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Chapter 1: What are the implications of Greenland not being for sale?
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. Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the Trump administration's ambitions during a visit with Caribbean leaders. The meeting with the Caribbean community bloc comes after the U.S. deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The military action has created an energy crisis in Cuba, which relied heavily on Venezuelan oil.
Chapter 2: How is the U.S. administration responding to the crisis in Cuba?
The people of Cuba are suffering today. They've been suffering for a long time. They're suffering now perhaps more than at any time in recent memory, perhaps in the history since 1959. This is the worst economic climate that Cuba has faced. And it is the authorities there in that government who are responsible for that.
Mexico and Canada have been sending aid shipments to Cuba. His trip came as Cuba's government announced that its soldiers killed four people aboard a speedboat registered in Florida. Cuban officials say the boat's occupants opened fire on officers in Cuban waters. Rubio said the U.S. is gathering its own information on the incident.
Federal regulators have issued citations and fines to three businesses for failing to protect six workers who died by toxic gas exposure at a northern Colorado dairy last year. Emma Van Den Einde of member station KUNC has the details.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says the dairy, a local dairy equipment servicer, and a local contractor failed to train workers properly on how to detect toxic gases. The fines between the three businesses add up to nearly $250,000. Ryan Spear is an attorney representing the families of four of the deceased workers.
If we're going to compare those... fines to a life, they are wholeheartedly a drop in the bucket. And I think that the family members are more concerned with how to ensure that these types of accidents do not happen again.
Spear says the families are still waiting on answers on what exactly happened at the dairy and why. For NPR News, I'm Emma Van Den Einde in Greeley, Colorado.
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Chapter 3: What were the findings from the Colorado dairy toxic gas incident?
The microchip company NVIDIA reported record sales and profits last quarter that were nearly double what they were at the same time last year. The company is an AI bellwether, and as NPR's John Ruich reports, the strong earnings could help ease fears of a bubble.
NVIDIA has become the world's biggest company by selling the most coveted chips for artificial intelligence data centers. The company says last quarter its sales grew 73% year on year and its profits leapt 94% to $43 billion. This comes at a time when markets have been jittery about whether major spending on AI across the industry will translate into profits.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says AI has fundamentally changed computing and spending on it is the path to profit and growth. But his company is under immense pressure. NVIDIA's share price popped in after-hours trading following the earnings report, but quickly slipped back to about where it was before. John Rewich, NPR News.
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Chapter 4: How did NVIDIA achieve record sales and profits recently?
stocks rose today and erased their losses for the week so far. The S&P 500 gained more than three-quarters of a percent. This is NPR News. Mexican lawmakers have approved President Claudia Sheinbaum's initiative to gradually reduce the work week from 48 hours to 40 hours. The constitutional reform now goes to state legislatures for approval.
It passed the lower chamber of the Mexican Congress today. The changes will be implemented gradually, trimming two hours per year beginning in 2027. A watchdog group has filed a complaint against a federal judge charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. NPR's Kerry Johnson reports news of the judge's arrest took at least four months to emerge.
The nonprofit group Fix the Court says Michigan Judge Thomas Luddington engaged in behavior that maligns his office and runs afoul of high standards federal judges are expected to follow.
Chapter 5: What changes are being proposed in Mexico's work week legislation?
Judge Luddington faces a jury trial over the alcohol-related incident in May. This week, the judge took a voluntary leave of absence pending the resolution of the state charge against him. Fix the Court says the judge continued to hear federal cases for months after his arrest. and was assigned dozens of new cases.
The district court says it recognizes the seriousness of the matter, and the law gives every citizen the presumption of innocence and due process rights. The Sixth Circuit Appeals Court, which will consider the misconduct complaint, had no comment. Carrie Johnson, NPR News.
A new study shows that birdwatching may improve and enhance cognitive functioning as you age.
Chapter 6: How does birdwatching impact cognitive functioning as we age?
The study published in the Journal of Neuroscience compared the brains of expert birders with those of novices, regardless of age, and found the experts' brains were more dense in areas related to attention and perception. This is NPR News.