Its the biggest election day of the year so far. Welcome to cnns Special Coverage of super tuesday im wolf blitzer in washington and im kate bolduan in new york. The first polls are closing in just a few hours from now. And turnout in states like North Carolina is strong as millions of americans and six next extreme states are now voting for republicans. It is a big day, 865 delegates are at stake. Donald trump expected to win most of them making the republican front runner almost unstoppable potentially. By the end of this light tonight, trump is expected to be within striking distance of the 1,215 delegates needed to win the republican president ial nomination, which raises the big question, what does nikki haley do next . Our less than an hour will be getting our first early clues about the outcome of tonights vote. Thats where we get the first results from our exit polls. We have our reporters fanned out across the nation right now is better. Voters are heading to the polls. I want
the biden administration approves a controversial oil drilling project in alaska despite fierce opposition from environmentalists no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. the money would come from the fees the bank pays in the deposit insurance fund. junior doctors in england begin three days of strike action in their dispute over pay and conditions and at the academy awards, one film wins almost everything all at once, including best actress the uk s prime minister rishi sunak says china represents a challenge to world order, as it has fundamentally different values. the remark has come ahead of major talks on a defence agreemtment between the us, uk and australia, due to get under way in san diego shortly. here are pictures of president biden that move is seen as an attempt to counter chinese military power in the indo pacfic region. the discussions come as the uk also way in san diego shortly. here are pictures of president biden leaving andrews airbase for those
one special counsel jack smith brought regarding the lead-up to and the after math of january 6th. today in federal court, we heard both lawyers for the special counsel and donald trump square off over the limited gag order judge tanya chutkan imposed a couple of weeks ago. we ll play the audio in a second. first, quick context. the gag order stops donald trump from publicly disparaging prosecutors, potential witnesses or court employees involved in the case. jack smith s team wants it saying it s necessary to keep people safe. donald trump s team is appealing it saying it violates his free speech and ability to campaign. and while the d.c. circuit court of appeals has yet to rule, we did get come hints. take this exchange, where judge millet presses donald trump s team on whether their arguments that it s unconstitutional to limit the political speech of a candidate would stand if donald trump were not running for office. would your position be a different a year ago? i
theo leggett reports. an unexpected crisis, a hurried solution and the owners of businesses like this one are breathing a heavy sigh of relief. universal quantum s trying to develop a revolutionary new generation of supercomputers. like many small tech firms, it s a customer of the uk arm of american lender silicon valley bank, which collapsed last week. boss sebastian weidt says he feared his money would be lost for good. we have a lot of our capita with svb, and obviously when the news broke that well, we heard on the grapevine that svb may be in trouble, we obviously tried to get our funds out as quickly as possible. that was unsuccessful, so over the weekend we really had to scramble to put mitigating strategies in place, to survive as a company. for the government, this crisis came out of the blue. the sudden collapse of a bank in the united states left thousands of british technology businesses facing potential oblivion. a solution had to be found and it had to be found quickly
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