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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Loko Rasmussen says President Trump's text to Norway's prime minister linking his stance on Greenland to last year's decision not to award him the Nobel Peace PR was not helpful.
Lars Loko Rasmussen (0:32)
It was disrupted by the statement from the president. And that's a reality of life. And that's why it's so important that all our allies in the NATO alliance in the European Union stand up for these principles to show the American president you have a desire, you have a vision, you have a request, but you will never be able to achieve that by putting pressure on us. That signal is of crucial importance in order to, I would say, to push the Americans back into the meeting room, as we agreed last week.
Giles Snyder (1:07)
In the text message, Trump said he no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace. But he posted a social media message a short time ago saying he spoke by phone with NATO secretary general and agreed to a meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where he is due to speak Wednesday at the World Economic Forum. Homeland Security Department Facing increasing scrutiny from immigration advocates, they say the agency is trying to recruit local police officers in Minnesota and in other states. Here's NPR's Windsor Johnston.
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Naina Gupta is policy director with the American Immigration Council. She says police departments in Minnesota have told her organization that the DHS is trying to lure officers away from local agencies to join the federal ranks.
Naina Gupta (1:49)
We know that they are looking, you know, as desperately as possible to find people to join the agency. And poaching from local police agencies is a fast way to do that, especially in the areas where they're looking to scale up immigration enforcement.
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In a statement to npr, the DHS says many of its new recruits are former law enforcement officers, military or former ICE officers who retired or quit under the Biden administration. Windsor Johnston, NPR News.
Giles Snyder (2:21)
In Michigan, more than 100 vehicles crashed into each other or slid off the interstate of snow from the Great Lakes blanketed the state police close the highway in both directions southwest of Grand Rapids. Patrick center with member station WGVU has more.