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The U.S. virtual embassy in Iran issued a security alert on Friday, urging American citizens to leave the country and prepare an exit plan that does not rely on U.S. government help amid nationwide protests there.
The notice was issued just hours before U.S. and Iranian officials were scheduled to hold talks in Oman, amid mounting concerns about a possible military confrontation between the two countries.
“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie's brother on Thursday renewed the family's plea for their mother's kidnapper to contact them, hours after an Arizona sheriff said investigators don't have proof Nancy Guthrie is alive but believe “she's still out there.”
“Whoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you. We haven’t heard anything directly,” Camron Guthrie said in a video posted on social media.

President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Feb. 5 at the 74th National Prayer Breakfast. The annual event has been attended by every president since President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Ukraine and Russia concluded a second day of U.S.-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi on Feb. 5, agreeing to a major prisoner swap, the first such exchange in five months, officials said.

The Trump administration will reduce the number of federal immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota by 700, White House border czar Tom Homan announced on Wednesday. "Given this increase in unprecedented collaboration and as a result of the need for fewer law enforcement officers to do this work in a safer environment, I have announced effective immediately, we will draw down 700 people effective today," Homan said.
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had a "productive" phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, during which the leaders discussed China's possible purchase of more agricultural products and oil and gas from the United States, Taiwan, the war in Ukraine and Iran. Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday unveiled plans to marshal allies into a preferential trade bloc for critical minerals, proposing coordinated price floors as Washington escalates efforts to loosen China's grip on materials crucial to advanced manufacturing.

President Donald Trump will welcome Colombian President Gustavo Petro for a bilateral discussion at the White House in Washington on Tuesday. The two spoke by phone in January, with Trump announcing the meeting shortly after.
The U.S. House of Representatives will take up a bill on Tuesday to fund several federal agencies as a partial shutdown enters its fourth day. Many Democrats—including leaders—have vowed to withhold support from the package.