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NewsNation discovered a blood trail leading from the Arizona home of Nancy Guthrie, 84, mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, as authorities investigate her disappearance. Reported missing since late January, Nancy is described as a “vulnerable adult,” and police are treating the case as a potential abduction with possible ransom demands, including a Bitcoin note. Investigators previously found blood inside the home and signs of forced entry, and a Ring doorbell camera has gone missing, intensifying fears that foul play is involved.

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Donald Trump’s foreign policy has taken a hard turn from Greenland ambitions to wielding economic pressure on European nations as U.S. troops carried out a dramatic military operation that led to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s capture and ongoing U.S. influence over the country’s oil sector, a move critics warn could foreshadow new tariff tactics against allies that don’t bend to Washington’s will. Trump has previously slapped tariffs on countries importing Venezuelan oil as part of his strategy to isolate Maduro’s regime, and commentators now suggest that his focus may shift to using similar economic levers against European governments—even though many view the U.S. as a close partner—raising fears that oil and trade could become tools of coercion on the international stage.

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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough warned Republicans that House Oversight Chair James Comer may have spectacularly hoisted his own party on its petard by forcing Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify about Jeffrey Epstein. On Morning Joe, Scarborough said Comer’s move all but guarantees future subpoenas for Donald Trump, whose name appears tens of thousands of times in Epstein-related files, along with several top administration officials and wealthy allies. Scarborough mocked Comer’s recklessness, arguing the Kentucky Republican has created a precedent that Democrats will eagerly use once power shifts—dragging Trump, Cabinet members, and donors before Congress in what he predicted would be “fascinating” and unavoidable oversight hearings.

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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie warned Wednesday that Donald Trump is actively sabotaging Republican electoral prospects by poisoning his own voters against mail-in ballots, calling it a lingering “disease” inside the GOP. Speaking on MSNBC, Christie said Trump’s nonstop claims that elections are rigged—especially by mail voting—have conditioned large blocks of Republican voters to believe their ballots won’t count, suppressing turnout among seniors and others. Christie noted that Trump was repeatedly warned in 2020 to stop attacking mail-in voting, but ignored the advice, leaving Republicans “smashed” in later vote counts and still paying the political price today.

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A constitutional alarm bell is ringing after a federal judge found the Trump administration repeatedly ignoring court orders in immigration detention cases, prompting a top legal expert to warn that a core American right may be under quiet assault. Just Security editor-in-chief Ryan Goodman said a recent ruling by Judge Patrick Schiltz shows how Trump officials are effectively gutting habeas corpus—the right to challenge unlawful detention—by simply refusing to comply with the courts. Goodman called the ruling “mind-blowing,” arguing it exposes a broader strategy tied to Stephen Miller’s long-stated desire to suspend the right altogether, starting with immigrants but potentially expanding to protesters, observers, and political opponents.

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President Donald Trump plans to install a reconstructed Christopher Columbus statue on White House grounds, reviving a monument torn down during the 2020 racial justice protests and reigniting a long-running culture war over how America honors its past. According to the Washington Post, the statue—originally unveiled by Ronald Reagan and later dumped into Baltimore’s harbor—was recovered and rebuilt by a group of Italian American businessmen and Republican allies, who say it symbolizes immigrant pride rather than conquest. The White House has embraced that framing, with a spokesman declaring Columbus a “hero,” even as critics continue to point to the explorer’s role in violence, enslavement, and genocide against Indigenous people.

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Trump administration Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services chief Dr. Mehmet Oz ignited backlash Monday after suggesting rural communities would be best served by AI “avatars” standing in for doctors — comments that landed as especially jarring amid deep funding cuts to already struggling rural hospitals. Speaking alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at an “Action for Progress” event, Oz framed artificial intelligence as an unavoidable solution to health care shortages, prompting critics to accuse the administration of pushing techno-fixes while gutting real-world care. The remarks set off a wave of online outrage, with health experts and commentators mocking the idea as quackery and warning that proven solutions like expanding nurse practitioner authority are being ignored in favor of flashy, disconnected alternatives.

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U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro ignited backlash after declaring on Fox News that anyone who brings a gun into the district should “count on going to jail,” then attempting to soften her remarks as criticism poured in. Posting on X, Pirro framed herself as a supporter of the Second Amendment and said she was targeting only unlawful gun carriers under local licensing rules, but critics said the walk-back rang hollow. Gun rights advocates and commentators pointed out that her original statement made no such distinction, accusing the U.S. attorney of contradicting herself and inflaming concerns about aggressive enforcement and civil liberties in the nation’s capital.

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A coalition of local prosecutors from across the country is descending on Washington, D.C., this week to coordinate an unprecedented effort to hold the Trump administration accountable for aggressive immigration raids, according to a report by former White House official Miles Taylor. Organized under the newly formed Fight Against Federal Overreach, the group aims to challenge what it sees as violent and unconstitutional conduct by federal immigration agents who have been shielded by sweeping immunity claims embraced by the administration. With the Justice Department unwilling to police its own and Vice President JD Vance asserting “absolute immunity” for federal agents, prosecutors say they are entering uncharted legal territory — exploring novel strategies, including empowering citizens to sue federal officials, to rein in what critics describe as escalating abuses of power.

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French authorities raided offices tied to Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a widening criminal investigation into the alleged dissemination of child sexual abuse material generated through user-created deepfake images, The Wall Street Journal reported. The probe has reportedly expanded to examine whether X’s algorithm may also amount to foreign interference in France’s elections, prompting officials to seek a voluntary interview with Musk. Carried out with assistance from Europol, the raid marks the latest escalation in Musk’s long-running standoff with European regulators, who enforce stricter limits on platform content than the U.S. Musk declined to comment to the Journal, but the raid comes as he has publicly scrambled to defend himself amid newly surfaced emails linking him to Jeffrey Epstein that appear to undermine his past denials.

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A cornerstone U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty is on the brink of expiring, and a former Pentagon official says President Donald Trump’s fixation on including China could doom it for no good reason. Writing about the looming February 5 expiration of New START, Kingston Reiff said the agreement significantly reduced uncertainty about Russia’s nuclear forces and strengthened U.S. deterrence planning, even without covering every weapon system or Beijing’s arsenal. Reiff argued that scrapping the treaty over China — which has long had far fewer nuclear weapons than Russia — makes little strategic sense, especially as inspections were already disrupted by COVID and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Democrats are sounding the alarm as well, warning that allowing the treaty to lapse without a replacement would usher in a dangerous era with no limits on the world’s largest nuclear arsenals.

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Tensions are boiling over inside CBS News as editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly digs in her heels over controversial wellness influencer Peter Attia, whose name surfaced repeatedly in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails. According to The Wrap, Weiss is resisting internal pressure to sever ties with Attia — who exchanged hundreds of friendly messages with Epstein and appears more than 1,700 times in the document dump — setting up a showdown with Paramount executives who view the situation as a growing liability. Insiders say Weiss considers demands to drop Attia a capitulation to public outrage, while corporate leadership sees an unavoidable HR crisis, leaving CEO David Ellison poised to decide Attia’s fate. The dispute adds to a string of missteps during Weiss’s turbulent four-month tenure, already marked by programming shakeups, internal backlash, and an embarrassing on-air rollout gone wrong.

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President Donald Trump’s decision to shutter the Kennedy Center for two years amounts to a quiet admission of failure driven by a familiar error, an Atlantic writer argues. After taking control of the iconic arts institution despite never attending a performance there, Trump insisted his personal judgment would revive it, only to trigger staff resignations, artist withdrawals, plummeting ticket sales, and programming turmoil. His latest claim that the closure is needed for revitalization directly contradicts months of public boasts that the building was already repaired and thriving, leaving the justification largely unverifiable. The episode, David A. Graham writes, reflects Trump’s broader governing pattern: overconfidence, disregard for expertise, and repeated miscalculations about public support that leave high-profile projects collapsing under their own weight.

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