Antonin Scalia's funeral reflects the justice's life of faith and other top stories.

• Antonin Scalia's funeral reflects the justice's life of faith

  

  If the week since Justice Antonin Scalia’s death has focused on his life as a man of the law, his funeral Saturday will reflect Scalia as a man of faith. Vice President Biden, congressional leaders and the city’s elite are among the thousands who are attending the ceremony in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the largest Catholic church in North America. But despite the grand setting, the ceremony is largely free of the encomiums that mark the send-offs of Washin..

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• Is this it for Jeb Bush?

  

  As South Carolina Republicans head to the polls for Saturday's primary, the Post's Ed O'Keefe walks us through a year of covering Jeb Bush's candidacy. (Dalton Bennett/The Washington Post) CENTRAL, S.C. — Jeb Bush has been fighting all week to dismiss talk of his demise. But his final South Carolina campaign event here felt bittersweet on Friday night. Staffers and volunteers hugged warmly, realizing that they had just one more day to convince Republicans to pick their guy. The hugs came a..

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• Braden Holtby's numbers have dipped slightly

  

  (Toni L. Sandys/ The Washington Post) Not every game has to be a shutout for Washington Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby, but he approaches each one wanting to first and foremost record a win and then to also not allow more than two goals in the process. Not every goal against him is the same, and Holtby can live with the ones that he couldn’t do anything to stop. Criticizing him seems blasphemous, as he’s been the best player on a historically good team, is on pace to break Martin Brodeur..

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• Markieff Morris arrives, plays and helps the Wizards stay hot

  

  Randy Wittman walked over to the two unfamiliar people standing with his new player in the hallway between the Washington Wizards’ locker room and the court at Verizon Center on Friday evening and shook their hands. “Welcome,” the Wizards coach said, greeting Markieff Morris’s mother, Angel, and a family friend. A few minutes earlier, Morris’s twin brother, Marcus, had strolled through an adjacent hallway to the visitors’ locker room to suit up for Detroit. By Thursday’s 3 p.m. trade deadline,..

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