Michelle Kellerman

Greenland belongs to Greenlanders, the statement went on to say.

Polls there show that while most Greenlanders want independence from Denmark, an overwhelming majority reject the idea of joining the US.

Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.

At an end-of-year news conference, Secretary Rubio was asked repeatedly about the U.S.

military buildup near Venezuela.

He says President Trump promised to take on the cartels and is doing that.

Rubio would not describe a recent call between Trump and Maduro, but said that the Venezuelans broke deals with the Biden administration.

You can't do a peace deal with these people any more than you can do a peace deal with a mafia.

Rubio defended the strikes on alleged drug boats, saying they've been effective.

The Trump administration is also imposing sanctions on seven family members of individuals tied to what it calls the illegitimate Maduro regime.

Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Washington.

Trump administration officials are fuming over a recent raid by South Africa on a processing center for Afrikaners applying to come to the U.S.

The South Africans say they were enforcing their immigration laws and plan to deport some of the Kenyans who were working at the center in Johannesburg with the U.S.

without proper South African work visas.

During the raid, two U.S.

government officials were briefly detained and the passport of one of them was posted on social media.

The U.S.

calls that an unacceptable form of harassment and called on the South African government to hold those responsible accountable.

or face, quote, severe consequences.

Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.