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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly. President Trump's insistence that the U.S. acquire Greenland for national security reasons is expected to be a major issue when Trump attends the World Economic Forum this week. The president is scheduled to arrive in Davos, Switzerland tomorrow. Trump is threatening to impose an initial 10 percent tariff on eight European countries if they don't back his efforts. Each is a NATO member. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has more.
European Parliament member Bernard Guetta says Trump's inflammatory threat to slap tariffs on any country that tries to stop him from taking Greenland went too far.
All the countries and all the political forces were so shocked, deeply shocked by this incredible attitude. Actually, Mr. Trump is making the European unity much stronger every day.
Guetta says Europe has been taking it from the Trump administration because it can't afford to lose U.S. support on Ukraine, but there are limits. He says the EU is ready to apply counter-sanctions and more. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
Despite saying he had nothing to do with the conservative policy blueprint known as Project 2025, President Trump has implemented many of the policies organized by the Heritage Foundation in his second term in the White House. NPR's Franco Ordonez says a lot of the policies outlined in the plan became a political flashpoint when Trump ran for re-election in 2024.
Trump tapped Russell Vogt, an architect of Project 2025, to lead his budget office and soon unleashed a flurry of orders reshaping the government, many of which were outlined in Project 2025, from immigration enforcement to dismantling the Department of Education. Presidential historian Tevi Troy sees little difference between what the Heritage Foundation did with Project 2025 and What think tanks on the left and right have always done, compiling policy proposals for incoming presidents. I would say that Project 2025 was largely standard conservative fare, but with a bit more of a MAGA flavor than previously. Troy says Trump may have attracted scrutiny by trying to distance himself from Project 2025.
Franco Ordonez, NPR News.
Authorities in Spain say they expect to find more bodies as they continue going through the wreckage of two high-speed trains that crashed in the south of the country. The president of the region describes the rail cars involved as a mass of twisted metal. At least 40 people are confirmed dead, dozens were injured. Investigators say several cars on one of the trains heading for Madrid with more than 370 people aboard derailed and were hit by a second train going in the opposite direction. It's unclear as to why. This is NPR News. Indiana is celebrating its first national championship in college football. The top-ranked Hoosiers beat Miami in South Florida last night 27-21 to cap an undefeated season at 16-0.
Indiana intercepted a pass by Miami quarterback Carson Beck with less than a minute remaining to seal the victory. New research shows the disease known as MPOX can cause symptoms that last up to 18 months. MPOX was formerly known as monkeypox. As NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports, nearly 60 percent of patients in a study reported at least one lingering symptom.
In 2022, a strain of the mpox virus spread across the globe, ultimately affecting more than 140 countries. During that outbreak, the disease spread primarily between men who have sex with men. It can cause painful skin lesions, fever, and sometimes death. But little was known about long-lasting symptoms. Researchers studied over 150 MPOX patients in the U.S. for many months after they were first infected. The most common lingering symptom was scarring, but about 13% had ongoing physical problems, including difficulty urinating or defecating. Many reported lasting psychological issues, too, from depression to difficulty socializing. The results were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.
Wall Street futures are sharply lower this morning because of investor concerns about the rising political tensions over the future of Greenland.
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