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What are President Trump's new tariff threats regarding NATO countries?
President Trump is threatening new tariffs on a block of NATO countries in an effort to purchase Greenland. But some Senate Republicans and Democrats don't support the White House's bid to acquire the semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, as NPR's Luke Garrett reports.
In a social media post announcing new tariffs, Trump said the U.S. needs Greenland to protect the island from Russia and China. But Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Mark Warner denied this on CBS.
The only security threat to Greenland right now is the United States.
In his effort to take over Greenland, Trump has not taken military seizure off the table. Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky told NBC the GOP-controlled Congress doesn't back an invasion.
On the war powers or on militarily invading Greenland, I've heard of no Republican support for that.
How are Senate Republicans and Democrats responding to Trump's Greenland acquisition bid?
When the Senate returns, Paul and Democratic Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia hope to pass a war powers resolution that would limit Trump's ability to invade Greenland. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
The World Economic Forum opens this week in Davos, Switzerland, at a moment when relations between the US and Europe are tense over Greenland. President Trump is expected there. The Pentagon has put 1,500 US military soldiers on standby to possibly deploy to Minneapolis. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is facing increasing scrutiny from immigration advocates. They say the agency is actively trying to recruit local police officers in Minnesota and in other states. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports.
Naina Gupta is policy director with the American Immigration Council. She says police departments in Minnesota have told her organization that the DHS is trying to lure officers away from local agencies to join the federal ranks.
We know that they are looking... you know, as desperately as possible to find people to join the agency and poaching from local police agencies is a fast way. to do that, especially in the areas where they're looking to scale up immigration enforcement.
In a statement to NPR, the DHS says many of its new recruits are former law enforcement officers, military, or former ICE officers who retired or quit under the Biden administration. Windsor Johnston, NPR News.
Authorities in Spain say at least 39 people have been killed after a high-speed train left the tracks and slammed into another train. NPR's Miguel Macias says dozens of passengers were also injured.
A train that was traveling from Malaga to Madrid collided with the train headed for Huelva. Transport Minister Oscar Puente says the train that derailed was only four years old and the track itself had been renovated in May 2025. The accident is tremendously strange, Puente said, as the trains were also traveling on a flat stretch of track. The cause of the accident is under investigation. Miguel Macías, NPR News, Seville, Spain.
This is NPR. Gourmet Magazine is finding new life in a new form. NPR's Netta Ulabi reports.
Gourmet Magazine shuttered in 2009, but its former publisher, Condé Nast, kept renewing its trademark for years. Recently, a sharp-eyed food writer named Sam Dean noticed the rights had expired. He came up with a plan to reboot Gourmet as an online-only newsletter, along with a group of other journalists. Most are in their 30s and too young to have written for the original gourmet. That speaks to the original magazine's influence. Its last editor, Ruth Reichel, has given the new newsletter her blessing. But it will launch on Tuesday as a fully independent operation, owned by its workers, without the imprimatur of Condé Nast. Nada Ulibi, NPR News.
Academy Award winner Zoe Saldana is now the highest-grossing actor. Saldana's movies, among them Avatar and Avengers Endgame, have made more than $15 billion. She is the first American of Dominican descent to win an Oscar. Today, many are honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Communities are commemorating Dr. King's 97th birthday with peace walks, days of service, and reflection.
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