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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The prime minister of Norway says he received a message from President Trump about rising tensions over Greenland. Trump said he no longer felt obligated to pursue peace after not winning the Nobel Peace Prize. In a statement, Norway's leader said he and Finland's president both urged Trump to de-escalate and requested a call. He also reminded the president that the Peace Prize is awarded by an independent committee, not the Norwegian government. Trump on Saturday imposed a 10 percent tariff on goods from eight European countries, including Norway, that oppose his efforts to take control of Greenland. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports.
Over the weekend, European nations put out a joint statement of solidarity with Denmark and Greenland and said President Trump's bellicose talk and threats to impose further tariffs on nations that object to his Greenland plans risks damaging the transatlantic alliance. Célie Bellin is head of the Paris Office of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Europe feels more alone than it's ever been, but also feels a greater sense, I think, of solidarity and collective determination to push back.
Bellin says Europeans could invoke counter-sanctions and the EU could also activate for the first time an anti-coercion instrument to restrict US access to restrict U.S. access to the lucrative EU market.
Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris. Danish officials say they're not attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week amid the ongoing dispute over Greenland. The Supreme Court is set to issue opinions in the coming days. NPR's Hansi Lowong reports one case could lead to the biggest drop in black representation in Congress.
The Supreme Court appears inclined to further weaken the Voting Rights Act. In places where voting is racially polarized, the landmark law has helped ensure districts are drawn in a way that gives racial minority voters a chance of electing their preferred candidates. An NPR analysis has found the high court's decision in this case could affect 15 U.S. House districts in the South that are currently represented by a Black Democratic member of Congress. Republican-led states may decide to keep some of these districts for partisan reasons, but losing a handful of those districts could fuel the largest ever drop in the number of Black representatives in Congress. For a century after the Civil War, that figure stayed in the single digits or at zero.
But since the Voting Rights Act became law, the number's grown to 63 Black-represented districts today. Anzi Luwong, NPR News.
An investigation is underway to determine the cause of a train crash that killed at least 39 people in southern Spain. Speaking through an interpreter, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says the probe will be transparent.
The Spanish society, as everyone, is asking what happened? How did this happen? How is it possible that this happened?
The crash occurred Sunday night when the back end of a train derailed, slamming into another. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Austrian scientists say they've documented the first case of tool use by a cow. NPR's Nate Rott reports.
Veronica is a 13-year-old Swiss brown cow living in Austria amidst a lot of biting horseflies. To help relieve the itching, cognitive biologists from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna say she's figured out how to pick up sticks in her mouth and use them to scratch hard-to-reach places. Over 70 trials with a broom, they found she used each end, bristle and knob, separately for different areas. Similar, researcher Elise Auersperg says, to how chimpanzees employ multi-use tools.
This should give us some thought that we may perhaps have underestimated the intelligence of some livestock species.
Though, she adds, Veronica is fairly unique in that she's 13 years old and is kept as a pet. Nate Rott, NPR News.
The man behind one of the most iconic openings in film history has died. Roger Allers co-directed The Lion King and helped shape a generation of Disney animation.
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