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FBI says it’s unaware of Savannah Guthrie talking with her mom’s suspected kidnappers
TUCSON, Ariz. — The FBI said Monday it is unaware of any continued communication between Savannah Guthrie’s family and suspected kidnappers more than a week after the “Today” show host’s mom went missing. The FBI has still not identified any suspects or persons of interest in the mysterious disappearance of...
British PM Starmer vows to fight for his job after furor about former ambassador’s Epstein ties
LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed Monday to fight for his job as revelations about the relationship between the former U.K. ambassador to Washington and Jeffrey Epstein spiraled into a full-blown crisis for his 19-month-old government. The prime minister’s authority with his own Labour Party has been battered...
Death toll in Lebanon building collapse rises to 15
BEIRUT — The number of people killed in a building collapse in the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon has risen to 15, state media reported Monday, while the government ordered evacuation of more than 100 other buildings believed to be at risk. A further eight people were injured, the...
Cuba says airlines can no longer refuel on the island as U.S. blockade deepens energy crisis
HAVANA — Cuban aviation officials have warned airlines that there isn’t enough fuel for airplanes to refuel on the island, part of a critical energy rationing as the Trump administration cuts the island off from its fuel resources, a commercial pilot confirmed on Monday. A notice was sent to companies...
Trump’s immigration crackdown is straining federal courts. Judges are raising the alarm
ATLANTA — Federal judges around the country are scrambling to address a deluge of lawsuits from immigrants locked up under the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. Under past administrations, people with no criminal record could generally request a bond hearing before an immigration judge while their cases wound through immigration...
Rebels linked to Islamic State group kill at least 20 in Congo village attack, army says
KINSHASA, Congo — Rebels backed by the Islamic State group killed at least 20 people in an attack over the weekend on a village in eastern Congo, the military said Monday. The attack by the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, took place early Saturday in the village of Mambimbi-Isigo in...
Ghislaine Maxwell appeals for clemency from Trump as she declines to answer questions from lawmakers
WASHINGTON — Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers in a deposition Monday, but indicated that if President Donald Trump ended her prison sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Bill Clinton had done anything wrong in...
JD Vance is in Armenia, a country no sitting U.S. president or vice president has visited before
YEREVAN, Armenia — Vice President JD Vance landed in Armenia on Monday — a country that no sitting U.S. vice president or president has visited before — as the Trump administration looks to advance a U.S.-brokered deal aimed at ending a decades-long conflict with Azerbaijan. The vice president and his...
A record 13 skiers, climbers and hikers died in Italian mountains over the past week
MILAN — A record 13 backcountry skiers, climbers and hikers have died in the Italian mountains over the past week, rescuers said Monday, including 10 in avalanches triggered by an exceptionally unstable snowpack, as Winter Olympic competitions got underway. Fresh snowfall during recent storms and wind-swept snowcaps on weak internal...
Masks emerge as symbol of Trump’s ICE crackdown and a flashpoint in Congress
WASHINGTON — Beyond the car windows being smashed, people tackled on city streets — or even a little child with a floppy bunny ears snowcap detained — the images of masked federal officers has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations. Not in recent U.S. memory has...
New video footage released from day of the fatal Brown University shooting
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — New video footage from the day of the Brown University shooting that killed two students and injured nine others was released Monday, with city officials saying they had redacted the most graphic, violent images to avoid harming victims and “maintain the trust we have built in our...
How to protect a loved one when choosing a nursing home or assisted living facility
NEW YORK — Sometimes it’s a fall that brings a broken hip and a loss of mobility. Or memory problems that bubble into danger. Or the death of the partner who was relied upon for care. The need to move to a nursing home, assisted living facility or another type...
Migrants languish in U.S. detention centers facing dire conditions and prolonged waits
MIAMI — Felipe Hernandez Espinosa spent 45 days at ” Alligator Alcatraz,” an immigration holding center in Florida where detainees have reported worms in their food, toilets that don’t flush and overflowing sewage. Mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere. For the past five months, the 34-year-old asylum-seeker has been at...
Investigation continues a week after Savannah Guthrie mother was reported missingVideo
TUCSON, Ariz. — The urgent investigation into the apparent kidnapping of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie continued Sunday, a week after the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie was reported missing in Arizona. Savannah Guthrie solemnly told the potential kidnappers in a social media video released Saturday that the family was...
Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang charged with damaging $6K ice sculpture at Minnesota CapitolVideo
Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang was charged with damaging a $6,000 ice sculpture that a veterans organization displayed on the front steps of the State Capitol. Lang, 30, of Lake Worth, Fla., recorded social media videos of him on Thursday kicking down portions of the ice sculpture that spelled out...
FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show
NEW YORK — The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people. But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused underage girls, they found scant...
Takeaways from what the Epstein files show about the FBI investigation of possible sex trafficking
NEW YORK — The FBI collected ample proof that Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused underage girls but found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows. Videos and photos seized from Epstein’s homes in New York,...
Meloni condemns anti-Olympics actions in Milan, calling demonstrators ‘enemies of Italy’
MILAN — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni condemned recent anti-Olympics protests in Milan and alleged sabotage of train infrastructure, calling those responsible “enemies of Italy and Italians” early Sunday. The protesters “demonstrate ‘against the Olympics,’ causing these images to end up on televisions around the world. After others cut the railway...
UK leader’s chief of staff quits over appointment of Mandelson as ambassador despite Epstein ties
LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff resigned Sunday over the furor surrounding the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Morgan McSweeney said he took responsibility for advising Starmer to appoint Mandelson, 72, to Britain’s most...
‘We will pay,’ Savannah Guthrie says in desperate video plea to potential kidnappers of her mother
TUCSON, Ariz. — Savannah Guthrie told the potential kidnappers of her mother Nancy Guthrie on Saturday that the family is prepared to pay for her safe return, as the frantic search for the 84-year-old Arizona resident has entered a seventh day. “We received your message, and we understand. We beg...
Ohio man charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance and possessing child abuse files
An Ohio man has been charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance while he was visiting his home state last month. But the man’s lawyer said his health makes it unlikely he would have been able to carry out the threat. In addition to the charge for threatening...
Gaza’s Rafah border crossing has reopened but few people get through
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — When the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt finally reopened this week, Palestinian officials heralded it as a “window of hope” after two years of war as a fragile ceasefire deal moves forward. But that hope has been sidetracked by disagreements over who should...
Armchair detectives flood social media as search for Savannah Guthrie’s missing mom continues
Moments after the news broke about the apparent abduction of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, the floodgates opened on social media. Influencers relayed the timeline from the hours after Nancy Guthrie was last seen and posted photos of the blood found on her front porch that later was a...
U.S. gave Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach agreement to end war, Zelenskyy says
KYIV, Ukraine — The U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach a deal to end the nearly four‑year war, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters, as Russian strikes on energy infrastructure forced nuclear power plants to cut output on Saturday. If the June deadline is not met,...
Epstein revelations have toppled top figures in Europe while U.S. fallout is more muted
LONDON — A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States. The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social...
