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Boycott of the USA – “Hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk”
Updated on 02/08/2026 – 01:32 amReading time: 23 minutes
International guests avoid the USA – blow to the economy. Donald Trump shares video denigrating the Obamas. All developments in the news blog.
Nancy Guthrie’s children plead for their mother’s safe return, telling the would-be kidnapper, “We will pay,” in a new video posted today by her daughter Savannah Guthrie, host of the “Today” show. “We received your message and we understand,” Savannah Guthrie said in the video she posted to her Instagram account while sitting next to her brother and sister.
“We now ask you to give us back our mother so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we can find peace. This is very important to us and we will pay.” The new video, released a few days after the first video with an emotional appeal from the siblings, shows Savannah Guthrie again between her older sister Annie Guthrie and her older brother Camron Guthrie on the seventh day after the disappearance of their 84-year-old mother.
The cold continues to have a firm grip on the US East Coast after two severe winter storms. For New York and large parts of the Northeast, meteorologists predicted double-digit temperatures and dangerously low temperatures for the weekend. Wind chill values of up to minus 30 degrees Celsius could be reached in the metropolis – perceived temperatures that are often well below the measured values because strong winds remove heat from the skin. This significantly increases the risk of hypothermia and frostbite.
The publisher and CEO of the Washington Post, Will Lewis, is leaving the newspaper. The paper announced this on Saturday (local time). His resignation follows a wave of layoffs this week. “Difficult decisions were made during my tenure to ensure the future of the Post,” Lewis wrote in a note to employees published by the newspaper.
