Savannah Guthrie recorded a desperate plea for help in finding her 84-year-old mother in this “hour of desperation.”

The NBC host’s message was posted on Instagram as a 5 p.m. deadline from possible kidnappers approached Monday afternoon.

“Hi there everybody, I wanted to come on and just share a few thoughts as we enter into another ...Read more

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Abington Township neighbors filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Pennsylvania’s first couple, in what is the latest clash over security upgrades to his personal home following an arson attack on the governor’s Harrisburg residence while Shapiro and his family slept inside.

In the suit, filed in U.S. ...Read more

U.S. Vice President JD Vance signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Armenia on Monday, pledging as much as $9 billion in potential investment as the South Caucasus country seeks to reduce its long-standing reliance on Russia for energy.

The accord, known as a Section 123 agreement, establishes the legal framework for U.S. companies ...Read more

DENVER — Federal and state lawmakers unveiled legislation Monday drafted in response to the Evergreen High School shooting in Colorado, aiming to require social media companies to respond more quickly when investigators are checking out potential warning signs in online posts.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen unveiled a federal bill that would ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler, appearing in Edgewood alongside sheriffs and leaders from several other Maryland jurisdictions Monday afternoon, called on Gov. Wes Moore to reject a bill ending local law enforcement cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE.

The bill, which passed both the...Read more

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., has endorsed Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell for California governor, the Swalwell campaign and a Schiff spokesperson said Monday.

Schiff, one of the state’s most prominent Democrats, previously served with Swalwell on the House Intelligence Committee, where they riled Republicans by investigating President Trump ...Read more

LONDON — The Epstein files are threatening to bring down not the U.S. president who was once his buddy but a prime minister who never met the disgraced financier and sex trafficker.

U.K. Premier Keir Starmer’s future hangs in the balance after the release of 3.5 million pages of Epstein-related documents by the U.S. Justice Department.

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department took steps Monday to unwind the contempt of Congress case against Stephen Bannon, who already served four months in prison for a conviction that he has appealed to the Supreme Court.

A jury convicted the President Donald Trump ally in 2022 for his refusal to testify and provide documents to the House select...Read more

On the eve of Florida’s first execution of 2026, churches and people of faith across Florida are speaking out against the death penalty, an issue they feel stands in opposition to their religious and moral beliefs.

“We are gathering to say that state sanctioned executions are wrong on many levels, and as persons of faith we urge restorative...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado House has passed a bill that would allow nonprofits, school districts and transit agencies to build housing on their land without their local government’s approval — the latest salvo in the legislature’s yearslong crusade for land-use reform.

House Bill 1001, the first bill introduced in that chamber this year, ...Read more

Investigators in the Nancy Guthrie abduction are consulting with artificial intelligence experts to examine ransom notes to determine the validity and possible origins of the messages, sources told The Times on Monday.

As a second deadline given for the Guthries to pay $6 million in bitcoin at 5 p.m. Monday rapidly approaches, the family is ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Immigration-rights attorneys will get to see for themselves the conditions inside the Whipple Federal Building and visit clients on Monday, following a judge’s ruling granting them access to the facility.

U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Brasel over the weekend ordered that attorneys be given full access to the detention ...Read more

King Charles III has broken his silence amid new allegations about his brother, the former Prince Andrew, and his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.

Buckingham Palace announced Monday that His Royal Majesty will “support” U.K. police investigating reports that the ex royal, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, gave confidential ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh will likely be the most talked-about person at Wednesday’s South Carolina Supreme Court hearing to appeal his 2023 double murder guilty convictions.

But Murdaugh won’t be there.

Nor will he be able to view the proceedings on livestream at the Supreme Court’s internet site. Although ...Read more

Cuban authorities have notified international airlines that they won’t be able to refuel at the island’s airports, as the country’s energy crisis deepens following President Donald Trump’s steps to cut the island’s oil supply in a push for negotiations.

The Federal Aviation Administration published notices Sunday alerting U.S. ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former New York Mayor Eric Adams was fined $4,000 for a mayoral campaign trail stunt last summer during which he handed out whistles for female reporters he said might feel “unsafe” talking to then-political opponent Andrew Cuomo.

Adams broke rules guarding government resources by having staffers on the city’s dime distribute...Read more

President Donald Trump has repeatedly maintained that he had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes.

But in July 2006, just as Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal case became public, Trump called then-Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter to tell him that Epstein’s activities with teenaged girls were well known in both New York and Palm ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration mounted a multipronged legal effort Monday to turn back an order to restore federal funding for the construction of the $16 billion Hudson River tunnel, getting the deadline to pay up pushed back by several days.

Attorneys for the federal Department of Transportation asked a judge to pause a temporary ...Read more

Roughly 1-in-5 Pennsylvania Obamacare plan enrollees dropped health coverage for 2026 due to "unprecedented cost increases," the state's online health insurance marketplace reported Monday.

Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act health insurance plans, also called Obamacare, totaled about 486,000 for 2026, with about 92,000 dropping their health...Read more