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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Trump administration shows no sign of dropping its desire to take over Greenland. After a meeting today with Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the foreign minister of Denmark, of which Greenland is an autonomous territory, says fundamental differences remain.
What recent actions has the Trump administration taken regarding Greenland?
Here's NPR's Jackie Northam.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars-Locke Rasmussen says the meeting at the White House followed what he called a number of remarkable comments by President Trump on wanting to acquire Greenland, a semi-autonomous region of Denmark, even if by force. Rasmussen agrees that Arctic security is important, but not at any price.
And of course we have to respond to this. The big difference is whether that must lead to a situation where U.S. acquire Greenland, and that is absolutely not necessary.
Rasmussen says Denmark is open to an increased U.S. presence in Greenland. He says during the Cold War, the U.S. had 17 military installations there. Now it has one. A high-level working group is due to meet again in a few weeks to continue talks. Jackie Northam, NPR News.
The administration plans to stop processing visa applications from foreign applicants it suspects will require public assistance to live in the U.S. The State Department has identified 75 countries, including Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, and Somalia. Democratic Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan says she is under investigation after she participated in a video with five other lawmakers urging members of the military to refuse illegal orders. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia declined to confirm or deny the inquiry. NPR's Sam Greenglass reports.
President Trump called the video message treasonous and amplified a social media post calling for the six Democrats to be hanged. Slotkin said she received a thousand credible threats and a bomb scare.
Truth doesn't matter. Facts don't matter. And anyone who disagrees with him becomes an enemy. And he then weaponizes the federal government against them. It's legal intimidation and physical intimidation meant to get you to shut up.
The Pentagon this week is moving to censure another one of the six lawmakers, Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy combat pilot. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
A space crew will soon be homebound. In about an hour, the team's expected to undock from the International Space Station and splash down off California's coast early in the morning. NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports it's the first time NASA's cut short an ISS mission for medical reasons.
NASA officials have stressed that the unidentified astronaut is stable, but say they need to do the kind of full diagnostic workup that's only possible on the ground. In a video beamed down from the station earlier this week, Everyone on board spoke on camera, and none appeared obviously ill. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR News. The West Wing and Field of Dreams actor Timothy Busfield was scheduled to make an initial court appearance today on child sexual abuse charges in New Mexico. The actor, who's married to Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert, denies the allegations. 8.7 million people tuned into the Golden Globes Awards Sunday, according to tracking firm Nielsen. That's a nearly 7% drop from a year ago. Dinosaur ages have been estimated using the growth rings in their bones, one ring per year. Well, science reporter Ari Daniel explains that may not be quite right.
To really confirm the ring-counting approach, one would need to study live dinosaurs. The next best thing are their living relatives, including crocodiles. Their skeletons tell a story about how they grew. University of Cape Town paleobiologist Anousia Chinsami-Toran and her colleagues injected several crocs with an antibiotic which got taken up in their bones. When they later looked at those bones, they found more rings than expected. This may have implications for dinosaur bones, suggesting some dinos may have been younger when they perished than previously thought.
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