This one thing could hurt Apple's case in Washington and other top stories.

• This one thing could hurt Apple's case in Washington

  (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) Apple's fight with the FBI is widening beyond the courts. The company now wants to lay the debate before Congress, where new legislation could help keep the government at bay as it tries to gain access to a phone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. But the tech company's odds may be hindered due to a strategic choice that stretches back years, lobbyists and former congressional staffers say. Here's why. Apple’s lobbying presence in Washington is tiny compare..

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• Mizzou professor who pushed reporter away from protesters is fired

  

  Melissa Click, a mass media professor at the University of Missouri, is seen pushing a student journalist's camera and asking "for some muscle" during demonstrations on campus on Nov. 9, 2015. (Youtube/Mark Schierbecker) Melissa Click, a professor who gained national notoriety during the protests at the University of Missouri, has been fired. Click made headlines when a video of her pushing a reporter away from protesters went viral; she could be heard calling for “muscle” to toss out repo..

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• Sandoval bows out of Supreme Court consideration

  

  Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval released a statement on Thursday taking himself out of Supreme Court contention. (Lance Iversen/AP Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) announced Thursday he was withdrawing his name from consideration as a possible Supreme Court nominee, just one day after it became public the White House was weighing whether to select him. “Earlier today, I notified the White House that I do not wish to be considered at this time for possible nomination to the Supreme Court of the..

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• Ted Cruz leads Donald Trump by 15 points in Texas: Poll

  

  Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is leading 2016 GOP presidential rival Donald Trump by 15 points in the senator’s home state, according to a poll released Thursday just days ahead of Super Tuesday.Mr. Cruz was at 38 percent support among likely Republican primary voters in Texas, with Mr. Trump at 23 percent and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida at 21 percent, according to the survey from Monmouth University conducted from Monday to Wednesday.Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was at 6 percent and Ohio Gov. John ..

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• Haunted by cannibalism: 'I will never forget that first incision'

  

  A man throws a handful of earth over the common grave of 29 victims of the plane that crashed in the Andes in 1972. (AP file) Four young men — freezing cold, starving and struggling to survive following a plane crash — stood over their dead friend, armed with razor blades and broken glass. They cut their friend’s clothes. Then, his body. “I will never forget that first incision nine days after the crash,” Roberto Canessa recalls in his new book, “I Had to Survive.” “We laid the thin strips o..

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