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A crucial deadline set by Nancy Guthrie’s kidnappers passed without her return Monday evening, with the FBI saying it is not aware of any communication between the abductors and the Guthrie family and has not identified any suspects in the case. In a ransom note, the purported kidnappers gave the Guthries a deadline of 5…

WASHINGTON  — The White House’s TrumpRx website went live Thursday with a promise to instantly deliver prescription drugs at “the lowest price anywhere in the world.” “This launch represents the largest reduction in prescription drug prices in history by many, many times, and it’s not even close,” President Trump said at a news conference announcing the…

In recent weeks, Marin County Registrar Natalie Adona has been largely focused on the many mundane tasks of local elections administrators in the months before a midterm: finalizing voting locations, ordering supplies, facilitating candidate filings. But in the wake of unprecedented efforts by the Trump administration to intervene in state-run elections, Adona said she has…

A week after Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her Tucson home, investigators spent the weekend searching at least two residences as more details emerged about a ransom note. The frantic search comes as Nancy’s daughter, NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie, issued a second video appeal to the kidnappers. Sources told The Times the ransom note…

You may have missed it, what with President Trump’s endless pyrotechnics, but California voters will decide in November who succeeds Gavin Newsom, the highest-profile governor since the Terminator returned to Hollywood. Unfortunately for those attempting to civically engage, the current crop of contenders is, shall we say, less than enthralling. In alphabetical order (because there…

NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie made a new video pleas to the kidnappers of her mother Saturday, saying “we will pay” for her safe return. “We received your message, and we understand,” Guthrie said in the new video posted Saturday afternoon. She sat next to her brother and sister. “We beg you now to return…

Over the last decade, the Los Angeles Police Department sent employees to Israel to train or be trained by the country’s counterterrorism experts on at least nine occasions. But officers who attended these training sessions and dozens of other overseas seminars and conferences routinely failed to document what they learned or keep track of who…

Welcome to Black History Month, 2026 style. President Trump posted a video Thursday to his social media site that contains animated images depicting former President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. The White House took down the post Friday, and after first calling it nothing more than a meme, they dubbed it a…

WASHINGTON — President Trump shared a short video clip on social media late Thursday depicting former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes, drawing immediate public backlash that the White House characterized as “fake outrage.” The image, which Trump posted on his official Truth Social account around midnight, was included toward the end of…

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican Leader John Thune warned Thursday that Congress is not close to an agreement to fund the Department of Homeland Security, signaling that another short-term extension may be the only way to avoid a shutdown as Democrats demand “nonnegotiable” ICE reforms ahead of the Feb. 13 deadline. The Republicans are increasingly looking to punt…