MISSING: The mother of NBC “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie is missing and assumed to be the victim of a crime, according to local authorities in Arizona. They are using such words as “abduction” and “kidnapping.”   The 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was …

SHOW STOPPER: Following an exodus of performers who refuse to appear at the Kennedy Center in Washington while it’s under the control of Donald Trump, the President announced that he’s closing the center for two years for a major construction project. …

HANDCUFFS: Independent journalist and former CNN anchor Don Lemon has been indicted by a federal grand jury and arrested after covering a protest that interrupted a Minneapolis church service last weekend. Lemon was accused under federal law along with protesters who …

FLAWS AND IMPROVEMENTS: White House border czar Tom Homan admitted yesterday that the federal deportation campaign in Minneapolis has been flawed and that there could be a “drawdown” if local officials allow his immigration agents access to local jails.   “I’m not …

BALLOT ISSUE: FBI agents yesterday executed a search warrant at the election center building in Fulton County, Georgia  seeking various records and all “physical ballots from the 2020 general election”  that President Trump has claimed for five years was rigged against him.   The warrant also …

THE USUAL SUSPECTS: Two federal agents fired their guns during the weekend fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, according to a report to Congress by the Department of Homeland Security.   Pretti was legally carrying a holstered pistol. “During the struggle, a …

LA MIGRA:  Gregory Bovino, the lightning-rod chief of the Border Patrol who has personally thrown gas cannisters at protesters is being removed from charge of immigration operations in Minneapolis in an indication that President Trump knows things have gone askew with …

DEATH IN THE MORNING: Protesters filled the streets of Minneapolis and cities across the country following the second fatal shooting at the hands of an immigration officer in that city. As in the killing of Renee Good, a mother of three, …

SNOW DAYS: Air flights and school have been cancelled and grocery shelves emptied in advance of a severe winter storm expected to travel from today in the southwest through Tuesday in Maine.   The storm could affect 200 million people, many of …

ECONOMIC STRIKE: The detainment of a 5-year-old boy by immigration agents has ratcheted up tensions in Minnesota and today hundreds of businesses across the state say they will remain closed, stalling economic activity in protest over ICE’s heavy hand.    Alison Kirwin, …