Today show host tells potential kidnappers of mother Nancy that family is prepared to pay for safe return

Savannah Guthrie told the potential kidnappers of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, on Saturday that the family is prepared to pay for her safe return, as the frantic search for the 84-year-old entered a seventh day.

“We received your message, and we understand. We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her,” she said in a video posted on social media, flanked by her siblings. “This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”

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© Photograph: Savannah Guthrie/Instagram/Reuters

© Photograph: Savannah Guthrie/Instagram/Reuters

Lead singer died on Saturday, months after he announced that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer

Brad Arnold, the lead singer of the Grammy-nominated rock band 3 Doors Down, has died, months after he announced that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer. He was 47.

The band said in a statement on Saturday that Arnold “passed away peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, in his sleep after his courageous battle with cancer”.

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© Photograph: Denise Truscello/WireImage

© Photograph: Denise Truscello/WireImage

An Israeli bobsled pilot says the apartment that he and some fellow Olympians have been using while finishing their training for the Milan Cortina Winter Games was robbed Saturday, with passports and “thousands of dollars” worth of other items among what was taken.

Eight children including two infants among dead in vehicle carrying displaced people, says Sudan Doctors Network

A drone attack by a paramilitary group has hit a vehicle carrying displaced families in central Sudan, killing at least 24 people, including eight children, a doctors’ group said on Saturday.

The attack by the Rapid Support Forces took place close to the city of Er Rahad in North Kordofan province, according to the Sudan Doctors Network, which tracks the country’s war. The vehicle was transporting displaced people who fled fighting in the Dubeiker area, the group said in a statement. Among the dead children were two infants.

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© Photograph: El Tayeb Siddig/Reuters

© Photograph: El Tayeb Siddig/Reuters

“All good,” Vonn told The Associated Press.

To access the files, lawmakers will need to give the Justice Department 24 hours’ notice

The US has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach an agreement to end the nearly four-year war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters.

The joint statement, released Friday, came after US President Donald Trump announced his plan last week to reduce import tariffs on the South Asian country

Investigators have found that the home’s doorbell camera was disconnected early Sunday and that software data recorded movement at the home minutes later.

The blue-chip Dow hit an all-time high of 49,826.97 in intraday trading Friday.

A deputy chief of Russian military intelligence was shot and wounded in Moscow on Friday in an attack that follows a series of assassinations.

US Southern Command said on social media that the boat “was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.”

Thirteen players were either in quarantine or isolation due to a norovirus that began affecting the team on Tuesday night.

Gov. Josh Shapiro said on the social platform X that the state’s police, emergency management agency and health department had responded to the fire.

LaMonte McLemore, a founding member of vocal group The 5th Dimension, died Tuesday at his home in Las Vegas surrounded by family, his representative Jeremy Westby said in a statement.

The 32-year-old Mark McMorris, making his fourth appearance at the Olympics, was getting ready for Thursday night's qualifying, set for about 24 hours before the opening ceremony.

New Mexico officials this week warned people to avoid consuming unpasteurized dairy products following the death.

A new kind of pill sharply reduced artery-clogging cholesterol in people who remain at high risk of heart attacks despite taking statins, researchers reported Wednesday.

Armed extremists killed at least 162 people during attacks on two villages in western Nigeria, a lawmaker said Wednesday, in one of the deadliest assaults in recent months.