Investigators looking into the disappearance of US TV host Savannah Guthrie’s mother have found signs of forced entry at her Arizona home.

Savannah Guthrie is a main co-anchor on Today, the morning show on NBC News, the US sister network of Sky News.

A person familiar with the inquiry told the Associated Press that evidence in the home of Nancy Guthrie, 84, indicated that she had been kidnapped during the night.

They said that several of Nancy Guthrie’s personal items, including her mobile phone, wallet and her car, had been left in her property.

Investigators do not believe at this point that the abduction was part of a robbery, home invasion or kidnapping-for-ransom plot, the person said.

Police officers are currently reviewing information from licence plate cameras and surveillance video from nearby homes while working to analyse data from local phone towers.

Nancy Guthrie was first reported missing by her family after she failed to appear at church on Sunday.

She was last seen at her home near Tucson, Arizona, the night before at around 9.30pm.

In a social media post made on Monday, Savannah Guthrie described her mother as “a woman of deep conviction, a good and faithful servant”.

She asked supporters to “raise your prayers with us and believe with us that she will be lifted by them in this very moment. Bring her home”.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos urged whoever has Nancy Guthrie to free her because she could die without access to medication.

He said: “If she’s alive right now, her meds are vital. I can’t stress that enough. It’s been better than 24 hours, and the family tells us if she doesn’t have those meds, it can become fatal.”

He added that investigators has taken samples that they hoped would provide at least part of a DNA profile.

People searching for Nancy Guthrie used drones and search dogs and were supported by volunteers and Border Patrol.

Search crews have now been pulled back, however.

Mr Nanos said: “We don’t see this as a search mission so much as it is a crime scene.”

He previously said that Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance was not “dementia related”.

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“She’s as sharp as a tack,” he said. “The family wants everyone to know that this isn’t someone who just wandered off.”

Savannah Guthrie often brought her mother on Today as a guest.

Speaking on the show in 2022 on Nancy Guthrie’s 80th birthday, she said: “She has met unthinkable challenges in her life with grit, without self-pity, with determination and always, always with unshakeable faith.

“She loves us, her family, fiercely, and her selflessness and sacrifice for us, her steadfastness and her unmovable confidence is the reason any of us grew up to do anything.”

The House of Representatives passed a federal funding bill aimed at ending the partial government shutdown on Tuesday, which will bring the four-day standoff to a close shortly after the legislation gets to President Donald Trump’s desk.

The funding bill is a compromise struck between Senate Democrats and the White House that would fund roughly 97% of the federal government through the end of fiscal 2026.

Trump played an integral role in hashing out the new deal and quelling a subsequent rebellion by conservative lawmakers to get it over the finish line.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., signaled he was strongly against the plan, despite his Senate counterpart’s role in putting it together. But several Democrats bucked his concerns in the end to vote in favor of it.

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The House of Representatives sent a bill to end the government shutdown to President Donald Trump’s desk after several Democrats bucked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ warnings the left would not support it. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Democrats had initially walked away from a bipartisan House deal to finish funding the federal government through the end of fiscal 2026 on Sept. 30, rebelling against a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over Trump’s handling of unrest in Minneapolis.

Their mutiny left roughly 78% of the government’s yearly funding hanging in the balance because the DHS bill was lumped into a wider package authorizing budgets for the departments of War, Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Education.

The deal struck between Senate Democrats and the White House would fully fund those remaining areas while only extending current funding levels for DHS through Feb. 13, in order to give Democrats and Republicans time to hash out a longer-term bipartisan plan.

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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters on Tuesday that the legislation would succeed, though he hinted at some dissatisfaction with how negotiations played out.

“This is not my preferred route. I wanted to keep all six bills together,” Johnson said. “But listen, the president agreed with Schumer that they would separate Homeland, and we’ll do that, and we’ll handle it. … The Republicans are going to do the responsible thing.”

The Senate’s federal funding deal survived an important hurdle late Tuesday morning, clearing a House-wide “rule vote” to allow for lawmakers to debate the measure and set up a vote on final passage by early afternoon.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., walks from the chamber to speak with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 12, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

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It comes after a pair of House conservatives announced they would be backing off their threats to sink the legislation during the rule vote if the legislation was not paired with an unrelated election integrity bill called the SAVE America Act.

Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., warned they would not support the bill during the rule vote without the SAVE America Act attached but pivoted on Monday night after a conversation with the White House.

“As of right now, with the current agreement that we have, as well as discussions, we will both be a yes on the rule,” Luna said. “There is something called a standing filibuster that would effectively allow Sen. Thune to put voter ID on the floor of the Senate. We are hearing that that is going well, and he is considering that…so we are very happy about that.”

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The SAVE America Act would require voter ID at the polls and create a new proof of citizenship mandate in the voter registration process.

But Luna’s insistence that Thune had embraced the standing filibuster, a little-known and antiquated legislative maneuver, appears it was not quite accurate.

Still, Thune said that there were Senate Republicans who “expressed an interest in that, so we’re going to have a conversation about it. But there weren’t any commitments made.”

He noted that forcing the standing filibuster to try and pass the SAVE America Act, or any of its variations coming from the House, would be a massive drain on time in the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks at a press conference with other members of Senate Republican leadership following a policy luncheon in Washington, Oct. 28, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Doing so “ties up floor time indefinitely,” Thune said. That’s because of rules that guarantee any senator gets up to two speeches on a bill. That, coupled with the clock being reset by amendments to the bill, means that the Senate could effectively be paralyzed for months as Republicans chip away at Democratic opposition.

“There’s always an opportunity cost,” Thune said.

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“Well, at any time there’s an amendment offered, and that amendment is tabled, it resets the clock,” he continued. “The two-speech rule kicks in again. So let’s say, you know, every Democrat enator talks for two hours. That’s 940 hours on the floor.”

It’s not immediately clear when Trump will sign the funding bill, but it’s expected the White House will want to move fast. The longest government shutdown in history, which lasted 43 days, just ended in November.

The ex-husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with first-degree murder after the death of his wife.

William Stevenson, 77, was indicted on Monday by a grand jury in New Castle County, Delaware, in connection with the death of 64-year-old Linda Stevenson last year.

Mrs Biden married Stevenson in February 1970, when she was 18 years old and a student at the University of Delaware, and he was 23.

They were only married for five years. In March of 1975, she met then Democratic senator for Delaware Joe Biden, and a civil divorce between her and Stevenson was granted in May of that year.

New Castle County Police said Stevenson was taken into custody at the home in Oak Hill without incident on Monday afternoon.

He has since been arraigned and sent to the Howard Young Correction Institution in Wilmington, where he has been unable to pay a $500,000 (£365,207) cash bail.

According to authorities, at around 11.16pm on 28 December, officers responded to a reported domestic dispute at a residence in Oak Hill, just west of Wilmington in New Castle County.

Upon entering the home, emergency services found Mrs Stevenson unresponsive in the living room. She was later pronounced dead at the scene.

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Delaware state police say Mrs Stevenson’s body has been turned over to the Delaware Division of Forensic Science, where a post mortem examination will be conducted to determine the cause and manner of her death.

The office of Jill and ex-president Joe Biden declined to comment to Sky’s US partner network NBC News.

Olympic hopeful Katie Uhlaender reacted to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)’s ruling after she made a case to join Team USA for the Milan Cortina Winter Games.

The CAS said it had no jurisdiction to consider her case against Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton (BCS) coach Joe Cecchini and the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) over the results of the IBSF North American Cup Race and Skeleton qualification for a spot in the Winter Olympics.

Uhlaender appeared on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” and told anchor Dana Perino that she didn’t necessarily disagree with the ruling but she is now at a crossroads.

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Katie Uhlaender (USA) competes in ladies skeleton heat 4 during the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games at Olympic Sliding Centre on Feb. 17, 2018. (Soobum Im/USA TODAY Sports)

“I don’t know that I disagree that it was out of their jurisdiction to be fair. The dispute happened prior to the 10-day window,” she said. “What I want to happen is – something. I don’t know what the solution is at this point because I’ve exhausted all of these pathways within the system and from what I could understand, it will be up to the IOC and potentially the IBSF to allocate an extra spot for extreme circumstances. But we don’t know who should ask for that or exactly how to do it. This is where I’d ask (Vice President) Vance for help.”

Uhlaender sought qualification after she missed out on the chance to qualify when Team Canada withdrew athletes from the North American Cup race in early January, reducing the number of points that the event could award. The point reduction made it impossible for Uhlaender to earn enough to qualify.

An investigation by the IBSF found that Team Canada intentionally manipulated the points at the competition in Lake Placid, New York. However, the IBSF also did not revise any of the results or deliver any penalties as a result. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) petitioning to have Uhlaender granted a spot. Fifteen other countries have joined in on that petition.

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Katie Uhlaender of Team United States poses for a portrait during the Team USA Beijing 2022 Olympic shoot in Irvine, California, on Sept. 12, 2021. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images for Team USA)

“This is all within the rules. There’s nothing wrong with those things. And people can be strategic in the races that they participate. And she was doing that, and other nations were doing that, because you want to put your best foot forward,” Cecchini said. “This is a system flaw, if anything. But we were within the rules.”

Cecchini also took aim directly at Uhlaender, saying she isn’t a “top-tier athlete.”

“I don’t really wanna speak negatively about Katie, but Katie was not on the World Cup team. She wasn’t a top-tier athlete in that program anymore. She was at the end of her career. I would personally would rather race against Katie. She’s not as competitive as the other athletes,” he said. “It’s probably really unfair to say and not really where I want to go with this but that’s where we are with that.”

Uhlaender said on Fox News Channel that Cecchini wasn’t really addressing the issue at heart.

“I think that response says it all because he’s not addressing the issue at all, which is that he intentionally tricked all the countries into thinking this race was full points,” she said. “He urged me to come race there and then, at the last second, he pulled all of his athletes. He didn’t hide it. He told me, he told another coach that he did it for the points, and he knew he was going to hurt me and he knew he was gonna hurt the Denmark athlete and the Swiss girl might have to retire because of this and he didn’t care. He said he wanted to eliminate any possibilities that could threaten Canada’s second spot even if it was just 1%. And the sad part is, there was no threat.

“At the end of the races, the Korean athlete was not gonna surpass Canada. He hurt all of us just because he wanted to eliminate any possibility, which is not in the spirit of sport. And that’s the point. It’s not that it wasn’t within the rules – you should be able to pull athletes for legitimate reasons. But not to hurt people.”

Team USA skeleton hopeful Katie Uhlaender poses for a photo during the 2018 U.S. Olympic Team media summit at the Grand Summit Hotel on Sept. 25, 2017. (Kevin Jairaj/USA TODAY Sports)

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Uhlaender added that she had hoped to be able to compete in her six Olympic Games and join Lindsey Vonn as the only two athletes to have competed in 2002 and 2026.

As of now, it doesn’t seem like it will happen.

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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