What are the key details of the U.S. meeting with Denmark and Greenland?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance are due to meet with the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland at the White House today. NPR's Jackie Northam reports these talks come as President Trump has repeatedly said he wants to acquire Greenland.
Denmark and Greenland requested the meeting with Secretary Rubio, who has tried to tamp down President Trump's increasingly aggressive remarks about wanting ownership of Greenland for national security reasons, even if it means by military force. Trump recently said if the U.S. doesn't take the semi-autonomous territory, Russia or China will, adding the U.S.
can take it the easy way or the hard way. Analysts believe any such move would split the NATO alliance. Denmark and Greenland have rejected pressure from the White House ahead of the meeting with Rubio and Vice President Vance. Denmark has offered to work with the U.S. to beef up security in the Arctic. Jackie Northam, NPR News.
Top prosecutors in Minneapolis have resigned over the Trump administration's handling of the shooting death of Rene Good by an ICE agent. That includes the second-in-command, Joe Thompson. This comes after the Justice Department pushed the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office to investigate Good's widow.
Thompson also objected to the Justice Department's decision to exclude Minnesota officials from the investigation. This as protests around the country continue. Julio Murphy-Zalea is with the ACLU in Minnesota. He says free speech has to be protected.
Folks are gathering peacefully across not just Twin Cities, but across the state, joined by other cities across the nation. And so I am confident that our voices will be heard.
Speaking there to ABC News. China has posted a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus for the last year, meaning it's exporting much more than it buys from other countries. And Pierce Emily Fang reports this is despite the Trump administration's tariffs on Chinese goods.
China's record trade surplus for the last year shows how Beijing has successfully found new markets outside of the U.S. to export to. Exports to the U.S. declined by a fifth last year. Chinese officials said the surplus showed how China was diversifying who it trades with.
But the surplus also shows how China remains reliant on exports to fuel its economic growth, and consumer demand inside China is still plateauing.
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