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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump is running behind schedule tonight. The White House says Air Force One returns safely to the Washington, D.C. area after experiencing a minor electrical issue following takeoff for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The White House says Trump will take another aircraft to Davos, where he is expected to focus a speech Wednesday on making housing more affordable. His push to acquire Greenland, though, seems likely to overshadow his proposal. Speaking earlier Tuesday at the White House, Trump seemed optimistic.
I think that we will work something out where NATO is going to be very happy and where we're going to be very happy. But we need it for security purposes. We need it for national security and even world security.
Trump's Greenland push has sparked a sell-off on global financial markets after he threatened extra tariffs on multiple European countries. He also released on social media private messages from European leaders. Here's NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reporting.
Over the weekend, President Trump threatened eight European NATO members with a further 10% tariff by February 1st if they did not stop blocking his Greenland plans. And after President Macron said France would not join Trump's new peace board, Trump threatened a further 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne, saying that would change Macron's mind. Trump also published personal texts to him by Macron and NATO head Mark Rutte. Both men compliment Trump on his many accomplishments before saying they'd like to talk to him about his Greenland thinking.
What recent developments are there regarding President Trump's travel plans?
French TV commentators called Trump's foreign policy brutish and one based on provocation and humiliation. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
Now to Minnesota, where the Trump administration says it has no plans to stop its immigration enforcement crackdown. At Minnesota Public Radio's Matt Sepik reports the Justice Department is investigating top Democrats in the state who have publicly criticized the operations.
Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, and St. Paul Mayor Kali Herr all received subpoenas as part of an investigation into allegations of impeding federal law enforcement. Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino says the operation will continue. Despite documented instances of agents breaking into homes without warrants, he insists their tactics are constitutional. Everything we do every day is legal, ethical, moral, well-grounded in law. Among American Man, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen with no criminal record, says agents looking for undocumented sex offenders broke down his door and arrested him Sunday. They released him an hour later with no explanation. For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis.
Forecasters keeping an eye on the potential for a damaging winter storm that could bring ice and power outages across the South this weekend. The exact timing and path, though, remain uncertain. You're listening to NPR News. Syrian government and Kurdish Syrian forces have agreed to a four-day ceasefire after days of fighting that have led to prison breaks by ISIS suspects. Imperious Jane Araf has details.
Kurdish-led forces controlling northeastern Syria pulled back on Tuesday from guarding the country's biggest ISIS detention camp, saying they had to defend themselves from approaching Syrian government forces. To stem a security vacuum that has seen ISIS detainees escaping, the two sides under U.S. pressure have now agreed to a four-day ceasefire. That agreement will include transferring control of prisons and camps. to Syria's predominantly Arab official forces. The Kurds fought alongside U.S. troops to defeat ISIS in 2019. But U.S. envoy Tom Barak said in a statement that the U.S.
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