Good evening. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
India launched attacks against PakistanIndia said that it had conducted strikes on Pakistan, two weeks after armed militants killed more than two dozen civilians in Indian-administered Kashmir. The Indian government, which had suggested Pakistani involvement in the terrorist attack, said its forces struck nine sites in Pakistan and on Pakistan’s side of the disputed Kashmir region. India said the strikes were “focused, measured, and nonescalatory in nature,” and that Pakistani military facilities were not targeted. This is a developing story. Pakistan, which confirmed five strikes, said in a statement that the attacks “will not go unanswered,” and military officials said they had begun a “measured but forceful” response. The two countries, both nuclear-armed, have fought several wars over Kashmir, a region that they share but that each claims in whole. Here’s what to know about the latest clash.
Justices allowed Trump to enforce a transgender troop banThe Supreme Court ruled today that the Trump administration could enforce its ban on transgender troops while legal challenges to the policy move forward. Lower courts had blocked the ban, saying it was not supported by evidence and violated equal protection principles. The ruling was unsigned and it offered no reasoning, which is typical when the court acts on emergency applications. All three of the court’s liberal justices dissented. The Pentagon began enforcing a ban on transgender troops in February, but federal judges in Washington State and Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked the policy after service members sued. According to military officials, about 4,200 service members, or roughly 0.2 percent of the military, are transgender. In related news: Fencing is the latest sport caught in the transgender athlete debate.
Carney told Trump that Canada was ‘not for sale’Prime Minister Mark Carney sat down today with President Trump in the Oval Office for their first face-to-face meeting since Carney won his federal election last month on an anti-Trump platform. Carney had one key goal: to say that Canada is not going to become the 51st state while avoiding a public fight. On that, he succeeded, my colleagues Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Tyler Pager reported from Washington. Carney spoke just three times over the course of a half-hour in front of the cameras. Carney said Canada “won’t be for sale, ever,” to which Trump replied, “Never say never.” But the meeting was otherwise cordial. Trump said he had “a lot of respect” for Carney. The Canadian leader applauded Trump for his “relentless focus on the American worker.”
Big law firms are turning down pro bono immigration casesFearing Trump’s wrath, some elite law firms are declining pro bono work on lawsuits challenging the administration’s policies. For example, Gibson Dunn — which has neither made a deal with the president nor been the subject of a threatening executive order — declined to put its name on a recent immigration lawsuit. It is a drastic change from Trump’s first term, when many big law firms frequently challenged the administration. More top news
Broadway’s new Elphaba is making historyWhen Lencia Kebede made her Broadway debut this year in “Wicked,” she became the first Black woman to play the starring role of Elphaba full time in a show she said she had “idolized” her entire life. We talked to Kebede about what it was like to take over a dream role for eight shows a week. “I was reminded that no matter what I felt throughout this process, one of my green sisters had felt it before,” she said. “It’s a special, secret club.”
Advice from a longevity expertResearch has found that genes don’t necessarily determine who among us is able to remain healthy late into life. So we asked Eric Topol, the cardiologist and scientist whose new book about longevity is out today, to explain what we can do to increase our odds of aging well. One tip: scheduling your sleep. During the course of writing the book, Topol told us, he increased his deep sleep from 15 minutes to almost an hour per night. For more: The Times’s first health and wellness conference is tomorrow. Sign up for a livestream link.
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