Today's Headlines: Trump's New Travel Ban Blocks Migrants From Six Nations, Sparing Iraq

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[The House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, last week during a news conference.]( [House Republicans Unveil Plan to Replace Health Law]( By ROBERT PEAR and THOMAS KAPLAN The plan scraps the mandate for most Americans to have health insurance in favor of a new system of tax credits to induce people to buy insurance on the open market. [The Supreme Court vacated an appeals court decision in favor of a transgender boy, Gavin Grimm, and sent the case back for further consideration in light of new guidance from the Trump administration.]( [Supreme Court Won't Hear Major Case on Transgender Rights]( By ADAM LIPTAK The justices vacated an appeals court decision in favor of a transgender boy, Gavin Grimm, and sent the case back for further consideration. For more top news, go to [NYTimes.com »]( [Get the Morning Briefing in Your Inbox]( What you need to know to start your day, delivered Monday through Friday. [Sign up »]( ADVERTISEMENT Editors' Picks [President Trump and the former President Barack Obama, who were cordial at the inauguration in January, have since publicly criticized each other.]( U.S. [Trump's Wiretapping Claims Puncture Veneer of Presidential Civility]( By PETER BAKER After a cordial transfer of power, President Trump and former President Barack Obama have publicly criticized each other to an unusual degree. [Trump supporters at a rally in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday.]( OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor [The Hard Truth About Refugees]( By JAMES TRAUB Refugees bring with them problems that liberals would do well to recognize. Failing to do so opens the political door to right-wing xenophobes. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "When I was in Iraq, I always carried a can of black spray paint to cover up what was written about me in the port-a-johns." [KATE HENDRICKS THOMAS]( a Marine Corps veteran, on the challenges women face in the military. An online group has shared naked photos of female Marines on a closed page. [] Today's Videos [[Video] Video: You Have Just Sued the President]( A group of Yale law school students was following a familiar path when they helped launch a lawsuit against President Trump's travel ban – a ban that has now been revised after facing legal challenges. [Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson spoke in Washington on Monday.]( [[Video] Video: Carson Calls Slaves "Immigrants"]( Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson made the comment during a speech to department employees Monday. [.][Ben Carson Refers to Slaves as 'Immigrants' in First Remarks to HUD Staff]( [Traffic on Eighth Avenue near Madison Square Garden. Ride-hailing apps are drawing passengers from public transit.]( [[Video] Video: Ride-Hailing Apps Are Booming]( Uber and other ride-hailing apps are transforming transportation in New York City, and challenging the city's financial dependency on it. [.][The Downside of Ride-Hailing: More New York City Gridlock]( [] World [Thaad vehicles at Yongsan Garrison, the headquarters of American forces in South Korea, in a photograph provided by the United States military.]( [U.S. Starts Deploying Thaad Antimissile System in South Korea, After North's Tests]( By GERRY MULLANY and MICHAEL R. GORDON China has been incensed over the deployment of the system, which it regards as an intrusion that could compromise its military capabilities. [Zulala Hashemi, 16, performing during ]( Kabul Journal [A Rapping Barber, a Defiant Teenager and a Release for War-Weary Afghans]( By MUJIB MASHAL Amid an escalating war in a conservative culture, the unlikely stars on an Afghan singing competition face life-threatening risks and societal pressures. [Prime Minister Binali Yildirim of Turkey last month in Oberhausen, Germany, at a rally to promote support for the constitutional referendum on expanding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's powers.]( [Turkish Referendum Has Country Trading Barbs With Germany Over Free Speech]( By ALISON SMALE and PATRICK KINGSLEY With the referendum on a knife-edge, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and members of his party are desperate to campaign in Germany among the 1.5 million Turks who are eligible to vote. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [Female Marines during training at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina in 2013. The Marine Corps has the smallest proportion of women of all the services and also the highest rate of sexual assault reports.]( [Inquiry Opens Into How 30,000 Marines Shared Illicit Images of Female Peers]( By DAVE PHILIPPS A secret all-male group is being investigated after revelations that it had shared thousands of naked and private photos of Marine Corps women. [Miguel Angel Peña Rodriguez was convicted of three misdemeanors in a case in which a juror was said to have declared in the deliberations, ]( [Jury Secrecy Doesn't Apply if Bias Taints Deliberations, Justices Rule]( By ADAM LIPTAK Jury discussions should not remain private if evidence emerges that they were affected by racial or ethnic bias, the Supreme Court ruled. [Police and protesters clashed at Texas A&M University when Richard Spencer, a white nationalist leader, spoke there in December.]( [White Supremacists Step Up Recruiting on Campus, Report Says]( By TAMARA BEST Hate groups have increased their presence through visits, rallies, speeches and fliers, the Anti-Defamation League says. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [Wilbur L. Ross at a Senate confirmation hearing in January. ]( [New Commerce Secretary Was No Friend to Russians at Cyprus Bank]( By ANDREW HIGGINS Wilbur Ross's interactions with Russians at the Bank of Cyprus, where he was vice chairman, suggest he was more interested in forcing them out than working with them. [Abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion campaigners outside a Planned Parenthood center in Lower Manhattan last month.]( [Trump Tells Planned Parenthood Its Funding Can Stay if Abortion Goes]( By MAGGIE HABERMAN The proposal has been rejected by Planned Parenthood, which receives about $500 million annually in federal funding but does not use that money for abortion services. [The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, in February.]( [White House Rejects Comey's Assertion That Wiretapping Claim Is False]( By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT The president could be headed for a confrontation with the director of the F.B.I., which is conducting an investigation into links between Mr. Trump's associates and Russia. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [Donald J. Trump, the president elect at the time, with the Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, left, at Trump Tower in December.]( [Trump Embraces $50 Billion Investment, but Is It Worth the Saudi Ties?]( By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Vision Fund could be described as a front for Saudi Arabia, and a contradiction to President Trump's nationalistic rhetoric. [A Vauxhall Vivaro truck on the production line at a plant in England in 2013. The British prime minister emphasized the need to protect the country's plants and the homegrown brand.]( [Peugeot Maker's Deal for G.M.'s Opel Faces Political Headwinds]( By JACK EWING The possibility of job cuts and factory closures in Europe could spark nationalist appeals. [A prototype West Elm hotel room. West Elm, the furniture and accessories retailer, plans to open hotels in five cities beginning next year.]( Itineraries [Familiar Names at the Store Want You to Stay With Them, Too]( By AMY ZIPKIN With purveyors of luxury goods in the lead, retailers are entering the hotel business as one more way to market their wares. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center with flowers, and his wife Emine Erdogan, also holding flowers, at a rally with supporters in Istanbul. Turkey is investigating whether Google has violated its antitrust laws. Mr. Erdogan has repeatedly blocked Google, YouTube and other websites because he feared they were fomenting dissent.]( [Turkey to Investigate Antitrust Complaint Against Google]( By MARK SCOTT The country's competition authority will look at whether the search giant unfairly promotes its own digital services on Android over those of rivals. [A gender-neutral public restroom sign in West Hollywood, Calif. Yelp will soon offer an option to let users filter searches for establishments with gender-neutral bathrooms.]( [Yelp Starts Tracking Gender-Neutral Bathrooms for Transgender Users]( By NIRAJ CHOKSHI The company may ultimately be able to assemble the largest directory of transgender-friendly bathrooms, but it is not the first to try. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [Nat Holman was lifted by his players after City College of New York defeated Bradley in the N.C.A.A. title game at Madison Square Garden on March 28, 1950, days after his team won the National Invitation Tournament.]( [New York City Is Recapturing Its College Basketball Heyday]( By MARC TRACY The city will host the Big East tournament and the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, with the N.C.A.A. tournament following them into town. [Members of Team Israel removed their caps and put on their yarmulkes for the national anthem on Monday. Israel won its World Baseball Classic tournament debut by beating South Korea, 2-1.]( [With Mirth and a Mensch, Israel Upsets South Korea in W.B.C.]( By KEN BELSON Lacking the firepower of other teams in the World Baseball Classic, Israel shocked the hosts, South Korea, 2-1, in extra innings. [Yulieski Gurriel, right, with Fidel Castro, then the president of Cuba, in 2006. Ten years later, Gurriel and a brother defected.]( On Baseball [Cuba's Yulieski Gurriel, Loyal to His Homeland, Pays a Price to Follow His Ambition]( By TYLER KEPNER While many of his peers defected, Gurriel chose to stay. When he finally did the same to pursue a big league career, he gave up playing for Team Cuba at the World Baseball Classic. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Ed Sheeran at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles last month.]( [Review: Ed Sheeran's Secret Weapon on 'Divide'? Being Unabashedly Uncool]( By JON CARAMANICA Mr. Sheeran's new album isn't a statement of stylistic freedom or experimentation, but an assault on the pop charts from a performer skilled in musical osmosis. [Joan Didion]( Books of The Times [Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion's 'South and West']( By MICHIKO KAKUTANI Containing two excerpts from her notebooks dating to the 1970s, this book uncannily sheds light on some of the divisions splintering America today. [Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, married K.G.B. agents posing as Americans in suburban Virginia during the Reagan era.]( [Review: 'The Americans' History Suddenly Feels Less Retro]( By JAMES PONIEWOZIK In light of today's headlines, this Cold War drama on FX feels newly relevant - but also almost comfortingly small-scale. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] Science [Blue-footed boobies during a courtship dance.]( Basics [On Galápagos, Revealing the Blue-Footed Booby's True Colors]( By NATALIE ANGIER With no real predators, the birds live proud, public lives. That accessibility has proved a bonanza for scientists, casting light on their mating habits and even why the shade of their feet matters. [Thousands of academics, librarians, coders and science-minded citizens have gathered at ]( [Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data - If They Can Find It]( By AMY HARMON The Trump administration has begun changing some government websites. A group of concerned citizens has been working to preserve data it sees as politically vulnerable. [A patient with the H7N9 bird flu receiving treatment in a hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, in February. Flu specialists from around the world met in Geneva this week to assess the global influenza situation.]( [China's Bird Flu Surge Is a Low Epidemic Threat, W.H.O. Says]( By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. But the virus's division into two strains will probably force development of a second small stockpile of emergency vaccine to be introduced if the virus becomes more transmissible. For more science news, go to [NYTimes.com/Science »]( []Obituaries [Lester Tenney as a United States soldier during World War II.]( [Lester Tenney, 96, Dies; Faced Japan's Brutality and Won Its Apologies]( By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Mr. Tenney survived the Bataan Death March, followed by three and a half years of slave labor as a prisoner during World War II. [Ben Martin, Time Photographer Who Captured the 1960s, Dies at 86]( By SAM ROBERTS Mr. Martin photographed a Nixon-Kennedy debate, as well as Kennedy's funeral and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s march to Montgomery, Ala. [Robert Osborne in 2014. As the primetime host of Turner Classic Movies, he reached more than 82 million homes from its inception in 1994, the channel said.]( [Robert Osborne, Turner Classic Movies Host, Dies at 84]( By RICHARD SANDOMIR Mr. Osborne, a film historian, was the congenial prime time host of the movie channel since its inception in 1994. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial Editorials [President Trump's Muslim Ban Lite]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD By revising the ban, the administration has acknowledged it fumbled on a major campaign promise. But the result is still pernicious. [President Trump in the Oval Office in February.]( Editorial [President Trump's Blinkered Fiscal Vision]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Excessive tax cuts and smaller social programs will hurt the poor and the working class. [Middlebury College students turning their backs on a lecturer, Charles Murray.]( Editorial [Smothering Speech at Middlebury]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD All ideas need testing in open debate, or they become mere prejudices. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed Op-Ed Contributor [A Lesson Trump and the E.P.A. Should Heed]( By WILLIAM D. RUCKELSHAUS As Reagan learned, the public will not tolerate threats to their health or the environment. [People protesting the executive order President Trump signed in January, barring immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries.]( Op-Ed Contributors [Don't Be Fooled, Trump's New Muslim Ban Is Still Illegal]( By FARHANA KHERA and JOHNATHAN SMITH The revisions don't fix the core problem with the executive order: The administration is waging an all-out assault on Muslims. [Abba Eban, center left, was Israel's main contact with President Lyndon B. Johnson in the tense diplomacy that preceded the 1967 Middle East war.]( Vietnam '67 [America's Case of 'Tonkin Gulfitis']( By MARK ATWOOD LAWRENCE The Vietnam War had drastic, negative consequences for the country's foreign policy. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse. [See this Front Page]( | [Buy this Front Page]( FOLLOW US: [Facebook] [Facebook]( | [Twitter] [@NYTimes]( | [Pinterest] [Pinterest]( | [Instagram] [Instagram]( [NYT]( Access The New York Times from anywhere with our suite of apps: [iPhone®]( | [iPad®]( | [Android]( | [All]( [.] Save 15% at [The NYTimes Store »]( [.] Have questions? [Help Section »]( [.] Visit our mobile website at [m.nyt.com »]( About This Email This is an automated email. Please do not reply directly to this email. 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