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Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, Venezuelan officials say at least two dozen security officers were killed in the U.S. raid that captured ousted leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Previously, officials in Cuba said 32 of their personnel were also killed in the attack. NPR's Kerry Kahn reports. Venezuela officials are toughening their rhetoric against the U.S. attack. In announcing the death toll, Venezuela's Attorney General, Tariq William Saab, said that the quote, war crimes against officers and civilians would be investigated. The hardline interior minister Diosdado Cabello joined pro-government marchers in a large boister rally in Caracas, condemning what he called the kidnapping of Venezuela's rightful leader. While acting President Delci

Rodriguez decried the, quote, terrible military aggression of the U.S. and in an apparent rebuke of President Trump's threat, she stay in line with U.S. demands, she said, quote, personally to those who threaten me, my destiny is not determined by them, but by God. Kerry Kahn and PR News, Bogota, Colombia. European leaders have issued a joint statement saying that Greenland's future can only be decided by its people and by Denmark, which controls the world's largest island. Comments by the Trump administration got more appointed after the U.S. raid into Venezuela. Rufus Gifford is the former U.S. ambassador to Denmark.

He says Greenland is different than Venezuela. Gifford says using the U.S. military to take over Greenland would be a move against Denmark, a NATO ally, and against NATO's charter. The premise of Article 5 is that if you attack one of us, you attack all of us. So the argument that we need Greenland for national security doesn't hold water. The White House said yesterday that President Trump and his advisors are talking about a range of options to acquire Greenland. Hundreds of National Guard troops are being returned from federal service to their respective states. They were called into service to support the Trump administration's efforts to target illegal immigration. Oregon Public Broadcasting's Conrad Wilson has more.

U.S. Northern Command confirmed 500 federalized National Guard troops in California, Illinois, and Oregon are being demobilized and will return to their home units. The Guard members were federalized over the objections of all three governors, which led to lawsuits, and court orders blocking troop deployments. Late last month, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that blocked the Trump administration from deploying troops in Chicago. Dustin Bueller is special counsel to Oregon. It's highly likely that the president cannot use that same statute here. But speaking over the weekend, President Trump once again invoked Portland

and didn't rule out using the Insurrection Act to send troops in the future. For NPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson in Portland. On Wall Street and pre-market trading, Dow futures are flat. You're listening to NPR. As the Trump administration withdraws hundreds of national guard troops around the country, it's also ramping up immigration efforts in Minneapolis. The Department of Homeland Security says it has sent thousands of immigration agents into Minneapolis on an operation to target illegal immigration.

President Trump has been saying, without providing evidence, that Somali and Somali Americans who run daycares are defrauding taxpayers. computer chipmaker NVIDIA is ramping up production of a kind of artificial intelligence chip. The Trump administration recently approved it for sale to China. NPR's John Rewich reports the tech giant says demand is strong.

The chips are called H-200s. They're a type of graphics processing unit that's widely used to run AI models. The U.S. government had banned them from being sold to China, but last month the Trump administration did in about-face, giving NVIDIA a green light to sell H-200s to select customers.

in China. Speaking at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says Chinese demand is high and the company has fired up its H-200 supply chain in anticipation. He says Nvidia is working out the last licensing issues with the Trump administration. Beijing will also have to approve purchases of the chips by Chinese companies, but Huang says he expects that to happen quietly and orders to flow once the U.S. licensing is worked out. John Rewich, NPR News, Las Vegas. Today is the anniversary of the start of the deadly Los Angeles fires. These killed more than 30 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures.

People are still trying to rebuild, but progress has been exceptionally slow. This is NPR.