Chapter 1: What is the significance of President Trump's Board of Peace signing ceremony?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump has presided over a signing ceremony for his Board of Peace. Villa Marx reports the public ceremony was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and initially focused on Gaza.
Trump called himself a real estate person at heart in his closing remarks after he and leaders from more than a dozen nations, including Argentina, Pakistan and Mongolia, signed membership documents for the Board of Peace. Trump will chair the organisation overseeing the ceasefire and future reconstruction in Gaza, with a reported billion-dollar price tag for permanent membership.
Chapter 2: How are European leaders responding to Trump's Greenland proposal?
The UK and France have said they will not sign the treaty in its current form. Officials from Germany, China and Italy have expressed concerns. Belgium insisted it had not signed despite a White House statement that the country would participate in today's ceremony. Russian state media reported that President Vladimir Putin is willing to pay for Russia's membership with frozen assets in the US.
For NPR News, I'm Willem Marx in Davos, Switzerland.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of Jack Smith's testimony regarding Trump?
European leaders are meeting today to talk about President Trump's demand to take over Greenland. He said yesterday he would not use military force to annex the world's biggest island. It's controlled by NATO ally Denmark. Trump has repeatedly said the U.S. needs Greenland to protect it from Russia and China. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports China objects to being called a threat.
NATO spokesperson Alison Hart said the negotiations between Denmark, Greenland and the United States will try to ensure that Russia and China do not gain economic or military footholds in Greenland. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun countered that China opposes the practice of creating something out of nothing and using China as an excuse for selfish gain.
In 2018, China published plans to add Arctic shipping routes to its Belt and Road Infrastructure Strategy. Beijing argues that all nations have a right to conduct activities in the Arctic, and it insists that its activities promote peace, stability and sustainable development and comply with international law.
Chapter 4: What concerns do college faculty have about AI's impact on education?
Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
Former special counsel Jack Smith is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee this morning. He's been insisting that lawmakers question him publicly about his investigations into Donald Trump. Trump was accused of working to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and he was charged with mishandling classified documents.
Smith says he is neither a politician nor a partisan in any way, and his work reflects that.
I made my decisions without regard to President Trump's political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 election. President Trump was charged because the evidence established that he willfully broke the law, the very laws he took an oath to uphold.
President Trump has denied all the charges which have been dropped. He claims Smith is a criminal and should be put in prison. On Wall Street, the Dow is up 364 points.
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Chapter 5: What were the highlights of the Academy Awards nominations announced today?
Several governors have declared states of readiness or emergency ahead of a major winter storm barreling down on the central and southern U.S. Forecasters say heavy snow and ice are expected from the Rockies to the southeastern U.S. starting tomorrow. There are states of emergency in the Carolinas, Georgia and Texas, and states of preparedness in Maryland and West Virginia.
A new survey finds college faculty across the country are worried that students are becoming too dependent on artificial intelligence. From member station GBH in Boston, Kirk Carrapeza has more.
The survey from the American Association of Colleges and Universities finds 95% of faculty nationwide are concerned about how tools like ChatGPT are changing teaching and learning.
It's an enormous disruption.
Lee Rainey runs a digital research center at Elon University in North Carolina. He led the survey of more than 1,000 professors.
They're worried about students' attention spans. And they're worried about students basically deferring to these models and handing over their lives to these models.
Rainey says those fears strike at the heart of higher education's mission. And he says part of the problem is there's still no clear consensus on when using AI is cheating and when it's a legitimate learning tool. For NPR News, I'm Kirk Terrapezza in Boston.
The nominations for this year's Academy Awards have been announced this morning, and the film Sinners leads the way with 16 nominations, the most ever. These include Best Picture, Best Director for Ryan Coogler, and Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan. This is NPR.
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