Super: Today is Super Tuesday, the day when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump can put the presidential nominations out of reach for their rivals. For the Democrats, 859 delegates are at stake in 11 states.

And it’s a critical day for Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz if they have any hope of stopping the Trump juggernaut.

It’s Political: Trump is thriving on controversy. Yesterday he taunted a protester demanding to know, “Are you from Mexico?”

Protesters and hecklers interrupted Trump speeches for two days in a row. Yesterday in Radford, Va., supporters angrily confronted the hecklers. Some of the protesters chanted “Black lives matter” while Trump and his crowd responded with “All lives matter.”

A photographer shooting for Time magazine was grabbed by the neck and thrown to the ground by a Secret Service Agent when he stepped out of the press pen to get a better shot of the protesters. The photographer, Christopher Morris, is a veteran war photographer, a respected shooter who has spent time on politics in recent years.

Earlier in the day Trump blamed a faulty earpiece for his failure to denounce the support of Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke during a weekend interview on CNN. Trump now says he couldn’t understand what anchor Jake Tapper was saying, although he didn’t mention it while he was on the air. Trump said on NBC’s Today show, “I’m sitting in a house in Florida with a very bad earpiece that they gave me, and you could hardly hear what he was saying, but what I heard was various groups.” He has since disavowed Klan support.

Uncas Speaks: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who almost never utters a word from the bench, asked a battery of questions yesterday for the first time in 10 years. The case was about domestic violence, gun convictions, and the suspension of civil rights. Thomas has explained that he’s shy about speaking in public. He clammed up again during the second case of the day.

Nation: President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to a member of Seal Team Six who threw his body over a hostage during a 2012 rescue in Afghanistan. Edward Byers is only the sixth SEAL in their history to be awarded the highest military honor. With bullets flying, Byers also fought two members of the Taliban by hand. Accepting the award Byers remembered another member of his team, Nic Checque, who was killed in the assault. “He died to bring back another American.”

World: Clashes erupted yesterday in the French port city of Calais when authorities tore down part of a migrant camp known as The Jungle. Migrants lit some shacks on fire and threw rocks at the riot police, who responded with teargas and water cannon.

The government is trying to relocate the migrants, who fear they will just be warehoused and prevented from establishing a new life.

Big Turnoff: Sunday night’s Academy Awards show on ABC had the lowest viewership in eight years, and the third lowest since the 1970s. Despite calls for a boycott of the all white award nominations according to the Nielsen ratings company, viewership was about even with last year, but then slid as the speeches and presentations focused on racial diversity, sexual assault, climate change, and gay rights. Nielsen didn’t seem to take into account that it was also a deadly dull show.

The Obit Page, Craig Windham, a familiar voice to longtime listeners of National Public Radio, died suddenly Sunday night of a pulmonary embolism. He was 66. Windham joined NPR in 1995 and was the morning news anchor. He had anchored as recently as Friday.

>George Kennedy, the beefy and tough but appealing actor who won an Oscar as the sadistic prisoner who befriended Paul Newman in the 1967 “Cool Hand Luke,” has died at age 91. Kennedy often played the heavy in a long career, but he developed a whole second persona as a comedian playing a dimwit police captain in the Naked Gun series of movies.

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