Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump says he won't use military force to

try to acquire Greenland. He's also backing down from his threat to impose new tariffs on European

nations that oppose his ambitions to take control of the island. This comes after a discussion with

the head of NATO, as NPR's Tamara Keith explains. The NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta has been something of a Trump whisperer in this second

term, largely by piling on praise. And the two met just hours after Trump's speech.

And with cameras rolling, Ruta told Trump it pained him to think that the president doubted

NATO's commitment to the U.S.

Trump now says they have a concept of a deal, though there was no mention of the U.S.

actually owning Greenland, as he had been demanding.

He dodged questions about that, simply saying it would be an infinite deal.

NPR's Tamara Keith reporting, President Trump has lately downplayed the possibility of sending military forces to Minnesota, but a military police battalion in North Carolina has been

put on alert, as NPR's Aquil Lawrence reports. A U.S. official who is not authorized to speak

publicly has confirmed to NPR that an Army military police battalion stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina,

has received a prepare-to-deploy order for Minnesota. That's in addition to the 1,500 soldiers

with the Army's 11th Airborne Division in Alaska told last week to ready themselves to support

the Trump administration's massive ice deployment in the Twin Cities.

Protests have continued in Minneapolis for two weeks since an ice agent shot to death Renee Maclin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three.

The Trump administration is not investigating the shooting, but has open investigations

into Democratic Minnesota government officials for allegedly blocking federal immigration enforcement.

Quill Lawrence NPR News.

The House Oversight Committee has approved a resolution to hold former President Clinton

and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress.

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