Dave Mattingly

President Trump's repeated remarks about the U.S.

acquiring Greenland are expected to be the focus of European Union leaders when they meet later this week in Brussels.

As Terry Schultz reports, EU officials are also expected to consider economic penalties against the U.S.

The Pentagon is preparing 1,500 active-duty U.S.

soldiers for possible deployment to Minnesota.

This follows recent protests sparked by the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis during a federal immigration enforcement operation, as NPR's Jasmine Guards reports.

This is NPR News from Washington.

Homebuilders in the U.S.

are signaling they're not optimistic about 2026.

That's according to a survey from the National Homebuilders Association and Wells Fargo.

As NPR's Stephen Basaja reports, builders remain concerned about rising costs and elevated interest rates.

The Justice Department recently announced a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, stemming from $2.5 billion in renovations at Fed headquarters in Washington.

Powell has said he believes the DOJ probe is an attempt to pressure the Fed into lowering interest rates more aggressively.

They've had lowered rates by a quarter point three separate times in the final months of last year.

The NFL playoffs are down to the Final Four.

The AFC title game will feature New England at Denver.

In the NFC, the championship game will be the LA Rams at the Seattle Seahawks.

I'm Dave Mattingly, NPR News in Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly.

Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison says he will fight President Trump in court if the president tries to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to ongoing protests of federal immigration officers in Minneapolis.