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Deportations Threaten Constitutional Showdown, and DOGE Cuts Hit Nuclear Agency

Deportations Threaten Constitutional Showdown, and DOGE Cuts Hit Nuclear Agency

The Headlines
Mar 17, 2025 9 min
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<p>Plus, a retirement home for penguins. </p><p><strong>On Today’s Episode:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/constitutional-crisis.html" target="_blank"><strong>With Deportations, Trump Steps Closer to Showdown With Judicial Branch</strong></a>, <i>by Mattathias Schwartz</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/family-detention-immigrants-trump.html" target="_blank"><strong>Trump Administration Revives Detention of Immigrant Families</strong></a>, <i>by Jazmine Ulloa and Miriam Jordan</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/federal-job-cuts-nuclear-bomb-engineers-scientists.html" target="_blank"><strong>DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts</strong></a>, <i>by Sharon LaFraniere, Minho Kim and Julie Tate</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/world/middleeast/gaza-aid-block.html" target="_blank"><strong>Bread Lines and Salty Drinking Water: Israeli Aid Block Sets Gaza Back Again</strong></a>, <i>by Vivian Yee and Bilal Shbair</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/spacex-iss-nasa-astronauts-return.html" target="_blank"><strong>NASA Schedules Quick Return of Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule</strong></a>, <i>by Ali Watkins and Kenneth Chang</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/science/penguin-retirement-home-aquarium.html" target="_blank"><strong>At a Penguin ‘Retirement Home,’ a Slower Pace and Plenty of Fish</strong></a>, <i>by Amanda Holpuch</i></p><p>Tune in every weekday morning. To get our full audio journalism and storytelling experience, <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nyt-audio/id1549293936"><strong>download</strong></a> the New York Times Audio app — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/audio"><strong>sign up</strong></a> for our weekly newsletter.</p><p>Tell us what you think at: theheadlines@nytimes.com. </p> <p><p>Subscribe today at <a href="http://nytimes.com/podcasts">nytimes.com/podcasts</a> or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher">https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher</a>. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.</p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

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