Copenhagen is expected to receive 30% more rainfall by the end of the century. The city is responding with a massive long-term adaptation plan.

My wonderful German colleague @alisaschllnbrg.bsky.social interviewed me about how I saw Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit with President Trump. Here’s our conversation:

Friedrich Merz war in Washington, und ich durfte ein schönes Kollegengespräch mit NPR-Korri @robschmitz.bsky.social führen.

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„Merz' Englisch ist fantastisch. Es ist wirklich gut.“
NPR-Korrespondent Rob Schmitz im Interview über Merz‘ Englisch, die Begegnung mit Trump und den Faktor Six Foot Five.

Von Alisa Schellenberg

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Stacking the judiciary w/loyalists. Targeting universities & News orgs. Purging the government. Eliminating the "woke" agenda. Our @npr.org story on Viktor Orban's track record in Hungary & who it's inspired. "Trump went further in two months than Orban could in 15 years" www.npr.org/2025/04/20/n...

A year ago, NPR Gaza Producer Anas Baba and I profiled Nimer, an 11-year old boy shot five times by the Israeli military, suffering greatly from his wounds. A year later, Anas set out to find Nimer to see if he survived. He did. And here’s our update: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

"There's nothing that the United States could want in Greenland that they couldn't get just by talking to us normally without threats of annexation" -Ramus Jarlov, member of the Danish Parliament, in my @npr.org story on how the Danes are handling Trump's Greenland envy: www.npr.org/2025/02/10/n...

A professor of Chinese studies asked China's AI-bot Deepseek some questions about what happened at Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989, and here's the result:

What, traditionally, were performing robots are now replaced by performing robots.

We need more lowest-level talks to repair this relationship.

"We are like the dreamer who dreams, and then lives in the dream. But who is the dreamer?"

Thank you, David Lynch, for being you and for sharing your fascination of life and beyond with us.

Berlin, now, sundown.

Incredible byline, incredible dateline, incredible story. Great to see Evan’s work again in the WSJ

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There are nearly a million Syrians living in Germany, the largest diaspora outside the Middle East. Our story about how they’re grappling with the fall of the Assad regime:

Syrian refugees in Germany ponder returning after Assad ouster

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Former US ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell reportedly paid influencers to promote him on social media to become the incoming Trump administration's Secretary of State, per @politico.com. The effort failed.

Thanks, Mason!

Martyn Stewart has spent his life collecting the sounds of nature. Now that audio has been paired with the sweeping music of Robert Shields, aka ONR, on their new album "Imperfect Cadence". Please listen to the result - it's magical: www.npr.org/2024/11/27/n...

My conversation with World Central Kitchen founder, chef Jose Andres, on the spirit of Thanksgiving and his org's mission to feed the hungry in these turbulent times: www.npr.org/2024/11/26/n...

If you grew up listening to the Pixies & the Breeders, you must listen to my convo on @npr.org w/the great Kim Deal, who discusses her first -yes, first! - solo album "Nobody Loves You More," which is, unsurprisingly, sublime: www.npr.org/2024/11/25/n...

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant. I talk to @steveinskeep.bsky.social about what this means: www.npr.org/2024/11/21/n...

Chinese cargo ship Yi Peng 3 is under investigation by Swedish authorities for severing telecommunications cables between Sweden & Lithuania and Germany & Finland. The ship is still being held by a Danish navy patrol boat. My report on NPR's Morning Edition: www.npr.org/2024/11/21/n...

My conversation last night on @npr.org about the Chinese vessel stopped by the Danish navy: www.npr.org/2024/11/20/n...

Update: A Danish navy patrol boat continues to float alongside the anchored Yi Peng 3 in the straits between Denmark and Sweden, waiting for officials from Germany, Sweden, and Finland to arrive to question the crew.

Denmark's Navy has confirmed that it is in the waters around the Yi Peng 3, a Chinese vessel sailing from Russia that, according to investigators, was in the waters above the Swedish-Lithuanian & Finnish-German underwater telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea when both were severed earlier this week.