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By  JOHN SEEWER For more than a decade, loyal viewers of NBC’s “Today” show have come to know Nancy Guthrie, the beloved mother of longtime host Savannah Guthrie. “She’s lived a life of integrity and loyalty,” Savannah Guthrie said four years ago,…

By  COLLIN BINKLEY WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is demanding a $1 billion payment from Harvard University to end his prolonged standoff with the Ivy League campus, doubling the amount he sought previously as both sides appear to move further from reaching…

By  ROD MCGUIRK MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A 13-year-old boy is credited with saving his family after he swam for four hours in choppy waters off the coast of Western Australia to alert authorities that his mother and two younger siblings…

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The first husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with killing his wife at their Delaware home in late December, authorities announced in a news release Tuesday. William Stevenson, 77, of Wilmington was…

By  MATTHEW BROWN and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Graphic videos showing the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk while he spoke to a crowd on a Utah college campus quickly went viral, drawing millions of views. Now, attorneys for the man charged in Kirk’s killing want a state judge to…

By  KIM CHANDLER MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Charles “Sonny” Burton didn’t kill anyone. The state of Alabama could execute him anyway. Burton, 75, is facing execution for his role as an accomplice in a 1991 robbery at an auto parts store…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Central Command says a U.S. Navy fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone that was approaching the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea U.S. announced Tuesday. In an emailed statement Tuesday, U.S. Central…

By  STEPHEN GROVES WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed late Monday to testify in a House investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the Republican leading the probe said an agreement had not yet been…

By  JACQUES BILLEAUD and SEJAL GOVINDARAO TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Investigators found signs of forced entry at the Arizona home of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, a person familiar with the investigation said Tuesday, as the host asked for prayers to help…

By  STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose on Monday following sharp swings that shook financial markets overnight, including tumbles for Asian stocks. Gold and silver prices sank further following their latest wild moves. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 added…

By  BERNARD CONDON and MATT O’BRIEN NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk is joining his space exploration and artificial intelligence ventures into a single company before a massive planned initial public offering for the business later this year. His rocket venture, SpaceX, announced…

By  MIKE SCHNEIDER The Trump administration is eliminating four out of the six locations that had been slated for a practice test to try out new methods for the 2030 census, raising concerns that the U.S. Census Bureau might not learn enough about…

By  REBECCA SANTANA WASHINGTON (AP) — Every Homeland Security officer on the ground in Minneapolis, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday, in the latest fallout after the shooting deaths of two…

By  MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department said Monday that it had taken down several thousand documents and “media” that may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information since it began releasing the latest batch of documents related…

By  ALI SWENSON NEW YORK (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday announced that his department will devote $100 million toward a pilot program addressing homelessness and substance abuse in eight cities, building on an executive order President Donald Trump…

By  STEPHEN GROVES WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chair of a House Committee rejected an offer Monday from former President Bill Clinton to conduct a transcribed interview for a House investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, pushing the threat to hold both Clintons…

By  MICHELLE L. PRICE and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center performing arts center for two years starting in July for construction, his latest proposal to upturn the storied venue since returning to…

By  ADRIAN SAINZ MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Forecasters warned that dangerous extra-cold conditions will persist into Monday morning for a huge swath of the U.S. from the Gulf Coast into New England that was cleaning up after a weekend bomb cyclone brought heavy…

By  JACK DURA Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas, were released following a judge’s order and returned to Minnesota on Sunday, according to Texas Rep. Joaquin…

By  JACQUES BILLEAUD Updated 3:07 PM CST, February 2, 2026 The disappearance of the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie over the weekend is being investigated as a crime based on what authorities saw at her home, an Arizona…

By  LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson faces tough days ahead trying to muscle a federal funding package to passage and prevent a prolonged partial government shutdown as debate intensifies over the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operations. Johnson signaled he is relying…