Guthrie Case DNA Results Delayed, RFK Fights Processed Foods, Canada Curling Scandal： AM Update 2⧸17
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A new development in the search for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie as Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos says he has ruled out members of her family as suspects for the first time in the investigation into her disappearance.
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It's Tuesday, February 17th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
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Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, for the first time, saying some people have been ruled out as suspects
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in connection with the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie.
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It's important to understand how important the relations between leaders are to the relations between countries.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Hungary on strengthening alliances and navigating global rivalries.
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HHS Secretary RFKJ signaling upcoming action to crack down on ultra-processed foods.
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And Canada dropping the NICE Act on the world stage.
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Both the men's and women's Olympic curling teams facing accusations of cheating.
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A new development in the search for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie.
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he has ruled out members of Nancy's family as suspects for the first time.
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In a statement released yesterday afternoon, Sheriff Nanos writing,
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To be clear, the Guthrie family, to include all siblings and spouses,
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has been cleared as possible suspects in this case.
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The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case.
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To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel.
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The clarification coming just one day after the sheriff told the Daily Mail that
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and on the same day as a senior member of law enforcement, familiar with this case,
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told the Megyn Kelly show that no one had been ruled out.
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There's no indication this is the result of any new evidence.
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We asked the sheriff's department what changed between his first two statements
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to allow investigators to definitively rule out the Guthrie family,
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Fox News' Matt Finn questioning the department on whether DNA evidence helped clear the family.
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And I will not stand quiet when they are re-victimized.
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News Nation's Libby Dean reporting last night that the DNA from the gloves,
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is still undergoing quality control in the private Florida lab
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and has not yet been compared against the FBI's Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS.
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The quality control process typically takes about 24 hours.
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but it's yet another delay for the Guthrie family awaiting justice in this case.
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MK True Crime host Phil Holloway, a lawyer and former law enforcement officer himself,
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breaking down Sheriff Nanos' decision to reverse himself and publicly rule out the family yesterday.
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Well, it seems like it might be a little premature,
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until you know who your suspect or suspects, in the plural, might be.
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I think that this statement is more of a reflection of pressure that the sheriff is undoubtedly receiving
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because the public has speculated and many have claimed that certain family members might be considered suspects.
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So I imagine the sheriff is under some political pressure to try to tamp that down.
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But I think he may have miscalculated because this statement is simply, I think, doing the opposite.
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It's drawing more attention to the issue that people were trying to make go away.
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Holloway says that reversal highlights an alarming pattern with this sheriff's department.
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You know, on the one hand, if they say that nobody is going to be cleared until they have a suspect
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and then they turn around the next day and say,
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all of these people who meet this description and fit in this category,
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all of those people are cleared because they've been cooperative.
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And there's one thing that's been consistent with this sheriff's department from the beginning,
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and that is that they're inconsistent in their messaging.
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I think some media savvy folks need to perhaps take over the messaging at the sheriff's department.
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I'm not sure where it's coming from, but the inconsistent messaging certainly is not helping them.
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Meanwhile, President Trump telling the New York Post,
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he will instruct the Justice Department to seek the death penalty for Nancy Guthrie's kidnappers
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if she is found deceased, warning that those responsible would face, quote,
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio touching on a range of topics at a press briefing yesterday in Budapest.
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The secretary signing a nuclear cooperation agreement with Hungary,
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then appearing alongside Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a close ally of President Trump.
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Orban criticized by some on the left over moves to clamp down on the media and the judiciary,
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while some on the right praise his hardline stance against mass immigration and his pro-family policies.
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Secretary Rubio yesterday reiterating themes from his much-praised weekend address at the Munich Security Conference,
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highlighting the strength of U.S.-Hungary ties and pressing Orban's close working relationship with President Trump.
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Mr. Rubio highlighting the tremendous advantages to forging a strong working relationship with the U.S. and President Trump.
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We are entering this golden era of relations between our countries,
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and not simply because of the alignment of our people,
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but because of the relationship that you have with the President of the United States,
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And it's important to understand how important the relations between leaders are to the relations between countries.
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I can say to you with confidence that President Trump is deeply committed to your success,
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Because this relationship we have here in Central Europe through you
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is so essential and vital for our national interests in the years to come,
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that, you know, if you face financial struggles,
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if you face things that are impediments to growth,
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that you face things that threaten the stability of your country,
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I know that President Trump will be very interested because of your relationship with him
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and because of this importance of this country to us,
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to finding ways to provide assistance if that moment ever were to arise.
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One reporter pressing the Secretary on Hungary's ties to China,
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asking why closer U.S. cooperation is not conditioned on Hungary cutting ties with a top U.S. adversary.
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The Secretary continuing the theme that strong, trusting relationships
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are what allow nations to manage differences when priorities do not fully align.
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Under President Trump, it is our expectation that every nation on Earth
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So in those instances in which our national interests and some other countries' national interests are aligned,
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that is an opportunity for extraordinary partnership.
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Where they're not aligned or where we have some differences,
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that's where these deep ties to one another are so important
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because that's where you can find accommodation.
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But as an example, the United States, we have trade and relations with China.
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The President of the United States is going to travel in April to China.
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It's got a billion-something people, second-largest economy in the world.
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It's insane for the United States and China not to have relations and interact with one another.
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Secretary Rubio departing from Hungary shortly after the press briefing.
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Coming up, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the administration will act on a major petition
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Tensions boiling over on the Olympic ice as the Canadian men's and women's curling teams
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signaling the Trump administration will act on a major petition
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targeting ultra-processed foods, started by former FDA commissioner under Presidents H.W. Bush
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The announcement coming Sunday night on CBS's 60 Minutes.
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Dr. Kessler submitting the 66-page petition to Health and Human Services last August, calling
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for a regulatory crackdown on industrial food ingredients that dominate the modern American
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The petition focusing on highly refined sweeteners like corn syrup and certain refined flours used
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in mass-produced food products, not food, as well as some chemical additives.
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Dr. Kessler arguing these substances were allowed into the food supply under the federal generally
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recognized as safe standard or GRASS standard, which permits companies to self-certify certain
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ingredients as safe without full FDA approval. That standard originally applying to basic
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ingredients like salt, dairy, and eggs. Secretary Kennedy, Sunday on CBS, saying food companies
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now exploit the rule well beyond its original intent.
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That loophole was hijacked by the industry, and it was used to add thousands upon thousands
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of new ingredients into our food supply. In Europe, there's only 400 legal ingredients.
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This agency does not know how many ingredients there are in American food.
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They do not know. The estimates are between 4,000 and 10,000. We have no idea what they are.
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There is no way for any American to know if a product is safe if it is ultra-processed.
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Dr. Kessler on the same program describing the relationship between the introduction of
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these ingredients and the rise in chronic disease.
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Over the last 40 years, the United States has been exposed to something that our biology was
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never intended to handle. Energy-dense, highly palatable, rapidly absorbable, ultra-processed
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foods that have altered our metabolism and have resulted in the greatest increase in chronic
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disease in our history. Type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, hypertension, abnormal lipids, fatty liver,
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heart attacks, stroke, heart failure, from our food, from our food.
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The Trump administration focusing heavily on revamping nutrition standards in the U.S.,
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HHS working with food companies to voluntarily remove and replace certain petroleum-based food dyes,
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and rolling out a new food pyramid promoting whole foods, flipping the past pyramid literally
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on its head. RFKJ telling CBS the administration will use what he calls
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Gold Standard Science to review ingredients, but not specifying which parts of Dr. Kessler's
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petition regulators may ultimately adopt. Earlier this month, the FDA declaring that in 2026,
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it will publish a proposed regulation requiring companies to formally notify the FDA when claiming
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new ingredients are, quote, generally recognized as safe.
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Controversy rocking both the Canadian men's and women's Olympic curling teams in Milan after
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accusations of cheating. Stay with me. In curling, players must release the handle atop the stone
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before it crosses the hog line. That's the boundary line marking the point where the stone must be let
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go. Once released, a curler may not touch any part of the moving stone. Not the handle, not the stone.
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In fact, a curler is prohibited from touching the granite stone as opposed to the handle at any
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time that it's in forward motion. Violations can result in a stone being removed from gameplay,
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which we don't totally understand, but sounds bad. The dispute beginning Friday during Canada's
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preliminary men's match against Sweden. Canada's Mark Kennedy appearing to release the handle before
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the hog line. That's good. But then Kennedy appears to poke the granite side of the stone
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as it was crossing the hog line. That's bad. The move drawing complaints from Team Sweden,
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leading to a dramatic confrontation between Kennedy and Sweden's Oskar Areksson.
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Apparently it's okay touching the rock after the hog line. I don't know.
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How about you walking around on my peel on the last day and dancing around the house here?
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In Olympic curling, teams are largely expected to self-police on the honor system. There is no
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instant replay to review possible penalties, and calls ultimately come down to the judgment
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of on-ice officials, who in this case offered a warning to Canada for bad language, but did not
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impose any double-touch penalties. Canada ultimately winning the match 8-6. Scandal!
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The following day, Team Canada receiving similar complaints from Team Switzerland in another
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preliminary round. A Swiss player overheard on broadcast telling his coach he witnessed double-touching,
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or touching beyond the hog line after release. Switzerland was not neutral. According to the
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Mirror, the Swiss player reported the double-touch, once again accusing Mark Kennedy, expressing
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frustration that officials failed to act, Team Canada ultimately losing that one 9-5. Kennedy
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later complaining that he was videotaped by the Swiss. Oh, and also denying that he cheated. Later
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that Saturday, Canada's women's team facing a similar accusation during their match against
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Switzerland. Officials ruling Canada's Rachel Homan did indeed illegally touch her stone by making
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contact with the granite, removing it from gameplay, the bad thing. Canada narrowly losing that match 8-7.
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The teams play round-robin style, with the top four advancing to a medal round. Both Canada's men's
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and women's teams expected to advance. We will have more on whether they cheat their way to gold
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on The Megyn Kelly Show later today. And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me
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