Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theschmidt.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump is attacking Europe again, calling America's allies weak and decaying. NPR's Mara Liason reports.
In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, Trump denigrated the Western European democracies that until now have been the United States' staunchest allies. Trump said Europe doesn't know what to do. He blamed European leaders for failing to control immigration or stopping the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
They have to play ball if they don't read agreements, potential agreements. It's not easy with Russia because Russia has the upper hand.
Trump is pushing Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, to accept his latest peace plan, which includes several core Russian demands. It would force Ukraine to give up territory to Russia, put limits on Ukraine's military, and restrict the country's sovereignty. Mara Liason, NPR News.
In Boulder, Colorado, high school students are building homes for low-income residents. The program's helping to address both the needs for affordable housing and a shortage of skilled workers in the building trades. Sam Fuqua has the story.
A pair of two-story modular homes are being hoisted by crane onto foundations at an old mobile home park. They were built a few miles away in a 32,000-square-foot factory on land owned by the Boulder Valley School District.
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Chapter 2: What criticism did President Trump make about Europe?
The city of Boulder built the factory and pays for the materials. The local Habitat for Humanity chapter manages the program. All the groups involved say the three-way partnership is the first of its kind in the nation. Students get hands-on experience building homes, course credit, and a head start on careers in the building trades. An industry group reports the U.S.
will need 500,000 more workers to keep up with demand. For NPR News, I'm Sam Fuqua in Boulder, Colorado.
The Environmental Protection Agency under President Trump is downplaying on its website the role people play in climate change. NPR's Jeff Brady reports the site instead highlights natural processes that increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and warm the planet.
Until recently, an EPA website labeled causes of climate change relayed the scientific consensus that humans burning fossil fuels have made the planet hotter. Now, that same site focuses on things like volcanic activity and changes in the Earth's rotation.
EPA Press Secretary Bridget Hirsch says in a statement that the Trump EPA is focused on protecting human health and the environment, quote, not left-wing political agendas. As such, this agency no longer takes marching orders from the climate cult, unquote. Trump has called climate change a hoax. The EPA says the old webpages are still available to the public via archives. Jeff Brady, NPR News.
The first of a series of powerful storms is slamming the Pacific Northwest, dumping heavy rain and swelling rivers. Meanwhile, the Midwest is expecting a winter storm. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Immigration officials say about 400 immigrant children were detained longer than the recommended 20-day limit, according to a filing in a federal lawsuit aimed at protecting children.
Advocates for the children at a family detention center in Texas are questioning whether ICE has the authority to keep children there for long-term periods, including five who say they were held for 168 days. The largest display of nutcrackers in the U.S. is housed in a museum in Washington state. NPR's Vanessa Romo takes us inside.
The two-story jewel of whimsy and obsession is called the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum. It houses more than 9,000 handcrafted nutcrackers. And presiding over it all is Arlene Wagner, who just celebrated her 101st birthday. She says she's been collecting all manner of nutcrackers since 1976.
And in 1995, with a collection of 7,000, she and her husband thought it was time to share it with the public.
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