Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump leaves this afternoon for Switzerland. He will attend the World Economic Forum there.
Chapter 2: What is President Trump's agenda at the World Economic Forum?
Greenland is expected to be the main topic. Trump wants to take over the world's biggest island. European nations oppose this move. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports Trump says if they don't back him, he'll impose tariffs on eight European countries.
Trump posted that he's going to impose 10 percent tariffs on those countries starting in February. Then he's going to raise it to 25 percent in June. That is until a Greenland deal happens. Now, we don't know details here. I've asked the White House, for example, what law would authorize this and have received no word yet.
But those eight European countries, meanwhile, they're members of NATO, and they've said they stand in full solidarity with fellow NATO member Denmark and Greenland, which is a Denmark territory.
NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reporting. President Trump is also inviting world leaders to sign the charter of his new Board of Peace this week, but so far only a few countries have publicly committed to do so. NPR's Danielle Estrin reports.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of Trump's tariffs on European countries?
The charter of President Trump's Board of Peace seeks an expanded mandate beyond just overseeing the rehabilitation of Gaza. It's being defined as a peacekeeping body to mediate world conflicts. Trump would be chairman indefinitely, and countries would need to pay a billion dollars to become permanent members.
Trump is inviting world leaders to sign the Board of Peace charter at a ceremony Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos. So far, at least five countries have publicly committed— Vietnam, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Argentina, and Morocco. French President Emmanuel Macron does not plan to join, according to the Associated Press.
Trump told reporters, quote, I'll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes and he'll join. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Today is the anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration as president. He once insisted he didn't have anything to do with the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, but he still implemented many of its policies. NPR's Franco Ordonez explains.
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.
On Wall Street, in pre-market trading, Dow futures are down more than 1%. This is NPR. In Nigeria, there are conflicting reports over whether gunmen kidnapped scores of people attending three churches on Sunday. Residents say a few people escaped, but local Nigerian police deny any abductions happened at all. President Trump ordered U.S. airstrikes on Nigeria on Christmas Day.
He says he did it because Islamist militants were attacking Christians. New research shows the disease, known as MPOX, can cause symptoms that last up to 18 months. 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.
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Chapter 4: How does Trump's Board of Peace aim to mediate world conflicts?
Scientists with NASA say a geomagnetic storm triggered by a solar flare is continuing right now. These can cause trouble for satellite navigation and some power systems, but these also sparked remarkable northern lights across parts of the northern U.S. yesterday. This is NPR.