BLOOD SIMPLE: In what may be the most significant break in the case, The FBI and Pima Couty Sheriff released doorbell video of a masked man at the front door of Nancy Guthrie’s home outside Tucson the night she was abducted.

  Guthrie’s daughter, “Today Show” anchor Savannah Guthrie, wrote on Instagram that, “Someone out there recognizes this person.” 

  Investigators detained a man in a traffic stop and released him.

  The man in the video was wearing a knit mask with holes for the mouth and eyes. It’s a mask no one wears skiing anymore. The man had a backpack and a holstered gun at his waist. He approaches Guthrie’s door and tries to block the camera with a gloved hand. He then pulls plants from beside the walkway and appears to try using them to block the camera, which is later disconnected.  

  Investigators had originally said they were unable to retrieve video from the camera but said yesterday they were able to access it with “residual data,” basically, all that stuff that never really dies in the digital world.

THE SHOOTING GALLERY: Nine people were killed yesterday and 25 wounded in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, a remote community in British Columbia. Seven people were found dead in Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, including a person believed to be the shooter. Two others were found dead in a local residence. 

FIVE RINGS:  The US women’s hockey team shut out Canada 5-0, extending their Olympic unbeaten streak to 4-0. They have outscored their opponents by a cumulative 20-1 and face off against Italy on Friday.

  American skater Ilia Malinin, known as the “Quad God,” was leading the men’s singles competition after a short program with backflips and cartwheels.  

  And, all that’s gold does not glister. Several medal-winning Olympians have had their medal come apart. The loop that holds the ribbon pulls out, especially when they are jumping up and down in victorious excitement.

DENIAL AIN’T A RIVER: The FBI seizure of election ballots and records from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia was based on a referral from a long time election denier in the Trump circle who now holds a position in the administration, according to the affidavit released yesterday.

  “The FBI criminal investigation originated from a referral sent by Kurt Olsen, Presidentially appointed Director of Election Security and Integrity,” the affidavit said. Olsen was a player in attempts to overturn the 2020 election and has fostered false claims about election rigging.

  The affidavit, which relied on previously debunked claims about fraud and error,  draws a straight line between the White House and the Justice Department investigation. Many of the claims in the affidavit refer to conspiracy theories about elections in Georgia, including claims about fraudulent and duplicate absent ballots, election machine tabulator tapes, and missing ballot images.

  The FBI took at least 656 boxes of records which now are in the hands of an administration that claims they already know there was fraud.

EVERYONE KNEW: A former Palm Beach police chief told the FBI that back in the 2000s when sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was under investigation one of the first people who called him was Donald Trump.

  Michael Reiter said Trump told him, “Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this.” Trump has since claimed he knew nothing about Epstein’s activities.

  Reiter did not report the conversation to the FBI until 10 years later. A record of the conversation is in the Epstein files.

  Reiter reported that Trump said investigators should pay particular attention to Trump’s companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, because “She is Evil.” The account also says that when once when Trump was in Epstein’s company teenagers were present and that he “got the hell out of there.” 

THE REGIME:

— A federal appeals court this week ruled to allowed President Trump to end deportation protections for more than 60,000 migrants from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua, as part of his push to curtail a program for migrants fleeing instability in their home countries.

  The precedent for ending protection status was set by the Supreme Court when it allowed the expiration of protection from deportation for Venezuelan immigrants.

— The Food and Drug Administration refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine in another blow to the technology that’s a target of some Trump administration health officials. The FDA said Moderna’s  application didn’t contain an “adequate and well-controlled” trial because the control arm didn’t reflect the “best-available standard of care in the United States at the time of the study.”

  MRNA vaccines are based on genetics. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed without scientific evidence that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are the “deadliest vaccine ever made”.

— The gay pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan was taken down in accordance with a Trump administration policy banning “non-agency” flags in the national parks.

  The Stonewall Inn, which still exists, gave its name to the 1969 street riots sparked by outrage over police raids on gay bars. The Stonewall is considered to be ground zero for the modern gay rights movement and taking down the Pride flag is a big slap. 

THE SPIN RACK: Ford Motor says that losses on its electric vehicles will continue for another three years. They lost $4.8 billion in 2025 and expect to lose $4 billion to $4.5 billion in this year.

BELOW THE FOLD:  In a decidedly un-Olympic moment, Norwegian biathlon bronze medalist Sturla Holm Laegreid confessed to the press that he had cheated on his girlfriend and she broke up with him. 

  “Six months ago I met the love of my life. The world’s most beautiful, sweetest person. And three months ago I made the biggest mistake of my life and cheated on her,” Laegreid said, fighting back tears.

  He said he did everything to win her back, including, it seems, confessing to the world. It was a gold medal performance.

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