On today's episode:

• 'We will pay,' Savannah Guthrie says in desperate video plea to potential kidnappers of her mother.
• Prince William and Princess Catherine express deep concern for Epstein victims.
• Seahawks ride their 'Dark Side' defense to a Super Bowl title, pounding the Patriots 29-13.
• Ilia Malinin's stunning free skate secures US figure skating team gold at Milan Cortina Olympics.
• Trial to begin in Georgia for the father of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect.
• FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show.
• The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her.
• Trump aims to hold the first meeting of his new Board of Peace in Washington this month.
• US gave Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach agreement to end war, Zelenskyy says.
• Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it.
• Feds can't withhold social service funds from 5 Democratic states amid fraud claims, judge rules.
• With $48M in philanthropic backing, a division of USAID relaunches as a nonprofit.
• Colorado funeral home owner who abused nearly 200 corpses gets 40 years, decried as a 'monster'.
• At least 3 people have died from eating Death Cap mushrooms as they spread in California after rains.
• Luigi Mangione speaks out in protest as judge sets state murder trial for June 8.
• Seattle avenges its Super Bowl loss to Patriots with second title, a running back gets MVP honors for the first time in 28 years, Seattle’s OC is headed to Vegas, a U.S. Olympic skiing icon is airlifted after a crash, the U.S. defends its gold in team figure skating and a playoff decides golf’s Phoenix Open.
• Breezy Johnson wins Olympic downhill on day marred by American teammate Lindsey Vonn's crash.
• Lindsey Vonn's fall explained A reverse banked section, an unfortunate bump and an inflated air bag.
• The Milan Cortina Olympics’ opening ceremony begins with Italian icons and Mariah Carey singing.
• Thames Valley police 'assesses claims' the ex-prince Andrew sent sensitive reports to Epstein.
• UK leader Starmer fights for his job as Mandelson-Epstein revelations spark a leadership crisis.
• Babies among 53 dead or missing after migrant boat sinks off Libya, UN says.
• Norwegian ambassador resigns as she faces scrutiny over contacts with Epstein.
• China critic and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in a Hong Kong security case.
• Venezuelan opposition leader Machado says a close ally was kidnapped hours after prison release.
• UK leader's chief of staff quits over appointment of Mandelson as ambassador despite Epstein ties.
• Drone attack by paramilitary group in Sudan kills 24, including 8 children, doctors' group says.
• Italian police fire tear gas as protesters clash near Winter Olympics hockey venue.

—The Associated Press

About this program

Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate.

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