Traci Mumford

Today at the White House, Vice President Jadie Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will sit down with the foreign ministers of Greenland and Denmark as the administration has ramped up its threats to take over the territory.

Ahead of the meeting, Greenland's prime minister reiterated that the island is not for sale and said his people want to stick with Denmark, which currently oversees the territory, and the European Union.

Also, in Gaza, as soon as today, the U.S.

could announce a committee of Palestinians who will be put in charge of running daily life there.

Under the U.S.

plan for Gaza, that committee would be apolitical and mostly focused on providing public services.

It will be overseen by a so-called Board of Peace led by President Trump, along with other world leaders who haven't been announced yet.

U.S.

officials hope that setting up the new panel will weaken the grip that Hamas still has on the territory.

though experts say they will face enormous challenges in rebuilding Gaza.

Many of the territory's 2 million residents are still living in tents or half-destroyed houses.

And The Times has found that despite the ongoing ceasefire, Israeli forces have continued to demolish structures there.

Satellite imagery shows Israel has destroyed more than 2,500 buildings in the last few months, along with greenhouses and swaths of farmland.

Israel says it's destroying underground tunnels and demilitarizing the areas, though one former Israeli military commander questioned the scope, saying, quote, It's not selective destruction.

It's everything.

And trade data released by the Chinese government yesterday offers a new look at the impact of Trump's tariffs.

The data shows that the tariffs reduced China's trade surplus with the U.S.

by 22 percent last year.

But overall, China still managed to have the largest global trade surplus in world history.

It exported a trillion-plus more dollars of goods and services than it imported.