in unlocking at least nine more iPhones, in addition to the phone used by one of the San Bernardino, Calif., attackers. |
| The revelation appears to reinforce the company's concerns that the dispute could pose a threat to encryption safeguards. |
| • New Zika fears. |
| U.S. health authorities are investigating 14 new reports of the Zika virus possibly being transmitted by sex, including to pregnant women. |
| If confirmed, they would have major implications for controlling the mosquito-borne virus, as scientists had believed sexual transmission of Zika to be extremely rare. |
| • Bolivian leader's bid is rejected. |
| An official tally from a referendum shows that President Evo Morales has failed in his quest to run for a fourth term. |
| He had sought to change the country's Constitution to allow him to stay in office until 2025, if voters kept electing him. |
Business
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| • The airbag maker Takata faked test data more than a year after a major recall, a Senate report says. About 28 million of its inflaters have been recalled. |
| • Women spend more than double the amount of time on unpaid work like grocery shopping, child care and laundry than men do — and new data shows an economic cost to the imbalance. |
| • Mars is recalling chocolate bars in 55 countries, mainly in Europe, after a piece of plastic was found in one of its products. |
| • U.S. stock indexes declined more than 1 percent on Tuesday. Here's a snapshot of world markets. |
Noteworthy
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| • Honoring Alabama marchers. |
| Congress's highest civilian honor will be given to the men and women who marched peacefully from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 to demand equal voting rights (3 p.m. Eastern, streaming). |
| • Search for scholars. |
| Philip H. Knight, the co-founder and chairman of Nike, has pledged to give Stanford $400 million to recruit graduate students to address some of society's most difficult problems, including poverty and climate change. |
| • TV watch. |
| The sitcom "black-ish" centers on a case involving an African-American teenager and suspected police brutality (9:30 p.m., ABC). |
| The promises and perils of the data revolution are investigated on "The Human Face of Big Data" (10 p.m., PBS, but check local listings). |
| • A prominent composer's inspiration. |
| Georg Friedrich Haas credits the dominant-submissive power dynamic of his marriage with increasing his productivity. |
| • For your table. |
| We have a recipe for roasted grapefruit to start the day, and one for crunchy baked potatoes with anchovy, Parmesan and rosemary for later. |
Back Story
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| Feb. 29 appears on the calendar this month, as this is a leap year. That got us wondering: How did we end up with this calendar and its periodic recalibrations? |
| While China and other countries recently celebrated Lunar New Year, and Iran is preparing for Nowruz on the first day of spring, most of the Western world abides by the Gregorian calendar. |
| Pope Gregory XIII issued a papal bull, or proclamation, outlining the new calendar on this day in 1582. It refined the Julian calendar that was in use at the time by synchronizing it more precisely with the Earth's rotation around the sun. |
| While the Gregorian calendar took the pope's name, its adoption was heavily influenced by Christopher Clavius, a German priest and astronomer, and Aloysius Lilius, an Italian doctor. |
| Like the Julian calendar, it ensured that every year divisible by four would be a leap year. But it added an exception: Years ending in two zeros would be a leap year only if divisible by 400. |
| This more sparing use of leap years lets the calendar resolve a discrepancy with the solar year in the Julian calendar. (That explains why Eastern Orthodox churches, which still observe the Julian calendar, celebrate Christmas in early January.) |
| Britain, along with its American colonies, adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752. Russia waited until 1918. |
| Even with the elaborate system of leap years, the calendar will still require another tweak. A day will need to be dropped in about 3,000 years. |
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