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🗓️ 19 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. On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:14.7 | Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump's push for the U.S. to take over Greenland is |
| 0:22.3 | escalating. NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports the Norwegian Prime Minister confirmed he received a message |
| 0:27.9 | from Trump about the Nobel Prize being a factor in his approach. On Saturday, President Trump |
| 0:33.3 | announced new tariffs on eight European nations, pledging to increase the rate if a deal for the U.S. |
| 0:38.7 | to acquire Greenland is not reached. Norway's prime minister said in a statement that he had sent a text |
| 0:44.0 | to Trump on behalf of himself and the president of Finland to express opposition to those tariffs. |
| 0:49.8 | In it, he urged de-escalation and proposed a call to discuss. According to the prime minister, |
| 0:55.1 | President Trump responded by saying that because Norway did not give him a Nobel Peace Prize, |
| 0:59.7 | he no longer feels, quote, an obligation to think purely of peace. The Nobel Prize is awarded |
| 1:05.7 | by an independent committee, not the Norwegian government. Barbara Sprint and Pierre News, Copenhagen. |
| 1:12.1 | The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active duty soldiers to be ready in case of a possible |
| 1:17.7 | deployment to Minnesota as the Trump administration continues its immigration crackdown there. |
| 1:22.8 | President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a rarely used law that allows |
| 1:26.9 | him to send troops to enforce the law. |
| 1:29.6 | The soldiers are based in Alaska and specialize in operating in Arctic conditions. |
| 1:33.9 | Minnesota Public Radio's Clay Masters has more. |
| 1:36.4 | We should be clear that the troops are on standby, and this comes as Governor Walls has directed the Minnesota National Guard to prepare for possible deployment to assist |
| 1:44.5 | local law enforcement and emergency management agencies. I mean, it really remains to be seen |
| 1:50.3 | what that would look like to have two units potentially receiving conflicting orders. |
| 1:55.3 | Minnesota Public Radio's claim masters. Israeli forces have launched a new military raid |
| 2:00.5 | in the occupied West Bank. The military |
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