Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. The Munich Security Conference is underway. Several Democratic lawmakers are there, eager to assure European leaders that once President Trump leaves office, they can depend on the United States again. And here's Michelle Kellerman has more.

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasier-Cortez made her debut here, and she's blaming

the Trump administration of ripping up democratic norms and turning the world into what she

calls an age of authoritarian who are carving up the world.

Where Donald Trump can command the Western Hemisphere and Latin America as his

personal sandbox, where Putin can saber-rattle around Europe, and for essentially

authoritarians to have their own geographic domains. And she says she was here with other

Democrats offering a different way forward.

And Pierce, Michelle Kellerman, reporting from Munich. The late Russian opposition leader,

Alexei Navalny, likely died from poisoning by a rare frog toxin. That's according to a study

by five European countries into his death in a remote Russian prison nearly two years ago.

And Pierce Charles Mainz has more from Moscow.

The findings were announced by the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands,

and based on samples from Navalny's remains, smuggled out of Russia.

The report says analyses conclusively confirm the presence of epibatidine, a toxin found in

poisoned dart frogs in South America, but not native to Russia itself.

The report says Russia's government had the, quote, means, motive, and opportunity to issue the

poison while Navalny was in prison.

Navalny's widow, Yulian Navalna, said the new findings confirm which she and her husband's supporters

have always insisted.

Devalny was murdered on order of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The Kremlin maintains the opposition leader died from natural causes.

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