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Several NATO countries are deploying small numbers of military personnel to Greenland to take part in joint exercises with Denmark, as US President Donald Trump intensifies his threats to forcibly annex the Arctic island.

Trump’s remarks have sent shockwaves through Europe’s decades-old, US-led security alliance by raising the unprecedented possibility of NATO’s most powerful member seeking to take over territory belonging to another member state. Denmark, which is responsible for Greenland’s defense, has warned that any attack on the island would effectively spell the end of NATO and has announced an expansion of its military presence in close cooperation with allied nations.

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Mattel Inc. made a debut for an autistic Barbie on Monday, the latest addition to its "Fashionistas" line designed to celebrate human diversity. Developed over an 18-month period in collaboration with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), the new doll joins a growing collection that includes Barbies with Down syndrome, a blind Barbie, and models with vitiligo. Mattel stated the partnership with the nonprofit was essential to ensuring authentic representation and advocating for the rights of the autistic community.

The goal: to create a Barbie that reflected some of the ways autistic people may experience and process the world around them, according to a Mattel news release.

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that anything less than U.S. control of Greenland is unacceptable, hours before Vice President JD Vance was to host Danish and Greenlandic officials for talks.

In a post on his social media site, Trump reiterated his argument that the U.S. “needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security.” He added that “NATO should be leading the way for us to get it” and that otherwise Russia or China would.

“NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES,” Trump wrote. “Anything less than that is unacceptable.”

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Thousands of nurses in three hospital systems in New York City went on strike Monday after negotiations through the weekend failed to yield breakthroughs in their contract disputes.

The strike was taking place at The Mount Sinai Hospital and two of its satellite campuses, with picket lines forming. The other affected hospitals are NewYork-Presbyterian and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.

About 15,000 nurses are involved in the strike, according to New York State Nurses Association.

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Days of demonstrations against immigration agents left Minnesota tense on Tuesday, a day after federal authorities used tear gas to break up crowds of whistle-blowing activists and state and local leaders sued to fight the enforcement surge that led to the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman.

Confrontations between federal agents and protesters stretched throughout the day and across multiple cities on Monday. Agents fired tear gas in Minneapolis as a crowd gathered around immigration officers questioning a man, while to the northwest in St. Cloud hundreds of people protested outside a strip of Somali-run businesses after ICE officers arrived.

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that Denmark is facing a “decisive moment” over the future of Greenland, following renewed threats by US President Donald Trump to seize the Arctic territory by force.

Speaking ahead of meetings in Washington, DC, on global competition for critical raw materials, Frederiksen said there is now an open conflict over Greenland, with implications that go far beyond the island’s future.

“This is a decisive moment,” she said during a debate with other Danish political leaders, stressing that the stakes extend beyond Greenland alone.

In a social media post, Frederiksen said Denmark was “ready to defend our values, wherever it is necessary – also in the Arctic,” adding that the country believes in international law and the right of peoples to self-determination.

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The BBC has announced it will file a motion to dismiss President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit regarding the broadcaster's alleged editing of a 2021 speech. In a legal filing submitted late on Monday, the BBC argued that the Florida court lacks jurisdiction as the program was not broadcast in that state. Furthermore, the broadcaster contended that the President cannot prove damages, pointing to his successful re-election after the segment aired as evidence that his reputation remained intact.

Trump said Britain’s publicly owned broadcaster defamed him by splicing together parts of a Jan. 6, 2021, speech, including one section where he told supporters to march on the Capitol and another where he said “fight like hell.” It omitted a section in which he called for peaceful protest.

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A Florida teen allegedly set a house ablaze while a family of four slept inside in a plot to k!ll his friend, according to authorities.

Cops and firefighters responded to a fire at a residential home in Lehigh Acres around 6 a.m. on Jan. 3. They then discovered an open 5-gallon propane tank near the front door and a homemade Molotov cocktail on the scene, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. “Four occupants inside the home were able to escape through a window and were not injured,” police wrote. Multiple witnesses told investigators that the suspect, a 14-year-old boy, had been parked down the street and had briefly made contact with the victims, asking them what happened before fleeing the scene, police said. The suspect was located and arrested at his home, where he admitted to transporting the propane tank and using a gas-filled bottle to ignite the fire.