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Today show host’s mother, Nancy, 84, was last seen on Saturday evening and signs indicate she did not leave aloneAn Arizona sheriff said on Monday that “we do in fact have a crime scene” as authorities search for the 84-year-old mother of the Today show host Savannah Guthrie, who was reported missing over the weekend.Speaking during a news conference, Sheriff Chris Nanos of Pima county said there were signs at […]

Democrats and one Republican demand release of millions more pages they insist are still being deliberately withheldDemocrats have promised to fight what they say is a “full-blown cover-up” of the Epstein files after the Trump administration on Sunday effectively declared its investigation into the disgraced late financier and sex offender closed.The release of more than 3m new pages by the justice department on Friday represented the final act of compliance […]

Bomb cyclone contributed to snow and wind chills in the south with Florida iguanas freezing and falling from treesThe US continues to be at the mercy of freezing temperatures across much of the country, stretching from the north-east all the way into the south and putting approximately 150 million people under cold weather advisories and extreme cold warnings.Florida’s uncharacteristic cold snap has led to some rare sightings: snowflakes and falling […]

Ex-PM asks cabinet secretary to investigate whether Mandelson shared market-sensitive informationUK politics live – latest updatesThe former prime minister Gordon Brown has asked the cabinet secretary to investigate Peter Mandelson’s apparent disclosure of highly sensitive government information to Jeffrey Epstein.Mandelson was business secretary during Brown’s premiership, when he appears to have leaked an economic briefing to Epstein, who was serving a jail sentence at the time for soliciting prostitution from […]

Darren Jones making statement to MPs following Epstein files revelationsPeter Mandelson “leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans”, the Financial Times is reporting.In his story, Jim Pickard says:The memo, dubbed “Business Issues”, was written on June 13 2009 by Nick Butler, who at the time was special adviser to the then […]

As Gustavo Petro prepares to face Donald Trump in Washington, Colombia’s anti-drug strategy is under intense scrutiny.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Syrian forces move into the northeastern city, which was previously under the control of the Kurdish-led SDF.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

The Girl, based on Samantha Geimer’s memoir, will revisit ‘one of Hollywood’s most notorious scandals through the eyes of the person most misrepresented by it’A new movie will explore the notorious Roman Polanski statutory rape scandal from the perspective of the 13-year-old girl, Samantha Geimer.The Girl, based on Geimer’s 2013 memoir The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski, will trace her time in the famous director’s orbit […]