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In the news today: NATO would end if the U.S. took over Greenland, Denmark's prime minister says; marking five years since the Jan. 6 Capitol attack; and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes to shut itself down. Also, a rare whale species is having more babies this year, an encouraging sign. |
President Donald Trump on Air Force One, Sunday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) |
A US takeover of Greenland would mark the end of NATO, Danish prime minister says after US military operation in Venezuela |
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of NATO. Greenland is a semiautonomous territory of the Danish kingdom and thus part of NATO. Her comments came in response to President Donald Trump's renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island to come under U.S. control in the aftermath of the weekend military operation in Venezuela that left the world stunned. Read more. |
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Fifth anniversary of Jan. 6 brings fresh division to the Capitol |
Five years ago, the outgoing President Donald Trump told a crowd of his supporters to head to the Capitol in protest as Congress was affirming the 2020 election victory for Democrat Joe Biden. A short time later, the world watched as the seat of U.S. power descended into chaos. On the fifth anniversary of Jan. 6, 2021 there is no official event to memorialize what happened. Read more. |
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Trump will meet privately with House Republicans at the Kennedy Center, which the president has rebranded to carry his own name, for a policy forum. Democrats will hold a hearing with witnesses to the violence and later gather on the Capitol steps to mark the memory of what happened.The political parties refuse to agree to a shared history of the events.
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence |
Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967. Read more. |
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CPB had been winding down since Congress acted last summer to defund its operations at the encouragement of President Donald Trump. "CPB's final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks," said Patricia Harrison, the organization's president and CEO.
Many Republicans have long accused public broadcasting, particularly its news programming, of being biased toward liberals but it wasn't until the second Trump administration that those criticisms were turned into action.
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A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) |
A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births
The North Atlantic right whale, one of the world's rarest whale species, is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons. But experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of extinction. The whales have gained more than 7% of their 2020 population, according to scientists who study them. |
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