Legal Challenges, Severe Weather Impacts, and Memory Championship Highlights

Plus, how to remember everything.  

On Today’s Episode:

Left Out of Ukraine Talks, Europe Races to Organize a Response, by Andrew E. Kramer

First Test of Trump’s Power to Fire Officials Reaches Supreme Court, by Adam Liptak

Musk Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records, by Alan Rappeport, Andrew Duehren and Maggie Haberman

At Least 10 Dead in South After Rainstorm Pounds the Region, by Tim Balk, Amanda Holpuch and Austyn Gaffney

Meet the Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5 Seconds, by Michael S. Rosenwald

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