| • Health care law on trial. |
| Billions of dollars of federal subsidies are at issue in King v. Burwell, a challenge to President Obama’s health care law that will be argued today at the Supreme Court. A decision is expected in June. |
| If the Supreme Court rules against the administration, millions of low- and moderate-income Americans in as many as 37 states, mostly run by Republican governors, would have their subsidies cut off. |
| • A steeper Iran challenge. |
| President Obama faces a tougher task persuading lawmakers to support him after Israel’s prime minister warned Congress on Tuesday against making a deal on Iran’s nuclear program. |
| Secretary of State John Kerry presses ahead today with negotiations with Iran in Switzerland. |
| Then he heads to Saudi Arabia to assure officials of Persian Gulf countries that a deal would not lead to regional instability. |
| • Opening statements in Boston. |
| The federal death-penalty trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is charged in connection with the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and injured over 260, begins today and is expected to last three to four months. |
| Ten women and eight men are on the jury hearing the case. We will have live coverage of the proceedings. |
| • The hidden emails. |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a personal email account for government business shielded a significant amount of her correspondence from the eyes of investigators and the public. |
| Democratic Party officials will have to decide whether to defend what is apparently a rule violation or raise questions to show their independence. |
| • Defying a federal court order. |
| The Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday night ordered probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. |
| A constitutional law professor said Alabama’s probate judges could choose to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court on an emergency basis. |
| • Stark racial divide in Ferguson, Mo. |
| The Ferguson Police Department routinely violated the constitutional rights of its black residents, according to a Justice Department report to be released today. |
| Crime statistics compiled in the city over the past two years seemed to suggest that only blacks were breaking the law, the report shows. |
| • Not again. |
| The National Weather Service says a storm system is moving into the Northeast and mid-Atlantic today. |
| It will also extend into Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, southern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are down. European shares are mixed, while Asian indexes ended mostly lower. |
| • NBCUniversal is trying to lure back its former news chief, Andrew Lack, to contain management missteps after the Brian Williams crisis. |
| • Toyota today promoted foreigners to senior posts, including the first female and black executives, diversifying a management team dominated by Japanese men. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Heroin’s death rate. |
| Heroin-related deaths are up drastically in the U.S., to 8,257 in 2013 from about 3,000 in 2010, a report today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. |
| The death rate from overdoses is highest among whites, those under 45 and those in the Midwest. |
| In 2000, heroin fatalities were highest among older blacks, and the West and Northeast had the biggest problems. |
| • A Yankee returns to the diamond. |
| The Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez is expected to suit up in a game today against the Philadelphia Phillies in Tampa (1 p.m. Eastern, MLB). |
| It would be his first game after a one-year ban from baseball, a record suspension for using performance-enhancing drugs. |
| • Four days for four pages. |
| On the 150th anniversary of its delivery, President Abraham Lincoln’s handwritten Second Inaugural Address is on display at the Library of Congress in Washington from today until Saturday. |
| The roughly 700-word address, considered one of his most memorable speeches, is famous for its phrase “with malice toward none, with charity for all.” He was urging leniency for the South even before the Civil War ended. |
| • TV around the world. |
| The late-night host Conan O’Brien replaces his desk today with a cafe table in Havana (11 p.m. Eastern, TBS). It’s the first late-night show to be broadcast from Cuba since Jack Paar’s in 1959. |
| And “CSI: Cyber,” the latest “Crime Scene Investigation” spinoff, debuts today (10 p.m. Eastern, CBS). The crimes are mostly electronic and over the Internet, of course. |
| • Those with mighty pens. |
| The Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers awards for fiction and nonfiction are announced today. The winners get a $10,000 prize, but more important, a full year of promotion by the bookseller. |
| And the Story Prize ($20,000 for first place) for short-story collections will go today to one of three finalists: “The Other Language” by Francesca Marciano, “Thunderstruck” by Elizabeth McCracken and “Bark” by Lorrie Moore. |
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