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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. After a nearly three-week trial, a Texas jury has acquitted a former Yuvaldi school police officer for his response to the Rob Elementary School shooting. Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies reports. Adrian Gonzalez was the first law enforcement officer to arrive at Rob Elementary on May 24, 2022 when a gunman was shooting at the school. Prosecutors alleged Gonzalez hesitated and did not do his duty. Gunman was able to enter a classroom and kill 19 students and two teachers. After deliberating for more than seven hours, the Nuesis County jury found Gonzalez not guilty in the 29 counts of child endangerment. This was the first trial over the response to the Yuvaldea attack. Former school district police chief Pete Adondo is also expected to be tried. For NPR news, I'm David Martin Davies in San Antonio.

To Europe now where there is a sense of relief after President Trump. said he will not pursue military force to take control of Greenland. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland today, Trump ruled out military force and said on social media that he will no longer impose additional tariffs. But NPR's Eleanor Beardserre reports on concern that the crisis may be far from over. Danish foreign minister Lars Lek-Rasmussen welcomed the fact that Trump now says he won't use force to capture Greenland, but warned that his expansionist ambitions remain intact. Speaking on French television, former NATO general Olivier de Bavinshov remarked on Trump's disdain for Europe.

He basically said, you are all ingrates, we Americans do everything, and without us, you are nothing. Then, a few hours after his speech, Trump said he and NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta have reached agreement on a framework of a future deal on Greenland. No details yet, though it does not apparently entail the U.S. owning the Arctic Island. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris. President Trump has lately downplayed the possibility of sending military forces to Minnesota. But a military police battalion in North Carolina has been put on alert, as NPR's Quill Lawrence reports. A U.S. official who is not authorized to speak publicly has confirmed to NPR that an Army military police battalion stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina,

has received a prepared-to-deploy order for Minnesota. That's in addition to the 1500th, soldiers with the Army's 11th Airborne Division in Alaska, told last week to ready themselves to support the Trump administration's massive ice deployment in the Twin Cities. Protests have continued in Minneapolis for two weeks since an ice agent shot to death Renee Maclin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. The Trump administration is not investigating the shooting, but has open investigations into Democratic Minnesota government officials for allegedly blocking federal immigration

enforcement. Quill Lawrence NPR News. This is NPR. The governors of both North and South Carolina have declared states of emergency ahead of that winter storm forecasters are warning about. Winter storm watches, in effect, from New Mexico to the Appalachian Mountains, and forecasters say it could cause power outages across the South this weekend. Experts expect frigid conditions to persist in too early next month. A new report finds as many as 11 million Americans used magic mushrooms in the past year.

as part of a broader trend toward microdosing when you take a small dose of a psychedelic drug. MPR's Will Stone has more. The RAND Drug Policy Research Center asked more than 10,000 adults about psychedelics. Based on those responses, the researchers found that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, was by far the most widely used substance. Other popular psychedelics were MDMA, ketamine, and LSD. Many people said they microdose. While there's no single definition, generally that amounts to taking about

10% or less of a regular dose that would produce mind-altering effects. Proponents of microdosing often say they do it to improve their mood, relieve anxiety and depression, or promote creativity. However, there's not much high-quality research data on microdosing. Will Stone, NPR News. Stocks in Japan are on track toward ending a five-day losing streak. Tokyo's benchmarked NICA rebounding and Thursday trading after President Trump dropped tariff threats and ruled out seizing Greenland by force. The Niki tracking Wednesday's gains on Wall Street. All three major U.S. stock markets jumped 1.2% the Dow, adding 588 points. This is NPR News.