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NPR News: 02-22-2026 7PM EST

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🗓️ 23 February 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.

0:14.9

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. Oman says the next round of talks between the U.S. and Iran over its

0:23.5

nuclear program will take place this week in Geneva. The talks Thursday are aimed at averting

0:29.5

what Iran has warned could spark a regional war if the U.S. attacks. President Trump has been

0:34.9

pushing for concessions from Iran, and he's built up the largest U.S. military presence in the Middle East in decades.

0:41.7

But it's still not clear if he'll follow through on his threats to attack Iran.

0:45.7

In Piers Mara Liason has more.

0:47.5

In the past, Trump has shown that he prefers military actions that you could call one end done,

0:52.0

a quick bombing rate on Iran's nuclear facilities or a

0:55.2

quick raid into Venezuela to nab Nicholas Maduro. We don't know if he has the stomach for a long

1:00.6

protracted fight, and if he wants to change the regime in Iran, that's what it would entail.

1:06.6

MPRs Mara Lison reporting. The Greenlandic Prime Minister has rejected President Trump's offer to send a hospital ship to the country.

1:15.5

Terry Schultz reports Trump announced the ship's deployment on Truth Social,

1:19.8

alleging there are, quote, many people who are sick and not being taken care of in Greenland.

1:25.3

Greenland's Prime Minister, Yens Frederick Nielsen, says his answer is no thank you to President

1:30.3

Trump's intention to send a U.S. hospital ship to the semi-autonomous Danish island.

1:35.0

Nielsen explains in a Facebook post that a fundamental part of society in Greenland is that

1:39.2

there is a public health service where treatment is freely available to all citizens.

1:43.4

He adds that Greenlanders are

1:44.9

always open to dialogue and cooperation, but he suggests a conversation rather than what he termed

1:50.1

a more or less random outburst on social media. It's not clear if Trump's post saying the

1:55.2

hospital ship is on its way was sparked by the medical evacuation of a U.S. service member from a

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