Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Three people die in six weeks at the country’s largest immigration detention center in El Paso, raising urgent questions about medical care, oversight, and the role of private contractors.
And Indiana completes one of the most improbable turnarounds in college football history, capping a perfect season with a national championship win over Miami.
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(0:00) Introduction
(01:58) Trump's World Stage
(05:51) El Paso Detention Deaths
(09:17) Indiana College Football Champions
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump heads to the World Economic Forum in Davos with threats of tariffs and more talk of buying Greenland. |
| 0:08.4 | He's also selling membership to his Board of Peace. So what does Trump plan to tell other world leaders? |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Steven Skiy with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:26.5 | Three people have died in just six weeks at this country's largest immigration detention center, |
| 0:29.6 | a tent camp run by a private contractor in Texas. |
| 0:32.0 | They're being denied access to medical attention. |
| 0:34.9 | What are lawyers and advocates seeing inside? |
| 0:38.9 | And Indiana pulled off one of the wildest turnarounds in college football history, |
| 0:40.8 | winning the national championship. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm so happy for our fans. |
| 0:45.3 | Words can't describe it. |
| 0:48.9 | The Hoosiers finished undefeated beating Miami 27 to 21. |
| 0:50.2 | How did they do it? |
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| 1:22.1 | We have a story of very personal diplomacy. President Trump has been texting world leaders and they have been texting him. |
| 1:28.9 | In one message Trump told Norway's prime minister that he's trying to seize Greenland in part because he did not receive a Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1:33.9 | That was Trump's explanation for shaking the most important U.S. alliance and disrupting the world order. |
| 1:36.5 | Overnight, Trump shared messages he received. |
| 1:43.2 | One comes from France's president who tries flattery on Trump, but then raises the issue of Greenland and proposes to discuss it over dinner. Now world leaders meet face to face of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. NPR White House correspondent Daniel Kurtzleben is covering all this. Daniel, good morning. Hey, good morning. What's the U.S. delegation doing in Europe? Well, today, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessens will be speaking in Davos, then Trump is scheduled to talk on Wednesday. |
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