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NPR News: 01-19-2026 6PM EST

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

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NPR News: 01-19-2026 6PM EST

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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,

0:07.4

working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org.

0:14.8

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.

0:18.7

The Prime Minister of Norway says he got a message from President Trump

0:22.7

about rising tensions over Greenland. Trump reportedly said he no longer felt obligated to pursue peace

0:29.6

after not winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The Peace Prize is awarded by an independent committee,

0:35.0

not the Norwegian government. Trump has now imposed a 10% tariff on goods from eight European countries that oppose his efforts to take control of the Arctic Island.

0:44.3

NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports.

0:45.9

Over the weekend, European nations put out a joint statement of solidarity with Denmark and Greenland

0:51.6

and said President Trump's bellicose talk and threats to impose

0:55.0

further tariffs on nations that object to his Greenland plans risks damaging the transatlantic

1:00.4

alliance. Celia Belin is head of the Paris office of the European Council on foreign relations.

1:05.7

Europe feels more alone that it's ever been, but also feels a great sense, I think, of solidarity and collective

1:12.9

determination to push back. Belan says Europeans could invoke countersankions and the EU could also

1:19.2

activate for the first time an anti-coercion instrument to restrict U.S. access to the lucrative

1:25.1

EU market. Eleanor Beardsley and Pierre News, Paris.

1:28.5

Hackers disrupted Iranian state TV to air footage supporting the exiled crown prince.

1:34.6

The video urged security forces not to target civilians. It comes amid nationwide protests and a crackdown

1:40.6

that has killed at least 3,900 people, according to human rights observers.

1:45.0

Iran's foreign minister had his invitation to the World Economic Forum withdrawn over the killings.

1:50.4

The Pentagon has put 1,500 soldiers on standby to possibly deploy to Minneapolis.

1:55.6

Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is facing increasing scrutiny from immigration

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