Luke Garrett

pressure system that has descended down from northern Alberta, Saskatchewan area, and it is tracking across the northern Great Lakes, and it's going to head out northeast towards the New England states.

Up to 1,500 active duty soldiers in Alaska are preparing for a possible deployment to Minnesota.

The prepare to deploy orders come after Trump said Thursday he'd implement the Insurrection Act unless local officials stop protesters from, quote, attacking immigration agents.

The rarely used law allows for domestic military use.

In Minneapolis, protesters and federal officers have clashed after U.S.

immigration and custom enforcement agents surged into the city.

ICE agents have shot two people in the city this month, leaving one dead.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement to NPR, quote, the Department of War is always prepared to execute the orders of the commander-in-chief if called upon.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry has called on city residents to remain peaceful and not give Trump an excuse to deploy the troops.

Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.

Greenland is not for sale.

U.S.

immigration and custom enforcement agents surged into Minneapolis in December, sparking protests and unrest.

One woman is dead after being shot by an ICE agent.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blamed the violence on local leaders.

Noem told CBS her department is willing to work with local leaders going forward, but Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said it's the federal agents who are creating the chaos.

Fry called on ICE to leave the city and criticized President Trump's threat to send in the military.

Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.

Troops have fought and died over the eastern region of Ukraine, and deciding who controls this area remains a contested and unresolved point.

Here's how Trump described it at the joint press conference.