News Now Forever: Your Thursday Briefing: EgyptAir, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump

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Here’s what you need to know:

• EgyptAir flight vanishes.

A search is underway for a passenger jet that disappeared shortly after entering Egyptian airspace over the Mediterranean this morning while flying to Cairo from Paris with 66 people aboard.

The missing flight has touched off fears about terrorism. Check back with us for the latest updates.

• Divided Democrats.

Bernie Sanders is sharpening his criticism of the party and of Hillary Clinton, and Democrats are preparing for a drawn-out fight through the convention. Party leaders have rebuked Mr. Sanders for not clearly condemning a revolt by his supporters at Nevada’s convention.

Donald J. Trump is borrowing from Mr. Sanders’s playbook to court Democrats. Mr. Trump’s financial picture is now clearer, but the form he recently released was too limited to verify his claim that he is worth more than $10 billion.

House Republicans on the Benghazi committee appear likely to issue a report around the time of the conventions, or Election Day, to inflict the most damage on Mrs. Clinton.

• A push for consensus.

The Supreme Court has appeared more diminished than deadlocked since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, our correspondent writes. And a study shows that lawyers appointed by the court are mostly white and male.

Separately, Mr. Trump released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court nominees that included several who are favorites of conservative legal scholars.

• California lifts water restrictions.

Communities will set their own conservation standards under the new rules, which follow a relatively wet winter and savings in urban water use.

Officials say that conditions have improved enough that the drastic measures are no longer needed.

• Venezuela’s public-health emergency.

The country’s economic crisis has led to a crisis in hospitals: Supplies are lacking, electricity goes out, equipment is broken and patients lie in pools of blood.

• The bathroom debate.

High school students shared with us their feelings — ranging from anger to joy — about the White House directive allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice.

At a school in Vermont, the debate turned personal. Researchers say they’re unsure how many transgender adolescents there are nationwide, but the best estimate is that they make up under 1 percent of the total.

Business

• Fiat Chrysler is recalling half a million 2007-10 Jeep Wranglers over an airbag malfunction.

• The Federal Reserve is thinking seriously about raising its benchmark interest rate at its meeting next month.

• The Netflix drama “House of Cards” leveled the pay disparity between its co-stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright after she took a hard line.

• U.S. stocks finished basically even on Wednesday.

Noteworthy

• Kidnap victim goes home.

A Nigerian schoolgirl who was taken during a mass kidnapping by Boko Haram more than two years ago has been found.

She is the first girl to be recovered since soon after the abduction, and it gives hope to the families of more than 200 teenagers from the same school who remain missing. But not all victims are welcomed back.

• Adding to dog years.

A drug that lengthened the lives of mice is being tested on dogs, as scientists look for a way to delay the onset of diseases that come with age.

An animal-rights group has had success offering South Korean farmers money to let their dogs be adopted as pets abroad instead of being eaten.

• Scoreboard.

Golden State evened its series with Oklahoma City with a 118-91 victory on Wednesday. Tonight, Toronto is at Cleveland (8:30 p.m. Eastern, ESPN).

Pittsburgh beat Tampa Bay, 4-2, to take a lead in their series. St. Louis is at San Jose (9 p.m., NBCSN).

• In case you missed it …

Jamala, who represented Ukraine, won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with her politically charged song “1944,” and Germany’s beer purity law is turning 500 years old.

Steven Spielberg spoke with us from the Cannes Film Festival about “The BFG,” his latest film, which is based on a Roald Dahl book. And one scientist is dreaming of training a marathoner to break the two-hour barrier.

• Gem of a sale.

The “Oppenheimer Blue” diamond was bought for more than $58 million, becoming the most expensive diamond ever sold at auction.

• Recipe of the day.

Try this queso with an Asian spin the next time you have guests over, and learn how to cure meat at home.

Back Story

Even when a presidential candidate quits, the campaigning goes on.

The tradition of “debt retirement” dinners, where candidates raise money for their unpaid bills, continues tonight when Donald J. Trump appears at a fund-raiser for Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, a former rival.

Campaign debt can linger for years. In a gesture of party unity, the Democratic National Committee agreed to assume $9.3 million in debt amassed by Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey during the 1968 campaign. It took until 1982 to pay it off.

In another extreme case, Senator John Glenn ended his 1984 Democratic bid with nearly $3 million in debt, and he struggled for more than 20 years to pay it off until the Federal Election Commission issued him a reprieve.

Winning candidates will often help out their former rivals. In 1980, Ronald Reagan held a series of dinners for six of the men he defeated in the primaries. President Jimmy Carter helped out Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and Barack Obama helped Hillary Clinton.

Last year, President Obama and the D.N.C. created a fund-raising committee to help pay his debt. Weeks later, he was still helping to pay it off at a special showing of “Hamilton.”

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