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This message comes from Data Bricks, the data and AI company. Are your AI agents working? Most aren't reliable for business. You need AI that's accurate. Agent Bricks, AI agents grounded in your data and built for your goals. Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force 1 for Tuesday's trip to Detroit, President Trump did not sound worried when he was asked about Iranian threats to retaliate,

against U.S. forces if he moves to intervene amid the violent protests that have engulfed the country. Iran said that the last time I blew him up with the nuclear capability, which they don't have any longer. So Iran said that the last time they better behave. During his speech to the Detroit Economic Club, Trump encouraged Iranian protesters to keep demonstrating and said that help is on its way. He did not offer details. Casualties have not been verified, but the U.S.-based human rights activist news agency. says the number of deaths when the protests now top 2,500 and nearly 17,000 have been detained. Following President Trump's recent threats to take control of Greenland,

NPR's Franco Ordonez reports on Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio's meeting tomorrow with the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland. The Danish officials requested the meeting with the Secretary of State Marco Rubio after President Trump renewed his push to take over Greenland. by military force if necessary. President Trump and his top aides have repeatedly claimed that control of Greenland is a national security issue for the United States, citing Russian and Chinese activity in the region. He claims that if the U.S. doesn't take control of the territory, Russia or China will,

and that he can't allow that to happen. Greenland's prime minister says the island territory wants to remain with Denmark and will face a geopolitical crisis if it has to choose between the U.S. and Denmark. The Danish Prime Minister says the future of NATO is at stake. Franco, Ordojanez. NPR News. In Minnesota, at least five prosecutors have resigned amid turmoil over how the Trump administration is handling last week's fatal shooting by an ICE agent of 37-year-old Renee Maclin Good. The resignations include Minnesota's top federal fraud attorney.

New York's Democratic governor is proposing more restrictions on federal immigration agents operating in the state. Walter Ruthman of Member Station WNYC reports on Governor Kathy Hockel using her annual state of the state address to condemn immigration and customs enforcement. New York already has several laws limiting state and local police from assisting ICE in civil immigration arrests. Now Hockel wants to bar immigration agents from entering schools, hospitals, and houses of worship without an official warrant. New York will not allow the use of state resources to assist in federal immigration raids on people. who have not committed serious crimes.

Hockel is also supporting a proposal that would allow people to sue ICE agents in state court for injuries or property damage. Republicans say police need to be able to work with ICE to enforce the law. For NPR News, I'm Walter Wuthman in Albany, New York. This is NPR News. Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. A family spokesperson says she died Tuesday under hospice care in Texas. She was 86. Colvin was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for not giving up her bus seat to a white woman

months before Rosa Parks did the same thing, as NPR's Debbie Elliott reports. Claudeette Colvin was just 15 years old in March of 1955 when a white bus driver ordered the black teenager to offer her seat to a white woman. She refused. She told NPR in a 2009 interview that she'd paid her bus fare and had a right to her seat. All I do remember is that I wasn't going to walk off the bus voluntarily. She was taken off in handcuffs and jailed. Nine months later, Rosa Parks' arrest sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.

Colvin remained active, becoming a key plaintiff in the landmark federal lawsuit that dismantled segregated public transportation. Debbie Elliott, NPR News. A prominent teacher's union says it will no longer use Elon Muffalo. X social media platform. The American Federation of Teachers cites concerns over the AI chatbot called GROC. AFT President Randy Weingarten told Reuters, the recent proliferation of explicit and non-consensual images has made the site unusable. Comedian Trevor Noah set to host a Grammy Awards for a six consecutive year. The Recording Academy announced Noah's return to the award show Tuesday. The Grammys are to be handed out in Los Angeles on February 1st. This is NPR News.

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