Consider This from NPR - Trump is escalating European tensions. What are the consequences?

President Trump’s insistence that the U.S. acquire Greenland could become a major international crisis.

He's now threatened tariffs on eight NATO allies who have expressed their opposition to the idea, and that is shaking up the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week. 



And more tariffs would increase costs for American businesses at a time when American voters are talking about affordability at home.

Willem Marx reports from Davos, and NPR’s Scott Horsley and Mara Liasson recap the economic and political fallout.

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Native America Calling - Wednesday, January 21, 2026 – Native activists prepare for ongoing resistance and documentation as federal crackdowns expand

In Los Angeles, Chicago, and now Minneapolis, activists, community leaders, and concerned neighbors have organized loose-knit networks of support for what they believe will be a protracted resistance effort against the crackdowns by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. The Powwow Grounds Coffeehouse in Minneapolis is among the locations collecting food, cash, and other support for those filling the streets with whistles, drums, and their own voices. Doing so carries risk. ICE agents shot and killed one person. Many more are injured. At least one Minneapolis restaurant fended off ICE agents who attempted to enter. We’ll hear from Native organizers in cities around the country about what they expect in the weeks and months ahead.

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Robert Rice (White Earth Nation), owner of Pow Wow Grounds

Courtney Cochran (Anishinaabe), artist, filmmaker, and community organizer

Jennifer Marley (San Ildefonso), community organizer and a member of the Total Sovereignty Working Group

Eva Cardenas (Mexica Chicana of Mazahua and Zapotec descent), director of organizing for the NDN Collective, the LANDBACK action network

Joel Garcia (Huichol), artist, cultural organizer, and director of Meztli Projects

 

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Marketplace All-in-One - Worlds apart on generative AI use

People around the world are using AI more than Americans, a new poll finds. About 40% of adults in the U.S. told pollsters that they used generative AI in the last year. In Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates, and India, that number was about 85%. What's driving the divide? But first: a preview of markets before President Donald Trump's speech at Davos, and a look at the struggle between the Trump administration and the Fed.

CBS News Roundup - 01/21/2026 | World News Roundup

President Trump at Swiss summit in bid to get Greenland. Here comes another winter blast. Timothy Busfield gets released. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has those stories and more on the World News Roundup podcast.



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Marketplace All-in-One - Will Elon Musk buy Europe’s biggest budget airline?

From the BBC World Service: Tech billionaire Elon Musk has picked a fight with Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair; after O'Leary said Ryanair wouldn't be offering Musk's Starlink satellite services, Musk floated the idea of buying Ryanair himself. Plus, Lufthansa — one of the world’s largest airline groups — says that airspace closures due to war zones are forcing substantial rerouting of flights, with the ban on using Russian and Ukrainian airspace creating detours of one to two hours.

WSJ What’s News - The World Plots Its Response to an ‘Adversarial’ America

A.M. Edition for Jan. 21. Wary European allies are preparing for President Trump’s arrival at the World Economic Forum today. WSJ’s Washington coverage chief Damian Paletta says the President is very much at peace, being more adversarial with U.S. allies and that he's not going to take no for an answer when it comes to Greenland. Plus, the U.S. shifts military firepower to the Middle East. And, your boss might be lauding the efficiencies of AI, but new research finds chatbots aren’t saving workers much time - if any - at all. Luke Vargas hosts.


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Audio Mises Wire - Israel and Its Relationship to the Islamic State

In the so-called world of strategic alliances, things often are not what they seem to be. It is that way with the Islamic State or ISIS, which supposedly is a deadly enemy of Israel. However, Israel has a symbiotic relationship with Jihadist groups that we cannot ignore.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S12 Bonus: David Sztykman, Hydrolix

David Sztykman lives in Paris, but used to live in New York for a time. He has always been into video, streaming and photography. For the latter, as a kid, his Dad had a film developing lab in their basement, so he spent many hours doing that before digital changed it all. As a student, he used to tinker with open source video streaming libraries, and eventually worked for Alkamai, responsible for the streaming media for Europe (think the Olympics or Super Bowl). Outside of tech, he has 2 kids and they like to do a lot of legos together. But in general, they are outside kids so usually, they like to get out of the house and do active things.

In his prior role, David was consistently alerted about poor performance on the video streaming. He started to dig into the data streaming portion of, to be alerted on shifts in the stream itself. After a few other opportunities, he was approached to build real time CDN observability, for distributed infrastructure.

This is the creation story of Hydrolix.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Peter and the Antichrist, Chapter One: “It’s the End of the World, As We Know It.”

Amid the rarefied air of tech billionaires, Peter Thiel carves a larger-than-life figure in the modern world. To some, he's a philosopher king. To others, a supervillain. One thing's for sure: pretty much everyone is baffled by his continual rhetoric about the 'antichrist' -- so, what exactly does he mean? In the first part of this two-part series, Ben, Matt and Noel dive into the deep, Biblical waters surrounding a man who, according to critics, seeks to upend democracy as we know it.

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