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84 year-old Nancy Guthrie may have been taken by someone intimately familiar with the interior of her home, according to a new report.In a Thursday report, unnamed sources confided to Radar Online that Nancy Guthrie – the mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie — had cameras inside of her home, which her family had installed in order to be able to respond quickly if she fell or had a medical episode. However, when she was abducted nearly two weeks ago, her kidnappers reportedly knew where those cameras were and destroyed them."The sign

On Monday, President Donald Trump learned a new bridge between Michigan and Ontario was set to save U.S. and Canadian residents the cost of using one aging toll bridge owned by one of his billionaire GOP donors.Atlantic writer Janathan Chait reports Trump “decided this could not stand.”Trump attacked Canada over the new bridge, which would give drivers an alternative to the

President Donald Trump's recent praise of Attorney General Pam Bondi rubbed many of his supporters the wrong way. Now, the president's base appears to be rapidly losing faith in his administration.Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to answer several hours of questions. The attorney general spent much of the hearing launching barbs at Democrats, and responding to their questions with outright hostility. In a Thursday post to his Truth Social account, Trump complimented Bondi on her performance and said she was "fantastic" in her res

A revealing photo from Attorney General Pam Bondi's folder that she kept on hand to insult lawmakers at a Wednesday testimony suggested she was using federal resources to snoop lawmakers’ internet search history. The Independent is now reporting that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wants her to stop.A photographer captured a page out of Bondi’s briefing binder that appeared to show a document detailing the files that Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) had searched on

Republican candidates messed up in New Mexico for the 2026 senate race. The conservative Washington Examiner reported Thursday that no GOP candidate will appear on the ballot for the U.S. Senate race because they failed to meet all requirements. New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver (D) ruled that Republican candidate Christopher Vanden Heuvel is disqualified from the ballot after failing to provide enough signatures to get on the primary ballot. The

The Dispatch reports President Donald Trump has fundraised aggressively since winning reelection, but Republican lobbyists fear whether he will spend wisely to preserve Republican majorities in the House and Senate.Trump is nothing if not a money-maker, reports the Dispatch, and the president now controls “roughly $483 million through eight political entities, including $304.4 million held in MAGA Inc.” Now, he’s looking to spend it, but nobody’s sure where.“…[T]op Trump strategists directing the effort aren’t saying how much money is available for candidate campaigns — and some GOP insiders d

One senior-level official in President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) has been fired, after she clashed with the White House on a case she was prosecuting.CNN reported Thursday that Gail Slater — who was an assistant attorney general overseeing the DOJ's antitrust division — has been terminated after being in her role for roughly a year. According to CNN's Kaitlan Collins' unnamed sources within the DOJ, Slater had been "repeatedly at odds with Attorney General Pam Bondi and the West Wing for months." Slater addressed her apparent firing

Several New York Times opinion columnists gathered to share their thoughts on President Donald Trump, warning of what they see as his efforts to unravel America’s democratic order and institutions.E.J. Dionne warned of what he called “regime change” inside the U.S. by President Trump. Dionne said that “we have to face up to” Americans “overlooking” how much Trump is “actually trying to fundamentally change and destroy, really, the traditional American system.” He cited the shootings of Minnesota’s Renee Good and Alex Pretti, as an example: �

Donald Trump's administration and allies are rarely known to retreat from controversial statements, but that is precisely what Billy Long, nominee to be ambassador to Iceland, has done after backlash to a joke about making the country the "52nd state," according to Politico.Long previously served as a Republican congressman from Mississippi for over a decade, departing the office to make a failed Senate bid in 2022. He also served as Trump's IRS commissioner after being confirmed by the Senate in June, but was removed from that office just two months later as the president prepared to nominate him for the Iceland ambassadorship. Long's

Although liberal economist Paul Krugman and Never Trump conservative Jonathan V. Last are on different parts of the United States' political spectrum, Last opens his February 12 column for The Bulwark by noting a concept he learned from Krugman: Dornbusch's Law. The idea comes from the late German economist Rudi Dornbusch, who warned that when it comes to the economy, a "crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought."