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Supreme Court Considers Trump’s Power, and Musk’s Team Wants Access to I.R.S. Records

Supreme Court Considers Trump’s Power, and Musk’s Team Wants Access to I.R.S. Records

The Headlines
Feb 17, 2025 8 min
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<p>Plus, how to remember everything.  </p><p><strong>On Today’s Episode:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/world/europe/europe-us-russia-ukraine-talks.html" target="_blank"><strong>Left Out of Ukraine Talks, Europe Races to Organize a Response</strong></a>, <i>by Andrew E. Kramer</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/us/trump-supreme-court-special-counsel.html" target="_blank"><strong>First Test of Trump’s Power to Fire Officials Reaches Supreme Court</strong></a>, <i>by Adam Liptak</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/business/musk-irs-doge.html" target="_blank"><strong>Musk Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records</strong></a>, <i>by Alan Rappeport, Andrew Duehren and Maggie Haberman</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/us/kentucky-flooding-death.html" target="_blank"><strong>At Least 10 Dead in South After Rainstorm Pounds the Region</strong></a>, <i>by Tim Balk, Amanda Holpuch and Austyn Gaffney</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/science/vishvaa-rajakumar-memory-techniques.html" target="_blank"><strong>Meet the Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5 Seconds</strong></a>, <i>by Michael S. Rosenwald</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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