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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
What did Vice President J.D. Vance say about protests and ICE enforcement in Minneapolis?
Vice President J.D. Vance accuses, quote, a few very far-left agitators of preventing immigration and customs enforcement agents from doing their jobs without being harassed. After a stop in Ohio today, Vance traveled to Minneapolis, the flashpoint of growing protests against against sweeping raids, detentions, and activists say absence of due process. Vance argues local Minnesota officials need to help federal agents enforce immigration laws.
If a protester shows up and that protester turns violent against our immigration officers, we really, really need the cooperation of our local partners. We haven't gotten it yet, but I think if we do, we really can lower the temperature.
Yesterday, school district officials said ICE agents detained a five-year-old child, one of four minors recently detained, along with his father. Vance disputed their account.
So the story is that ICE detained a five-year-old.
How did Vance respond to reports about ICE detaining a five-year-old child?
Well, what are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a five-year-old child freeze to death? Are they not supposed to arrest an illegal alien in the United States of America?
Protests, including Minnesota faith-based leaders backed by many businesses and labor unions, are planning a day of demonstrations tomorrow. President Trump has introduced his Board of Peace initially proposed to keep the Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza from collapsing. In Davos, Switzerland, inside of the World Economic Forum, Trump said the effort will need international participation.
There's
tremendous potential with the United Nations. And I think the combination of the Board of Peace with the kind of people we have here, coupled with the United Nations, can be something very, very unique for the world. For the world.
What is President Trump's new 'Board of Peace' and how did he present it at Davos?
This isn't United States. This is for the world.
However, many U.S. allies have not yet joined. The president's globally controversial quest to acquire Greenland overshadowed the inauguration of his Board of Peace. Well, in a hard-hitting speech at Davos today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Europe's inaction while giving Europeans a lesson in courage. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports Zelensky was not afraid.
To broach sensitive subjects, Zelensky opened his speech with a reference to the movie Groundhog Day. He said Ukrainians have been living the same day for four years.
Just last year here in Davos, I ended my speech with the words, Europe needs to know how to defend itself.
How did Ukrainian President Zelensky criticize Europe’s response at Davos?
A year has passed, said Zelensky, and nothing has changed. He exhorted Europe to stop the Russian shadow fleet selling the oil that's financing Putin's war and said Europeans must stop hoping President Trump will change. He likes the way he is, Zelensky told them. There will always be new threats, he said. What's important is to act in time.
World order comes from action, and we just need the courage to act. Without action now, there is no tomorrow.
Let's end this Groundhog Day, said Zelensky. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris. It's NPR.
A huge swath of the United States is bracing for a life-threatening winter storm over the weekend. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports tens of millions of people are under a winter storm and extreme cold watch stretching from New Mexico into the Ohio River Valley, the South, and into the northeastern U.S.,
Which U.S. regions are bracing for the upcoming life-threatening winter storm and what precautions are advised?
Frigid temperatures and significant accumulations of ice, snow and sleet are in the forecast. It will make travel conditions treacherous and could knock out power lines. Several governors are declaring states of emergency, including Texas, the Carolinas and Georgia. That allows them to pre-treat highways, open warming stations, stage supplies and equipment and call up National Guard troops. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp says people should plan now.
Make sure you got the things that you need at your house to stay warm and hunker down in case you lose power for a day or two.
The storm is also likely to disrupt air travel at some of the busiest airports in the country. Debbie Elliott, NPR News.
Oscar nominations are out.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:04
2
What did Vice President J.D. Vance say about protests and ICE enforcement in Minneapolis?
0:04–0:58
3
How did Vance respond to reports about ICE detaining a five-year-old child?
0:58–1:44
4
What is President Trump's new 'Board of Peace' and how did he present it at Davos?
1:44–2:24
5
How did Ukrainian President Zelensky criticize Europe’s response at Davos?
2:24–3:21
6
Which U.S. regions are bracing for the upcoming life-threatening winter storm and what precautions are advised?
3:21–4:18
7
Which films led the Oscar nominations and what were the major industry highlights?
4:18–4:39