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Cyberattack crackdown The United States

charged two Chinese nationals in major

cryptocurrency laundering operations linked

to North Korea. A

Conversion therapy ban Virginia’s governor

signed a bill prohibiting the practice for

minors, the first state in the South to do so. B

HealtH & scIence

Hormone therapy

shunned for a possible

breast cancer link, its use

to deal with menopause

is now seen as safe. e

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an abrupt exit

l ongtime “Hardball” host

Chris matthews resigned

from the program. c

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tHe natIon

maine voters will decide

whether to override a law

on vaccine exemptions for

schoolchildren. A

texas Democrats bol-

stered by 2018’s legisla-

tive wins and a growing

minority population be-

lieve they can flip the re-

liably red state. A

tHe world

Indian Prime Minister

Narendra Modi’s party

was accused of pursuing

polarization between

Hindus and Muslims,

sparking violence. A

u.S. military leaders

cautioned that even

with a Taliban pact, vio-

lence in Afghanistan

won’t totally end. A

ahead of the U.S.-U.K.

trade talks, Britain’s

government revealed

that even a super deal

won’t be worth much

money to either side. A

tHe regIon

a D.c. teen was fatally

shot in Shaw days be-

fore his 14th birthday. B

Small-business owners

told Maryland lawmak-

ers that a proposed tax

on services would hurt

the state’s economy. B

obItuarIes

James Lipton, 93 ,

hosted the TV program

“Inside the Actors Stu-

dio.” B

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tics. official results being tabu-

lated overnight could hand his

coalition an outright victory —

or leave it even further out of

reach.

With Israelis voting in nation-

al elections for the third time in

less than year, the unexpectedly

strong performance was a victory

for netanyahu, who had failed to

wrest a governing majority in the

past two votes and was indicted

in november on charges of brib-

ery, fraud and abuse of trust. His

corruption trial is scheduled to

start later this month.

“This is a night of great victo-

ry,” netanyahu said to jubilant

supporters. “We won against all

odds. They eulogized us, but we

prevailed. We made lemons into

lemonade.”

The exit poll results came as a

jarring disappointment to netan-

see ISraEL on a

BY STEVE HENDRIX

AND RUTH EGLASH

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime

Minister Benjamin netanyahu

vaulted ahead of his main chal-

lenger in national elections Mon-

day, according to exit polls, with

the strong showing by his Likud

party b ringing him to the brink of

a parliamentary majority.

But the poll results put netan-

yahu’s right-wing bloc two seats

shy of achieving that governing

majority in the 120-seat parlia-

ment, o r Knesset, and b reaking a

year-long impasse in Israeli poli-

Netanyahu comeback

shy of outright majority

Exit polls s how Israeli

leader in b etter position

to form government

BY ROBERT BARNES

The supreme Court on Mon-

day said it will review the latest

Republican efforts to doom the

Affordable Care Act, guarantee-

ing that partisan battles over

health care will remain at the

forefront of public debate in the

closing weeks of the presidential

campaign.

The justices will review a fed-

eral appeals court decision that

found part of the l aw, also known

as obamacare, unconstitutional

and raised questions about

whether the law in its entirety

must fall. The Trump adminis-

tration agreed with the lower

court’s decision but said it was

premature for the court to join

the legal fight now.

Democrats seemed delighted

that the court had decided to

ignore that advice. They said the

focus on health care will help

their candidates, as polls show it

did i n 2018 w hen Democrats won

back the House majority, and

increase the importance of the

supreme Court with their voters.

“Today’s supreme Court an-

nouncement ensures health care

will remain front and center

throughout 2020 and that House

Republicans won’t be able to

hide from their long history of

attacking Americans with preex-

isting conditions,” said Robyn

Patterson of the Democratic C on-

gressional Campaign Commit-

see court on a

Justices’ r eview keeps

ACA in political spotlight

In next term, high court

to consider efforts

to undo health-care law

BY SEAN SULLIVAN

AND ROBERT COSTA

TACOMA, WASh. — About 17,

people packed into a concert and

sports arena at the center of this

port city, pulsating with excite-

ment and anger. They were there

to see Bernie sanders, whose

rebellious presidential campaign

has been bringing people in by

the thousands for months.

onstage, a city council mem-

ber gave a speech urging a “pow-

erful socialist movement to end

them, “we’re going to defeat the

radical socialist Democrats.” He

called the crowd “amazing peo-

ple” and declared, “Under my

administration, we’re finally tak-

ing care of our own citizens first.”

Four years after Trump seized

control of the Republican Party

with a right-wing populist move-

ment, a new populist crusade has

risen on the left, fueled similarly

by grievance and anxiety and

powered by sanders’s remarkable

drive to dispatch Trump from the

White House.

each is motivated by a disdain

for elites they perceive as having

flourished while other Americans

suffered, a rejection of the estab-

lishment and the figures who

have controlled it, and a con-

tempt for the institutions that

see PoPuLISm on a

all capitalist oppression.” An ac-

tor accused the news media of

slanted coverage. In the crowd,

one sanders supporter hoisted a

sign that read: “obi-Wan Bernobi

— He’s our only hope.” Another

wore a jumpsuit festooned with

pictures of sanders. A third

screamed the names of large cor-

porations and declared, “You’re

next!”

A few days later, thousands

gathered at t he convention center

in Las Vegas to express their

ardor for President Trump, wav-

ing signs, snapping photos and

pumping their fists passionately

as he took the stage. In return, he

expressed his devotion to the

Americans who helped elect him

in 2016, the ones he claimed

everyone else had forgotten.

“With your help,” Trump told

Populist pair rewrite the playbooks

Trump and Sanders tap

a deep vein of anger even

as villains and goals differ

super tuesday

fourteen states, a merican samoa

and democrats abroad v ote in the

presidential primary. Poll closures

are listed in eastern time.

statedelegates closing

Vermont 16 7 p.m.

Virginia 99 7 p.m.

north Carolina 110 7:30 p.m.

alabama 52 8 p.m.

maine 24 8 p.m.

massachusetts 91 8 p.m.

oklahoma 37 8 p.m.

te nnessee 64 8 p.m.

te xas* 228 8 p.m.

arkansas 31 8:30 p.m.

Colorado 67 9 p.m.

minnesota 75 9 p.m.

utah 29 10 p.m.

California 415 11 p.m.

*Some T exas polls close at 9 p.m.

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BY MARIA SACCHETTI,

ARELIS R. HERNÁNDEZ,

SIOBHÁN O’GRADY

AND WILLIAM WAN

SEATTLE — The U.s. death toll
from the coronavirus rose to six
on Monday, and patients were
being treated in at least 15 states,
deepening fears about the out-
break’s r apid spread and the med-
ical, psychological and economic
toll it will exact on the United
states.
Four deaths announced Mon-
day and two others this weekend
all occurred in Washington state,
the center of the nation’s most
serious outbreak. eight of the
state’s 18 cases, as well as four of
the deaths, are linked to the Life
Care Center nursing home in
Kirkland, Wash., and at least 50
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Six dead

in U.S. as

outbreak

spreads

Patients t reated in 15

states; fears deepen over

medical, economic toll

BY GERRY SHIH

BEIJING — In the remote sub-
tropical hills of southwest China,
80 miles from the Laotian border
and 1,200 miles from the heart of
the coronavirus outbreak in Wu-
han, Yao To nghua is facing a
serious cash crunch.
Yao borrowed heavily two
months ago to put down $10,
for a five-story building she
hoped would become a palace of
sichuan cooking. Then came the
epidemic. Her seven cooks now
lounge around empty tables
meant for 100 diners. Vegetables
rot in the yard. Fish bob inside
tanks, neglected.
“I thought the disease was con-
fined to Wuhan and would have
little impact on a small and far-
flung city like ours,” s aid Yao, who
is contemplating laying everyone
off and selling the restaurant to
stem mounting losses but is wor-
ried she wouldn’t find a buyer.
see cHIna on a

Smallest

businesses

suffering

in China

Eateries sit empty amid

virus outbreak, posing

risk to wider economy

the lure of super tuesday

1,357 delegates are up for grabs as

14 states and a territory vote. a

a crucial pillar unmoved

buttigieg’s appeals to inclusion

failed to convince black voters. a

panic sparks u.s. buying frenzy
disinfectant, water and toilet paper
are flying off store shelves. a

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Jack Welch, once dubbed

America’s “manager of the

century,” died Sunday at 84. The

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BY MATT VISER

A parade of establishment

Democrats began coalescing

around Joe Biden on Monday, an

attempt to bolster the former vice

president and stall sen. Bernie

sanders’s ascent as voters in

14 states prepared to cast ballots

Tuesday, the most consequential

day of the presidential nominat-

ing contest.

on a day with cascading d evel-

opments that rapidly recast the

presidential race, sen. Amy

Klobuchar (Minn.) dropped out

and r ushed to join Biden at his

rally in Dallas on Monday night.

In a visual symbol of Biden’s

attempts to consolidate the mod-

erates in the party, former south

Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg

— who dropped out sunday

night and who had an intensely

frosty relationship with Klobu-

char — also scrambled to get to

Te xas and endorse Biden.

“We need a politics that’s about

decency, a politics that brings

back dignity. That’s what Joe

Biden has been practicing his

entire life,” Buttigieg said at a

restaurant in Dallas, ahead of the

rally where Klobuchar declared:

see camPaIgn on a

Former

rivals

endorse

Biden

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offer their support

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Pete Buttigieg, who dropped out of the Democratic presidential race Sunday, endorses former vice president Joe Biden at an event in Dallas.

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