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Chapter 1: What is the significance of Greenland's status in international relations?
Greenland has said it is not for sale. Denmark has said it can't even legally sell Greenland. And whether Trump can or will or should try to control or purchase a territory that does not want to be sold is one question. But on Planet Money, we are more interested in how we even got to this moment and how we might gracefully get out of it.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The White House says representatives of over 40 nations will take part in a meeting tomorrow of what President Trump calls his Board of Peace. They're trying to raise money and troops for Gaza, as NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports.
At a Security Council meeting on the Middle East, U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz was again calling on countries to support the Board of Peace. He says it will announce over $5 billion, and he dismisses criticism about the makeup of the board from, as he puts it, the chattering classes.
The Board of Peace, colleagues, is a board of action. And we will build upon this progress already made by addressing Gaza's early recovery and its humanitarian needs.
27 nations have formally joined. Only one country, Indonesia, has so far committed to sending troops to a stabilization force. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Washington.
Congressional Democrats traveled to Ohio today to depose billionaire Les Wexner about his connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wexner denies wrongdoing, but the legislators say they aren't convinced that's true. George Shilcock with member station WSU reports.
Wexner says in a statement he was naive and foolish to trust Epstein with his vast fortune. Wexner founded the limited and later owned Victoria's Secret, through which Epstein allegedly used his access to sexually traffic young women.
House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia of California says the 88-year-old is downplaying how close he was to Epstein, who Garcia says was enabled by Wexner's wealth.
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Chapter 2: How is the U.S. Board of Peace addressing the situation in Gaza?
Steve Futterman reports.
The dream gold medal match of the U.S. versus Canada was on the brink twice on Wednesday. In the end, both the Americans and Canadians survived, but each had to do it in overtime. In the U.S.-Sweden game, the Americans were 91 seconds away from victory when Sweden tied the game 1-1.
In the overtime, Quinn Hughes, who plays for the Minnesota Wild, was able to get the winning goal to keep the Americans alive. The Canada-Czechia game was even more dramatic. The Czechs took a 3-2 lead with less than eight minutes left in regulation. Canada, minutes away from elimination, was able to tie the game and then, like the U.S., win in overtime.
The two teams now advance to Friday's semifinals. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Milan.
The U.S. stock market ticked higher today. The S&P 500 rose more than half a percent. The Dow added a quarter of a percent. This is NPR. U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn's crash at the Olympics has renewed pressure to rethink the mechanism that attaches boots to skis. Ski and snowboard leaders say a smart binding system is in early development.
Experts say a new algorithm could sense loss of control and trigger a faster release, like the airbag system now required in elite skiers' suits. Hollywood is outraged over a new AI video tool. NPR's Chloe Veltman reports Netflix, Disney, and others are threatening to sue the maker of Seed Dance 2.0.
Netflix is the latest media giant to push back against ByteDance this week when it sent the Chinese company a cease and desist letter. Netflix accuses ByteDance of allowing its latest AI video creation tool, Seedance 2.0, to generate hyper-realistic imitations of characters from such Netflix-owned shows as Bridgerton and Squid Game.
Industry stakeholders, including the Motion Picture Association, have also joined the backlash. The uproar began last week after a video depicting a fight scene between two figures closely resembling Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt went viral. In an email to NPR, ByteDance said it respects intellectual property rights and is taking steps to strengthen current safeguards, but did not say how.
Chloe Veltman, NPR News.
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