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Ep 325 Trump Doubles Down on Greenland in Davos and California Reaches Clean Air Vehicle Goals

Headlines From The Times

L.A. Times Studios

News, Daily News, Society & Culture, The Times, California

4.1544 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

President Trump spoke at Davos on Wednesday morning, reaffirming his desire to take over Greenland, which has been an autonomous territory of Denmark for more than 300 years; world leaders, though, are pushing back on Trump's plan. Meanwhile, one of the biggest stories in Hollywood just took another turn. Netflix is amending its $72 billion bid of Warner Brothers Discovery to pay the full amount in cash rather than a mix of cash and stock. And for months, people living in Hancock Park in the Wilshire area of Los Angeles say their neighborhood has been left in the dark after copper thieves stripped wiring from streetlights, leaving them in the dark. Why are people stealing copper? Well, the metal is a hot commodity. In business, a shop on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles is selling thrifted clothes and beauty items from influencers to combat fast fashion, and California Governor Gavin Newsom announces that the state reached its clean air vehicle goals last year, which were set in 2010 by then Governor Jerry Brown. Read more at LATimes.com.

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0:00.0

This is an LA Times Studios podcast.

0:03.0

Hi, I'm Faith Pino, and you're listening to headlines from LA Times Studios.

0:14.0

Here are some of today's top stories from the Los Angeles Times.

0:18.0

We start in Switzerland, where President Trump spoke at Davos on Wednesday morning.

0:24.6

But now what I'm asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located, that can play a vital role in world peace and world protection.

0:37.3

The president there reaffirming his desire to take over Greenland,

0:41.3

which has been an autonomous territory of Denmark for more than 300 years.

0:46.3

Now, world leaders are pushing back on Trump's plan,

0:50.3

including British Prime Minister Kier Starrmer,

0:53.3

who said he won't yield on his position

0:56.0

that Greenland rightfully belongs to Denmark. And Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who spoke on a

1:03.2

changing world order and offered his support for Greenland. Let me be direct. We are in the midst

1:09.8

of a rupture, not a transition. Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. On Arctic sovereignty, we stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future.

1:31.3

The Davos summit will go on until Friday.

1:34.3

Now it all began with German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab in 1971, as a not-for-profit under the Swiss government,

1:43.3

with the intended goal of promoting stakeholder

1:45.8

capitalism. It's been going on annually since then in the Swiss Mountain Town, Davos, as the

1:52.1

conference for the World Economic Forum. Attended by world leaders, business elites, heads

1:57.7

of charities and international organizations, it's taken on a life and

2:02.5

a status of its own. Meanwhile, possibly the biggest story in Hollywood just took another turn.

2:10.1

Netflix is amending its $72 billion bid of Warner Brothers Discovery. The offer price stays

2:16.6

the same, 2775 a share. But now Netflix will pay

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