Tracy Mumford

They called the tariff threat intimidation and unacceptable.

My colleague Gina Smilick covers the EU.

She says that the bloc

could retaliate with a drastic tool it's never used before, officially called the anti-coercion instrument.

Unofficially, it's called Europe's trade bazooka, and it could be used to slap restrictions on big American tech companies or other corporations that do a lot of business in Europe.

Gina says that some officials, including the president of France, have suggested it's time to use it.

But for now, the EU is leaning more toward negotiation than retaliation.

President Trump has repeatedly said the U.S.

needs Greenland for national security purposes to push back against Russian and Chinese interests in the Arctic.

In the past, the U.S.

did have a large military presence on the island.

It closed a lot of its facilities there after the Cold War.

But the U.S.

has the right to reopen about 16 bases in Greenland.

Trump, however, has insisted that's not enough, saying ownership was important, quote, because that is what I feel is psychologically needed for success.

In Minnesota, a federal judge has ordered ICE agents to stop using excessive force against protesters.

Her ruling outlined a pattern of misconduct in how officers responded to incidents in December, even before tensions escalated after the fatal shooting of Renee Good.

In the case, plaintiffs described how they were hit with pepper spray without warning and surrounded by ICE agents pointing semi-automatic weapons at them at close range.

One woman described how she was put face down in the snow and then taken to a federal building where some of her clothes were removed, her wedding ring was cut off, and she was shackled.

She was told she'd be charged with obstructing an officer, but no charges were filed.