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The News Roundup For January 16, 2026

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🗓️ 17 January 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration sent hundreds more ICE agents to Minnesota this week as protests continue. President Donald Trump referred to the demonstrators as “professional agitators” and threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Diplomats from Denmark and Greenland traveled to the White House to meet with Vice President JD Vance after President Trump once again threatened to annex Greenland following major foreign intervention in Venezuela.

Meanwhile, protesters in Iran are attempting to keep up their demonstrations against the country’s theocracy after a week of bloody crackdowns by authorities.

In an interview with Reuters this week, Donald Trump says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the one holding up peace negotiations for the war in Ukraine, not Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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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.

0:14.6

Hey, it's Todd, your host for this edition of the News Roundup. Just a quick heads up before we start the show. The news is constantly changing and things might have changed by the time you hear this episode.

0:25.9

Stay up to date with the news by listening to your local NPR member station and by visiting NPR.org for all the latest.

0:33.2

Thanks for listening.

0:34.3

Enjoy the show.

0:42.9

Music Thanks for listening. Enjoy the show. You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Todd Zwillick, and this is the News Roundup,

0:47.7

and this is the sound of Minneapolis this week.

0:54.1

The agents threw protesters to the ground and shot us with pepperball. this week.

0:59.6

The agents threw protesters to the ground and shot us with pepper balls and yanked people from the crowd. One of the agents pulled out his real firearm and aimed it at me from point-blank range

1:06.2

while I had my hands open and out to my sides. They came around the car surrounded us.

1:11.1

At no point where we instructed to exit the vehicle,

1:13.9

we just had our hands in their air as they yelled at us.

1:17.3

They proceeded to smash the windows,

1:20.1

and then the gentleman opened the door

1:22.1

because it was unlocked after smashing the window

1:23.9

and tore me out and I was arrested.

1:25.7

And I was arrested.

1:36.9

The ice agent that had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said,

1:39.8

you guys got to stop obstructing us.

1:43.3

That's why that lesbian is dead, verbatim.

1:47.8

Sounds and voices from Minneapolis, thanks to MPR news and to you, our own 1A listeners. Jonathan Aguilar Garcia, 17 years old, says he's a

1:55.7

United States citizen. He is a United States citizen. Seen on video tackled at his job at Target and stuffed into an

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