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NBC star Savannah Guthrie posted a new video on Saturday night begging those suspected of kidnapping her 84-year-old mom Nancy Guthrie to bring her home, nearly one week after she disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona home. The Today host was flanked by her brother Camron Guthrie and her sister Annie Guthrie in the video posted to Instagram. Guthrie's 22-second message struck a grim tone, alluding to receiving a message from the kidnappers.

The decision to suspend a search weighs heavily on all crews involved, said Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Michael Zapawa, search and rescue mission coordinator at Coast Guard Sector San Francisco. That decision is based on careful evaluation of all available information, including extensive search efforts, environmental conditions, and survivability assessments.

It's rare for interpreters' cultural background to reflect the music itself, says AV Vilavong, a Deaf concert interpreter who performs at major music festivals across the country. "The fact that Celimar is Puerto Rican, there are cultural nuances that are already embedded in how she, as a Deaf interpreter, will match the tone, the cultural aspects, the songs, the significance behind the slang for particular vocabulary," Vilavong says through an interpeter. "It's embedded in who she is as an individual."

In this week's air travel news, United Airlines is developing new premium-heavy "Coastliner" Airbus jets to deploy on high-revenue transcontinental routes out of California; a federal appeals court knocks down a Transportation Department rule that would have required airlines to be more transparent in displaying their ancillary fees to passengers before booking; a Minnesota resident who was stopped by immigration enforcement officers said her Global Entry and TSA PreCheck trusted traveler memberships were revoked a few days later;

"Affordability was part of it, but we were also looking forward to having a slower pace of life. I lived in South Florida my entire life - and it's not anything like what it used to be."

As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the US Department of Justice has started its probe of Netflix's proposed purchase, but is notably interested in whether the streaming giant was involved in any anticompetitive practices. According to the civil subpoena seen by WSJ, the Justice Department is looking into any "exclusionary conduct on the part of Netflix that would reasonably appear capable of entrenching market or monopoly power."

Lee was arrested and taken into custody in Hamilton County, Tennessee, after deputies were called to a medical emergency where first responders were giving a woman CPR. The medics were unable to save her. The name of the woman, who was Lee's girlfriend, has not been released and local police said her death was being treated as a homicide. Lee was also charged with tampering with evidence.

Parental neglect contributed to the previously unreported deaths of three Santa Clara County children in 2022, even after repeated referrals urged the county's child welfare agency to intervene and ensure their safety. In each case, social workers closed repeated referrals as unfounded or inconclusive, referred parents to voluntary services they never completed

There's a reason the term "side hustle" resonated in popular culture during the COVID-19 years. Motivated by the rise of remote work in 2020 and a historic inflation spike in 2022, many Americans chose to take on a second - or third, or fourth - source of income. Today, the pandemic has eased, inflation has cooled, and many workers have been called back to the office. But a new survey suggests American workers still have a taste for extra income.

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After what can generously be called a contentious tenure as the CEO of The Washington Post, Will Lewis is stepping down following mass layoffs this week. Jeff D'Onofrio, former CEO of Tumblr from 2017 to 2022, will step in as acting CEO and publisher. D'Onofrio has been CFO at the Post since June of last year, meaning he's had a front row seat to Jeff Bezos' dismantling of the once storied paper for the last nine months.

David Hutchinson set out for South Carolina late last year in hopes of striking it rich, his family said. But the Massachusetts man vanished soon after, only to be found dead inside a trash can behind an abandoned house. Now, Hutchinson's family is left searching for answers as police in South Carolina investigate his death as a homicide. The 32-year-old former Oakham, Massachusetts, resident

I'm going to talk just about being a church who's made up of missionary disciples who want to go out and make disciples, and also to pass our faith on to the next generations," he said. "I'm going to talk about a church that builds bridges, goes out to the peripheries, engages the world and lives her mission a missionary church.

NPR journalists are at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

They already have the record with 11 Super Bowl appearances. They'll push that record to 12 once the game kicks off on Sunday. The Patriots have a 6-5 record in those 11 games. A win on Sunday would break New England's tie with Pittsburgh for the most Super Bowl wins by a franchise of all time.

Over the past year, waves of federal layoffs have left thousands of government employees and contractor clients suddenly out of work. For foreign intelligence services, that disruption has opened new opportunities. With more former U.S. officials seeking employment or freelance work - often in specialized national security fields - adversaries, namely China, have stepped in, posing as consulting firms, research groups and recruiters.

A New York man is facing conspiracy charges after he allegedly stole goods - including frozen snow crab, blueberries, and more than $400,000 worth of designer cologne - from several warehouses, according to prosecutors. Romoy Forbes, 31, a Jamaican citizen living in Deer Park, N.Y., was charged Thursday with interstate transportation of stolen goods and conspiracy to transport stolen goods, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts said in a statement.