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The search for Nancy Guthrie is in its 10th day. Here are the key developments
The search for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of “Today”
show host Savannah Guthrie, has stretched into a second, anguished
week, with mounting pressure on investigators and a family grappling
with uncertainty.
Guthrie was last seen on January 31, before she was apparently
kidnapped, disappearing from her secluded home in Arizona’s Catalina
Foothills without her phone or critical medications.
The long days since she vanished have been marked by disturbing twists:
purported ransom notes demanding millions of dollars, an intensive
investigation and emotional video pleas from Guthrie’s children
publicly begging for the return of their mother.
House Epstein Probe Amps Up Amid Document Reviews, Depositions
Key House lawmakers on Monday pushed for more information on the
sex-trafficking probe of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and raised
the prospect of new criminal prosecutions.
Speaking outside a Justice Department office after reviewing unredacted
files in the Epstein inquiry, Republican Thomas Massie and Democrat Ro
Khanna said they believed there are six men whose names have not been
revealed who could face criminal charges.
Massie said he’s willing to give Attorney General Pam Bondi more time
to make their names public but signaled that he would list the names on
the House floor if necessary.
“We want those things published,” Massie said.
The Justice Department has released about 3.5 million pages of emails,
flight logs, photographs, videos and other documents in response to a
law enacted last year.
Dems: WH Offer on ICE 'Insufficient'; Shutdown Looms Friday
Democrat leaders say a proposal from the White House is "incomplete and
insufficient" as they are demanding new restrictions on President
Donald Trump's immigration crackdown and threatening a shutdown of the
Homeland Security Department.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader
Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said in a statement late Monday that a White
House counterproposal to the list of demands they transmitted over the
weekend "included neither details nor legislative text" and does not
address "the concerns Americans have about ICE's lawless conduct."
The White House proposal was not released publicly.
The Democrats' statement comes as time is running short, with another
partial government shutdown threatening to begin Saturday. Among the
Democrats' demands are a requirement for judicial warrants, better
identification of DHS officers, new use-of-force standards and a stop
to racial profiling. They say such changes are necessary after two
protesters were fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis last
month.
Jorge Rodriguez to Newsmax: Venezuela Stabilizing After Maduro's Capture
The brother of Venezuela's acting president reports that Delcy
Rodriguez is stabilizing the country following the capture of dictator
Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
The two were brought to the United States to face federal drug charges.
Jorge Rodriguez told "Rob Schmitt Tonight" during an exclusive
interview in Caracas on Saturday that the turmoil from Maduro's capture
by U.S. forces has not led to lingering effects on the nation as a
whole, despite the traumatic nature of the operation.
Trump says Gordie Howe bridge won't open without Canadian concessions
President Donald Trump says he will not allow the Gordie Howe
International Bridge between Detroit and Windsor to open unless Canada
makes significant concessions to the U.S.
Trump said in a Feb. 9 post on Truth Social that the U.S. will open
negotiations with Canada, which has footed the entire bill for the
$5.7-billion bridge construction project, but believes the U.S. should
probably take ownership of at least half of it.
In fact, the bridge is jointly owned by Canada and the U.S., with
Canada intending to recoup its upfront construction costs over time,
through bridge tolls.
The bridge is expected to open early this year, after construction began in 2020, following a 2018 groundbreaking.
40+ GOP Congressmen Urge FCC to Keep TV Ownership Cap
Almost a quarter of Republicans in Congress are urging the Federal
Communications Commission not to lift the national television ownership
cap, warning that doing so would trigger massive consolidation,
undermine local news coverage, and raise costs for consumers.
See Congressional Letter to FCC Chairman on TV Caps
Last week, Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., led a strongly worded letter signed
by 40 colleagues to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr saying they wanted to
keep the statutory TV cap that limits networks from reaching more than
39% of U.S. households.
Zuckerberg Joins Billionaire Rush to Florida With Indian Creek Mansion Deal
As California weighs a proposed 5% billionaire tax, tech mogul Mark
Zuckerberg has become the latest ultra-wealthy executive to plant a
flag in Florida — snapping up a lavish waterfront home in one of
Miami’s most exclusive enclaves, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are buying a newly completed
mansion on Indian Creek, the tightly guarded barrier island often
dubbed “Billionaire Bunker,” according to people familiar with the
transaction.
Real-estate agents say the deal underscores how tax policy is
accelerating an already red-hot luxury housing market in South Florida.
Iran Says Nuclear Talks Gauged 'Seriousness' of US
Nuclear talks with the United States allowed Tehran to gauge
Washington's seriousness and showed enough consensus to continue on the
diplomatic track, Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.
U.S. and Iranian diplomats held talks through Omani mediators in Oman
last week in an effort to revive diplomacy, after President Donald
Trump positioned a naval flotilla in the region, raising fears of new
military action.
"The Muscat meeting was not a long meeting. In our view, it was to
gauge the seriousness of the other side and how to continue this path,"
Baghaei said.
"After the talks, we felt there was understanding and consensus to continue the diplomatic process."
Bill Maher, Adam Carolla unload on left for shunning people who think differently
by Jason Cohen
Comedians Bill Maher and Adam Carolla rebuked the political left for
excluding individuals who hold heterodox views during a Monday episode
of “Club Random.”
Maher and Carolla, who both live in the Los Angeles area, are not
religious and support abortion and smoking marijuana. Yet they lamented
on the podcast that the left had cast them out and treated them as
conservatives.
“It’s so hard to not be on one of the extremes, to not have a team. I
mean, it just really sucks. And especially in this town where
everyone’s on one team … They are very exclusionary,” Maher said. “They
really just don’t want to breathe the same air if you’re not exactly
with the groupthink, while they’re not that bright.”
Carolla agreed and argued that Americans should focus on shared beliefs rather than dissent.
Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ shows UK’s spineless Keir Starmer how leadership is done
By Daniel McCarthy
The contrast between America’s great island allies on opposite ends of the world couldn’t be more drastic.
Japan has just given its common-sense conservative prime minister,
Sanae Takaichi, a two-thirds supermajority in the national
legislature’s Lower House — her Liberal Democratic Party took the
highest proportion of seats of any party since World War II.
It’s an enormous vote of confidence for Takaichi’s economic agenda, and for her willingness to get tough with China.
When she indicated Japan would aid Taiwan against an invasion, China’s
consul general in Osaka threatened her: “The dirty neck that sticks
itself in must be cut off.”
Such incendiary language didn’t intimidate Takaichi — nor, it turns out, Japan’s voters.
