FBI Search Journalist's Home, U.S. Greenland Talks, Mental Health Funding
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
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Summary
U.S. talks with Denmark and Greenland end without a deal on Greenland’s future, but a new working group forms as allies push back on President Trump’s security-driven claims.
And after widespread confusion and backlash, the Trump administration reverses course and restores roughly $2 billion in funding for mental health and addiction programs nationwide.
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| 0:00.0 | The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter as part of a leak investigation. |
| 0:06.6 | Press advocates warned this crosses a dangerous line. |
| 0:09.6 | There's a whole pattern in this administration of trying to undermine an independent press. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Michelle Martin with A. Martinez, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:18.8 | After a meeting with the president's top aides, Denmark's foreign minister says Trump still wants Greenland. |
| 0:25.7 | It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering over Greenland. |
| 0:32.2 | We made it very, very clear that this is not in the interest of the kingdom. |
| 0:35.7 | How far is the president willing to push American allies? |
| 0:38.7 | And the White House cut billions in funding for mental health and addiction programs. |
| 0:42.5 | The next day, it restored it. |
| 0:44.2 | So what does the whiplash say about the future of public health under this administration? |
| 0:48.0 | Stay with us. |
| 0:48.5 | We've got all the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:56.9 | Some media executives are calling the FBI search of a reporter's home an alarming intrusion into the freedom of the press. |
| 1:03.6 | That search of a Washington Post reporter's house happened on Wednesday as part of the Trump administration's investigation of a leak. |
| 1:10.0 | NPR media correspondent David F Folkenflick joins us. |
| 1:13.0 | David, all right, load us down with some details. |
| 1:15.6 | Well, as the Washington Post itself has reported, it stems from the government's case against |
| 1:20.0 | a contractor named O'Reilly Perez-Lugonez. |
| 1:23.2 | He was charged in Maryland by federal authorities with unlawfully retaining national |
| 1:27.3 | defense information. The post reporter involved is Hannah Natanson. Yeah. was charged in Maryland by federal authorities with unlawfully retaining national defense |
| 1:27.7 | information. The post reporter involved is Hannah Natanson. Her home yesterday morning in Virginia |
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