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The family of Nancy Guthrie – the missing mother of US TV anchor Savannah Guthrie – who has not been seen for seven weeks, have renewed their appeal for public help.In a statement issued to coincide with a special report on local TV station KVOA, they asked people in and around Tucson, Arizona, where the 84-year-old lives, not to forget her case, saying they “hold the key to finding resolution”. Her daughter, who co-anchors the morning programme on Sky’s US partner network, NBC, has led the campaign to find her and was one of the signatories of the statement, along…

Sir Keir Starmer is to chair a COBRA meeting today, Sky News understands.Cabinet ministers are expected to join him, including the chancellor, foreign secretary, energy secretary, as well as the governor of the Bank of England, to discuss the cost-of-living impacts of the ongoing Iran war and plans to help households. COBRA meetings are the government’s regular way to respond to a national emergency.Politics Hub: Follow all the latest newsThe prime minister last chaired a COBRA meeting on Thursday to discuss the UK’s response to Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure in the Gulf. He also chaired a meeting in late…

The number of confirmed and suspected meningitis cases in the outbreak in Kent has fallen to 29.The total marks a decrease from 34 cases reported on Saturday, and includes two – a 21-year-old student at the University of Kent and a sixth form pupil at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Faversham – who died from the virus last weekend. It includes confirmed cases and those that remain under investigation.Read more: The symptoms, treatments and if you need the vaccine Explaining the fall in the total, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said: “Some cases initially classified as confirmed cases have…

Chappell Roan has said she is “really sad” after claims her security guard made the daughter of footballer Jorginho cry. The former Premier League player wrote on Instagram on Saturday that the singer’s security guard spoke “in an extremely aggressive manner” to his wife and daughter after they saw the popstar at a hotel in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Jorginho, 34, who played for Arsenal and Chelsea, but is now with Brazil’s Flamengo, said his 11-year-old daughter was “extremely shaken and cried a lot” after the interaction.He also hit out at the singer, adding: “Without your fans, you would be nothing.”…

Sharp rises in the price of oil and gas as a result of the war in Iran have set off an economic chain reaction which is already hitting people in the pocket.The benchmark Brent crude oil remains around $110 a barrel, compared to around $72 before the war. And a unit of wholesale gas now stands at 150p – almost double the 77p per unit it was just three weeks ago.As a result, it is thought that inflation – which was anticipated to fall to 2% by the end of the year – could, in fact, now reach 5%, according…

Preliminary readings of sites in Arizona and southern California indicate that the US has suffered its hottest March day on record.Large parts of the southwest of the United States are trapped in a dangerous heatwave, made worse in some places by a heat dome, with temperatures reaching around 43C (110F) at testing sites. The heatwave has shattered March temperature records all over the southwest of the country, with hot weather arriving months ahead of schedule. Image: A new air conditioning unit is installed during record-breaking heat. Pic: AP “This is what climate change looks like in real time: extremes pushing…

Video has been released of Justin Timberlake being arrested by officers who suspected him of drink driving.The footage shows the pop star struggling to perform sobriety tests requiring him to talk in a straight line and stand on one leg during the incident in an affluent beach town in New York’s Hamptons in June 2024. At one point he tells officers: “These are like really hard tests.” Image: Pic: Sag Harbor Police Department/AP The footage includes Timberlake being stopped after Sag Harbor police said he ran a stop sign in the village centre, veered out of his lane and got…

Average annual energy bills will rise by £332 in July, more than double the previously anticipated increase, due to high oil and gas prices driven by the war in Iran, trusted forecasters predicted.If it comes to pass, it will mean the most expensive typical annual bills in three years, at a high last seen in July 2023. Less than three weeks ago, in the early days of US-Israeli strikes on Iran, that rise was expected to be £160, according to estimates from research firm Cornwall Insight.But as the oil and gas prices spiked and remained about $110 per barrel of…

A US jury has found Elon Musk misled investors by deliberately driving down Twitter’s share price in the months leading up to his $44bn (£33bn) takeover of the social media company.But the tech tycoon, and the world’s richest person, was cleared of some fraud allegations in the civil trial in San Francisco. The case centred on a class-action lawsuit, filed just before Mr Musk took control of Twitter, which he later renamed X.Jurors were asked to decide if two tweets and comments Mr Musk made on a podcast in May 2022 amounted to him intentionally defrauding Twitter shareholders, who sold…

👉 Listen to This Is Why on your podcast app 👈Saturday Night Live has launched the careers of Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell among many others in its 50-year run on NBC in the US. It’s now coming to the UK with Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan and Riz Ahmed hosting the first shows.As in the US, there’s an ensemble cast of comedy players – so how important could SNL UK be for the comedy scene?Niall speaks to the creator and host of the Saturday Night Network podcast, Jon Schneider, about what makes SNL so successful and asks comedian…