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NPR News: 02-15-2026 10AM EST

15 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

1.128 - 21.229 Windsor Johnston

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. There was fresh debate over Greenland at the Munich Security Conference this weekend, even as President Trump appears to be backing off his threat to acquire the Danish territory. Danish Prime Minister Meta Frederiksen said she still fears threats to the island's sovereignty.

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21.209 - 28.02 Unknown

Unfortunately, I think the desire is the same. It's something we, of course, talk a lot about.

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Chapter 2: What recent developments occurred regarding Greenland at the Munich Security Conference?

28.06 - 35.07 Unknown

And I would also add that I think the pressure on Greenland is totally unacceptable.

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35.571 - 50.158 Windsor Johnston

She says Greenland's sovereignty must be respected, adding that the people of Greenland have said they don't want to become Americans. In recent days, Vice President J.D. Vance reiterated that the U.S. needs the territory for national security purposes.

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50.759 - 74.187 Windsor Johnston

Secretary of State Marco Rubio signaled a new, more transactional era in U.S.-European relations amid the ongoing diplomatic strain caused by the Trump administration's actions on Greenland. Days before the first meeting of President Trump's Board of Peace, Gaza's civil defense agency says at least 12 people have been killed and several others injured in Israeli airstrikes overnight.

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74.728 - 83.886 Windsor Johnston

The Hamas-run health ministry says at least 600 people have been killed in Gaza since the truce began. The BBC's Joel Gunter reports.

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84.018 - 105.064 Joel Gunter

What we know is that there was a series of strikes in the early hours of today on a refugee tent encampment in the north of the strip and in the southern suburb of Khan Yunis. Israel has said that the strikes were a response to ceasefire violations by Hamas, that Hamas militants emerged from tunnels

105.044 - 115.943 Joel Gunter

into the area of the strip beyond the so-called yellow line, the area which is controlled by the Israeli military. And that's why they carried out these strikes in the morning.

116.424 - 137.797 Windsor Johnston

The BBC's Joel Gunter reporting from Jerusalem. The federal government remains in a partial shutdown, with Congress no closer to a deal on how to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Democrats say they won't vote to restore funding without new restrictions on immigration enforcement tactics used by federal officers.

138.378 - 144.366 Windsor Johnston

Senator Gary Peters, a Democrat from Michigan, is the ranking member on the Homeland Security Committee.

144.346 - 166.05 Senator Gary Peters

We want to put in just some common sense guardrails on actions by federal agents in DHS. And basically the relatively concise list we provided to Republicans were to make sure that federal agents have to abide by the same kinds of rules and regulations that our local police in our communities follow each and every day.

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