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🗓️ 14 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:11.5 | On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:14.9 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. |
| 0:18.5 | The U.S. and Denmark continue to have what a Danish official |
| 0:22.1 | calls a fundamental disagreement over Greenland. But NPR's Franco Ordonez reports the two sides are |
| 0:28.2 | creating a working group to try to reconcile their differences. Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary |
| 0:33.3 | of State Marco Rubio met with officials from Denmark and Greenland amid President Trump's |
| 0:38.1 | ongoing calls to control the Arctic territory. Trump sees Greenland as a national security issue, |
| 0:44.2 | warning of Russian and Chinese activity in the region, but the Danish foreign minister, |
| 0:48.8 | Lars Lachgmussen, disagrees. It is not a true narrative that we have, you know, Chinese warships all around the place. |
| 0:57.4 | According to our intelligence, we haven't had a Chinese warship in Greenland for a decade or so. |
| 1:07.1 | The minister wants the group to focus on addressing U.S. security concerns while respecting the red lines of Denmark. |
| 1:14.3 | Franco, Ordonez, NPR News, the White House. |
| 1:17.7 | The Supreme Court ruled today that political candidates can now challenge voting laws ahead of elections. |
| 1:23.5 | Until now, candidates had to prove they were already harmed by a law before they could sue. |
| 1:27.8 | NPR's Ashley Lopez reports. |
| 1:29.7 | Before this ruling, challenges to election laws brought by candidates wouldn't be taken up by courts until voting had already started or in many cases until it was over. |
| 1:38.7 | In a seven to two ruling, though, justices argued that requiring proof of harm was forcing many of these challenges to be |
| 1:45.1 | addressed shortly before Election Day or often after. Some legal experts say this was a correct |
| 1:50.1 | decision by the High Court that will allow many of these disputes to be resolved in advance of an |
| 1:54.7 | election. Other legal experts say that this ruling could open the floodgates for candidates |
| 1:59.4 | challenging rules they don't like, |
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