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President Trump took the stage today in a room full of world leaders and demanded that the U.S. assume ownership of Greenland. He issued several explicit and implicit threats if his wishes were not granted. “All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland,” the president said during a lengthy speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Hours later, after meeting with Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, Trump said he had reached a framework agreement over the future of Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark. As a result, he dropped his threat to impose tariffs on countries that refused to heed…
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President Trump took the stage today in a room full of world leaders and demanded that the U.S. assume ownership of Greenland. He issued several explicit and implicit threats if his wishes were not granted. “All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland,” the president said during a lengthy speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Hours later, after meeting with Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, Trump said he had reached a framework agreement over the future of Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark. As a result, he dropped his threat to impose tariffs on countries that refused to heed his territorial demands.
The exact details of the agreement were unclear. But Trump’s announcement followed a NATO meeting where top military officers discussed a compromise in which Denmark would give the U.S. sovereignty over small pockets of Greenland where the U.S. could build military bases, according to officials familiar with the discussion.
When asked directly about whether the U.S. would own Greenland under the deal, Trump declined to elaborate. However, he said that the agreement “gets us everything we needed to get.”
In related news:
Trump alternately praised and threatened NATO allies during his Davos speech. Here’s a look at the people he targeted, and a fact-check of his claims.
The president swiped at Canada, which he said “should be grateful also, but they’re not.”
Rutte said he didn’t want the discussion around Greenland to overshadow Europe’s largest security issue: Ukraine.
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Justices seem likely to reject Trump’s Fed firing effort
After two hours of lively arguments today, a majority of Supreme Court justices appeared poised to halt Trump’s attempt to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board.
Conservative justices, who have repeatedly allowed the president to oust leaders of other independent agencies, questioned whether the allegations against Cook were serious enough to allow the president to remove her. Accepting the president’s view, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said, would “weaken, if not shatter, the independence of the Federal Reserve.”
The justices appeared likely to return the case to the lower courts, pausing the president’s broader goal of remaking the Fed. Here are the biggest takeaways from the hearing.
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A harsh winter storm is looming across the U.S.
A potent winter storm is expected to sweep across a large swath of the U.S. at the end of this week. But where the worst of it will hit is still unclear.
Winter storm watches are in place from New Mexico, Oklahoma and Central Texas through much of Tennessee, as well as in Arkansas, southern Kansas and northern Louisiana. Sleet and freezing rain may move from the southern Plains through to the Carolinas. The region from the southern Rockies and the Plains and east through the Mid-Atlantic could see lots of snow.
Cold air is expected to surge into the Southeast tomorrow, ahead of snow and ice from Friday into the weekend. Here’s what we know.
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A cheating scandal has rocked an Olympic sport
Just weeks before the start of the Olympics, a cheating scandal has cast a cloud over the ski jumping team from Norway, a country that has dominated the Winter Games for a century.
After the release of incriminating footage by a whistle-blower, two former coaches and a former suit technician for the team admitted to conspiring to manipulate the suits of top jumpers, making the crotches more aerodynamic. Matthew Futterman of The Athletic joined the “Pablo Torre Finds Out” podcast to walk through the bizarre details. Watch it here.
More top news
**Immigration: **An operation targeting Somali immigrants is underway in Maine.
**Minnesota: **The Pentagon ordered several hundred military police troops to prepare for a possible deployment to the state in the event that Trump invokes the Insurrection Act.
**Media: **A federal judge ordered the government not to review materials seized during the search of a Washington Post reporter’s home.
**Venezuela: **Polls taken in several Latin American countries found a majority supported the capture of Nicolás Maduro, the country’s former president.
**Education: **The administration withdrew its challenge to a ruling halting its plan to strip funding from schools with D.E.I. programs.
**Energy: **Japan has turned to nuclear energy to power data centers and chip factories, and the country just restarted the massive Fukushima Daiichi plant, which melted down in 2011.
**Business: **Uber is facing pressure from lawmakers and investors, as well as more than 3,000 lawsuits, over its record of handling sexual assault cases.
**New York City: **Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner, is from a prominent business family. Zohran Mamdani, the mayor, is a democratic socialist. So far, they are getting along.
TIME TO UNWIND
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A beloved Paris cinema gets a second life
The movie theater La Clef was, for years, considered one of Paris’s leading art-house movie theaters. But audiences dwindled as streaming became more popular. In 2018, it closed its doors.
A handful of former employees wouldn’t accept that fate. They squatted in the building for years and eventually raised enough money from the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese to buy the building and reopen this month. La Clef now bills itself as Paris’s only volunteer-run cinema, with no fixed ticket prices and entry by donation.
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Try our new word game
My colleagues at New York Times Games just released Crossplay, a two-player word game in which you and a friend (or anyone from around the world) take turns building off each other’s words, earning points and competing to win. It’s available now on the new Crossplay app, which you can download here.
Once you’ve got the hang of it, check out Cross Bot, a tool that analyzes your play and guides you through strategies to sharpen your skills.
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Dinner table topics
**A dance invention: **A new ballet shoe with sneaker technology might be a game changer.
“I love this house”: Take a look inside the expansive Brooklyn brownstone where the theater legend Kathleen Chalfant hosts friends and artists.
**Political debate: **Is America ready for a female president? Michelle Obama and Gretchen Whitmer disagree.
**Bathing suits?: **Europeans have some thoughts on American sauna culture.
WHAT TO DO TONIGHT
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ONE LAST THING
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A new chapter in tennis clothes
At this week’s Australian Open, Naomi Osaka captured everyone’s attention before she scored a single point. She showed up to her first-round match wearing an outfit you’d expect to see on a runway: a frilly dress, swishy pleated pants, a white wide-brimmed hat with a gauzy veil and a parasol. Osaka said it was inspired by a jellyfish.
The look piqued the interest of my colleagues who cover fashion. One said he “kind of loved it”; another saw it as a distraction. But they all were more interested in what it meant for the future of sports clothing.
Have a trendsetting evening.
Thanks for reading. I’ll be back tomorrow. — Matthew
Eli Cohen was our photo editor.
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Matthew Cullen is the lead writer of The Evening, a Times newsletter covering the day’s top stories every weekday.
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