Kristen Wright

The nurses are asking for better staffing levels to manage patients, and also they want safer conditions to protect them from workplace violence.

Negotiations are ongoing between the nurses' union and the private hospitals.

Those have stalled.

I'm Kristen Wright, and this is NPR News from Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright.

U.S.

military troops are on standby to deploy to Minneapolis, about 1,500.

The service members are from the Army's 11th Airborne Division.

A federal immigration officer shot and killed Renee Macklin Good in the city on January 7th.

NPR's Luke Garrett reports.

President Trump's tariff threats over objections by several countries to his demand that the U.S.

be allowed to acquire Greenland

have prompted European leaders to prepare for severe countermeasures on U.S.

companies.

NPR's Rob Schmitz reports now.

Extreme cold is in the forecast for about a dozen states in the northern U.S., from North Dakota to New York.

Chuck Kornbach reports.

This is NPR News.

Today is the federal holiday observing the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For more than 20 years, the annual Let Freedom Ring concert at the Kennedy Center