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John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser, told NPR in February 2025 that making Greenland a U.S. territory or commonwealth could help with security interests of "critical importance."

Most of the targets are U.N.-related agencies, commissions and advisory panels that focus on climate, labor and other issues that the Trump administration has categorized as catering to diversity and "woke" initiatives.

There’s a plant similar to hibiscus that’s native to Giles County called The Peter’s Mountain Mallow, but there are only a handful still alive. Two researchers at Virginia Tech are working with a team of undergraduate students to protect the plant from extinction.

Crude prices are low. Companies are being cautious. But huge reserves — particularly of the heavy, viscous oil Venezuela has in abundance — remain appealing.

A hundred years ago, pianos were a fixture in many American homes. More than 300,000 of them were sold in 1925, but today the number has fallen to under 18,000. Electronic keyboard sales outnumber acoustics ten to one. They are cheaper and easier to maintain. But one man in Virginia says he still keeps busy ensuring existing instruments – which can last a hundred years or more – stay in tune.

Dominion Energy, which is developing Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, was the first to sue. It's asking a judge to block the order, calling it “arbitrary and capricious” and unconstitutional.

Congressional forecasters have lowered their projection for U.S. population growth over the next decade by 7 million people as a result of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown as well as falling birth rates.

More than 1,000 stranded passengers spent the night at Amsterdam's international airport as snow and ice that is pummeling parts of Europe grounded hundreds of flights.

NPR's Juana Summers spoke with Greenlandic politician Naaja Nathanielsen in February 2025 about the Trump administration's push to acquire the territory.

What makes rents go down and neighborhood diversity go up? Corporate landlords. But they also make it harder to own for yourself.