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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

Giles Snyder 0:00

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.

What did the Danish Foreign Minister say about Trump's communication with Norway?

Giles Snyder 0:04

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Loke Rasmussen says President Trump's text to Norway's Prime Minister linking his stance on Greenland to last year's decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize was not helpful.

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disrupted by the statement from the president. And that's a reality of life. And that's why it's so important that all our allies in the NATO alliance and the European Union stand up for these principles to show the American president You have a desire, you have a vision, you have a request, but you will never be able to achieve that by putting pressure on us. That signal is of crucial importance in order to, I would say, to push the Americans back into the meeting room as we agreed last week.

How is the Homeland Security Department facing scrutiny from immigration advocates?

Giles Snyder 0:51

And the text message, Trump said he no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace. But he posted a social media message a short time ago saying he spoke by phone with NATO Secretary General and agreed to a meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where he is due to speak Wednesday at the World Economic Forum. Homeland Security Department facing increasing scrutiny from immigration advocates. They say the agency is trying to recruit local police officers in Minnesota and in other states. Here's NPR's Windsor Johnston.

What happened in Michigan during the recent snowstorm?

Windsor Johnston 1:20

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.

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We know that they are looking as desperately as possible to find people to join the agency and poaching from local police agencies is a fast way to to do that, especially in the areas where they're looking to scale up immigration enforcement.

Windsor Johnston 1:52

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.

What new policy is affecting Congress's access to immigration detention facilities?

Giles Snyder 2:06

In Michigan, more than 100 vehicles crashed into each other or slid off the interstate as snow from the Great Lakes blanketed the state. Police closed the highway in both directions southwest of Grand Rapids. Patrick Center with Member Station WGVU has more.

Patrick Center 2:22

The sprawling multi-car pileup took place on Interstate I-196 in West Michigan's Ottawa counties.

What are the implications of Vietnam's Communist Party Congress for its leadership and economy?

Patrick Center 2:29

The Michigan State Police and local authorities assisted deputies along the seven-mile stretch of highway, working with ambulance and fire services to transport injured motorists to area hospitals. The local transit authority and nearby Hudsonville High School dispatched buses transporting stranded motorists away from the scene. For NPR News, I'm Patrick Center in West Michigan.

Giles Snyder 2:52

Indiana has capped a perfect season going undefeated in winning the school's first college football championship over Miami. This is NPR. A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to keep enforcing a new policy requiring members of Congress to give a week's notice before they can visit immigration detention facilities. Attorneys representing several Democratic members of Congress had asked the judge to temporarily block the policy that went into effect earlier this month. The judge says... They used the wrong procedural vehicle to challenge it. Hackers have disrupted Iranian state television to air footage supporting the exiled crown prince and urging security forces not to target civilians.

Giles Snyder 3:35

A hack came amid a crackdown on nationwide protests that activists say has left more than 4,000 people dead. Delegates from Vietnam's Communist Party meeting this week in Hanoi to formally choose the country's leadership and chart its economic future for the next five years. Michael Sullivan reports.

Michael Sullivan 3:51

The current general secretary, To Lam, is expected to keep his post and try to seek that of president as well, a controversial dual role similar to that of Xi Jinping in neighboring China. In this carefully choreographed Congress, nearly 1,600 delegates will choose the roughly 200-member Central Committee, which in turn appoints the Politburo and the new leadership.