Guthrie video footage, odd medical treatment, flag football: Catch up on the day’s stories

By Daniel Wine, CNN

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1️⃣ Guthrie video

The FBI released doorbell camera footage of a masked and armed person outside Nancy Guthrie’s front door taken the night she disappeared. “We believe she is still alive,” Savannah Guthrie said following the case’s biggest break so far. Follow live updates.

2️⃣ Melting away

In just 25 years, dozens of places will be too warm to host the Winter Olympics. ➕ Team USA won a silver medal in curling. Here’s the latest.

3️⃣ ‘We are very concerned’

The US just slipped to its lowest-ever ranking in a global corruption index. The world’s most powerful democracy now sits 29th — below Lithuania, Barbados and Uruguay, among others.

4️⃣ No. 2 treatment

Behold the healing power of… poop? Researchers in Turkey say they’ve found the first physical evidence that the Romans used human feces as medicine.

5️⃣ A safer alternative

Flag football is becoming increasingly popular with girls in high school. It’s a little more complicated for the boys.

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📦 Delivery gone wrong: An Amazon drone crashed near an apartment building in Richardson, Texas, and video shows smoke and pieces falling to the ground. The cause is under investigation.

Top headlines

• New document raises questions about what Trump may have known of Epstein’s crimes in mid-2000s
• Justice Department violated nearly 100 orders, federal judge says
• Takeaways from a tense House hearing with Trump immigration officials

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• New files reopen questions about Epstein’s Russian connections
• Analysis: Trump’s mass deportation push is splitting red and blue states even further

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🎤 Which singer left Casey Wasserman’s talent agency after revelations in the Epstein files?
A. Chappell Roan
B. Miley Cyrus
C. Lady Gaga
D. Cardi B
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🧠 Quiz answer: A. Roan said she dropped the agency after emails showed Wasserman exchanged flirtatious messages with Ghislaine Maxwell more than 20 years ago.

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