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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. |
| 0:14.7 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. |
| 0:18.9 | President Trump's desire to take over Greenland is related to him |
| 0:22.6 | not getting the Nobel Peace Prize. That's according to text messages released by Norway. Trump told |
| 0:28.8 | the country's prime minister that he no longer feels, quote, an obligation to think purely of peace. |
| 0:34.7 | Trump's messages ratchets up a standoff between Washington and its closest |
| 0:38.8 | allies over his threats to take over Greenland, as NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben explains. |
| 0:43.9 | On Saturday, Trump posted that he is going to impose 10% tariffs on goods from eight |
| 0:49.3 | European countries starting February 1st, then raise that tariff to 25% in June. And Trump said he will |
| 0:55.7 | keep those on until a deal is reached for the U.S. to acquire Greenland. Now, I've asked the White |
| 1:01.1 | House, by the way, for any additional information. What law authorizes this? Is an executive order |
| 1:06.4 | coming? We haven't heard anything back yet. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reporting. |
| 1:16.7 | A group of prominent Catholic leaders in the United States is denouncing recent foreign policy moves by the Trump administration. |
| 1:18.7 | NPR's Jason DeRose reports. |
| 1:28.2 | U.S. Cardinals from Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Newark write in a statement that the building of sustainable peace is, quote, being reduced to partisan categories that encourage polarization and destructive policies. The statement points to U.S. actions related to Venezuela, |
| 1:34.0 | Ukraine, and Greenland. Cardinal Shupich of Chicago writes that, quote, as pastors entrusted with |
| 1:39.1 | the teaching of our people, we cannot stand by while decisions are made that condemn millions to |
| 1:43.9 | lives trapped permanently at the edge of existence. |
| 1:47.0 | The statement comes as Pope Leo recently put forth a Vatican foreign policy agenda calling for just and sustainable relations among nations. |
| 1:55.0 | Jason DeRose, NPR News. |
| 1:57.0 | Hundreds of millions of people are now consulting chat GPT weekly for advice on health, according to the apps maker Open AI. |
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