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Feb 6, 2026 - World

The FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Department were investigating a "new message" Friday in connection with the abduction of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, according to reports. The message was sent to KOLD via email and is under review by investigators. KOLD had originally received the original alleged ransom note, anchor Mary Coleman wrote in a post on X. The station had apparently received the message at 11:45 a.m. Friday and immediately sent it to the FBI and sheriff's department, who were trying to determine its authenticity, Briana Whitney reported via X. It was sent through a service that cannot be traced back. Guthrie, the mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie, vanished sometime overnight between Saturday and Sunday from her home in Tucson, Arizona. The family previously released two video messages asking for the abductors to give them a sign that Nancy was OK and telling her captors that they were ready to talk. Pima County sheriff's officials released the following statement: "The FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department are aware of a new message regarding Nancy Guthrie. Investigators are actively inspecting the information provided in the message for its authenticity. While this is one new piece of information, the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department are still asking anyone with tips to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI. The FBI continues to offer a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the recovery of Nancy Guthrie and/or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance."BREAKING: A second note has been sent to our sister station from Nancy Guthrie’s alleged abductor. Here’s what we know.#nancyguthrie #abduction #truecrime #investigation #ransom pic.twitter.com/SkLHBRpQmY— Briana Whitney (@BrianaWhitney) February 6, 2026

Feb 6, 2026 - World

Vice President JD Vance was reportedly booed at the Milan Cortina Winter Games as U.S. Olympians denounced President Donald Trump's administration.A video shared on social media showed the audience booing Vance as the camera panned by him during the Opening Ceremony on Friday."Those are a lot of boos for him," one announcer noted.At a press conference, members of the U.S. figure skating team were asked about the Trump administration's use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to crack down on migrants."I feel heartbroken about what's happened in the United States when, you know, I'm pretty sure you're referencing ICE and some of the protests and things like that," freestyle skater Chris Lillis told reporters. "I think that as a country, we need to focus on respecting everybody's rights and making sure that we're treating our citizens as well as anybody with love and respect.""It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now, I think. It's a little hard," skater Hunter Hess agreed. "There's obviously a lot going on that I'm not the biggest fan of, and I think a lot of people aren't.""Just because I'm wearing the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the U.S.," he added. "So yeah, I just kind of want to do it for my friends and my family and the people that support me getting here."

Feb 6, 2026 - World

Mockery erupted online Friday over Attorney General Pam Bondi's comment that "Donald Trump never forgets."Bondi was speaking at a press conference where the Department of Justice announced an arrest of a suspect in the 2012 Benghazi attack when she made the remark. The internet was quick to point out a few times when the president had a mix up over his memory."Two weeks ago he forgot the name of the territory - Greenland - that he was threatening to annex during his rambling speech at Davos. Three times," Jimmy Rushton, a foreign policy and security analyst based in Ukraine, wrote on X."The same guy who thinks airports existed during the Revolutionary War doesn’t 'forget' lmao ok," user John Brown wrote on X."He can barely remember things from one hour to the next these days," user Bill the Beaver wrote on X."In truth, Trump can’t recall if there’s a conflict between Azerbaijan, Albania, or Armenia," user Anna Baxter wrote on X."Neither do we," user Dianne McKenna wrote on X.Bondi: "Donald Trump never forgets" pic.twitter.com/kvZ2hBfUiX— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 6, 2026

Feb 6, 2026 - World

Police investigating whether blast that injured at least 169 at Friday prayers in Islamabad was suicide attackAn explosion has ripped through a Shia mosque on the outskirts of Pakistan’s capital during Friday prayers, killing 31 people and injuring at least 169 others, according to officials. Police said they were investigating whether the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.There were fears the death toll from the blast at the Khadija al-Kubra mosque in Islamabad could rise as some of the injured were reported to be in a critical condition. Television footage and social media images showed police and residents transporting the injured to nearby hospitals. Continue reading...

Feb 6, 2026 - World

Donald Trump could sink the GOP's midterm chances even further should he take military action in Iran.Whether the president does so is yet to be seen, but CNN political analyst Stephen Collinson believes the administration may take action. It would follow strikes made last year on Iran, and could plunge the US into a war with the potential to go wrong enough that it would affect the voting intention at home. Collinson wrote, "Iran, the seat of the ancient Persian civilization, is more contiguous and less plagued by sectarian divides than Iraq — which splintered after the US invasion in 2003. But no one wants to test the impact of a power vacuum if the government falls, in the absence of any clear path to a return to democracy."And the short, sharp thunderclap strike of the type Trump prefers and that doesn’t conflict with the no-foreign-quagmires mantra of his MAGA movement may not be sufficient to topple the clerical regime in Tehran."But a longer military engagement with uncertain consequences would severely test Americans’ trust in their president. A war that went wrong could devastate Republicans in November’s already unpromising midterm elections."Trump may also be bolstered by his administration's recent activities in Venezuela. Collinson added, "A sense of hubris has gathered around the White House since the toppling of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro last month. "But major US combat deaths in an Iranian war could effectively drain all the power and legitimacy from Trump’s second term." Part of the problem too, Collinson says, is that Trump has no problem in kindling a counter protest in Iran. "Trump’s predecessors avoiding encouraging a counter-revolution in Iran because they feared providing a pretext for even more fierce repression against demonstrators seen as US proxies," he wrote. "Trump had no such qualms and his vow that the US was “locked and loaded” to punish Tehran for its crackdowns conceivably brought more people onto the streets."One option for Trump would be to ink a rudimentary deal and hype it as a great victory — the great salesman’s certainly done this before.This might placate war-weary US voters, but it would send a clear message of a climbdown to US adversaries and tarnish his global strongman aura."