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The reward in the search for Nancy Guthrie was increased.
A women's basketball player faces four felony charges.
A former Disney Channel star has cancer.
Nicole Fallerthere, bringing you the news to know on Thursday, from an exclusive interview with Maryland's governor to the arrest of a former royal. Plus: An Olympian champions grief and gets a gold.
Maryland governor punches back on Potomac
Maryland Gov. Wes Moorehas a messagefor President Donald Trump after a collapsed sewer pipecaused wastewaterto spew into the Potomac River: "Please start doing your job."
Trumpput the blame on Democratssuch as Moore for the spill that's polluted the river that cuts through Washington, D.C. and is near the White House. Trump, in a set of incendiary social media posts, hasexcluded Moore froma bipartisan event for the nation's governors.
In anexclusive interviewwith USA TODAY,the Maryland governor fired back, arguing that the break was in a DC pipe on federal land.
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"How Maryland gets caught up in this, I have no idea. That is just some very creative facts from the president of the United States," Moore said to USA TODAY.
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A former prince arrested. British police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public life, according to multiple news outlets in the United Kingdom. The former prince has faced intense scrutiny over his friendship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
Why did skiers go? A backcountry avalanche disaster is being called the deadliest avalanche in the U.S. in four decades. Several of the victims who died in California's Lake Tahoe Region were members of an elite skiing academy. As families grieve and crews come up with a plan to remove the bodies from the mountain when it's safe, the guiding company is facing a tough question: Given the known dangers, why did they still go?
MTG v. Trump looms. President Donald Trump is headlining a rally Thursday in Georgia's 14th Congressional District, where he hopes his preferred candidate — Clay Fuller, a state prosecutor — pulls off a dominant performance on March 10 in a special election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Grief and a gold
Mikaela Shiffrin wanted to win Olympic gold in women's slalom on Wednesday as much as she feared it.A feeling she's resisted every day since her father died in 2020. After she crossed the finish line, 1.50 seconds ahead of the next closest skier — an eternity in the sport — she dropped her chest to her knees and her head in her lap.
Health & Wellness
She won a discrimination lawsuit for endometriosis
Christian "Cece" Worley in 2025won the first casein North Carolina to recognize endometriosis, an inflammatory disease where tissue similar to the uterine lining grows outside of the uterus, as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Worley, 27, reached a near six-figure settlement in her disability discrimination lawsuit against the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS). She represented herself in court. The verdict surprised everyone.
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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Daily Briefing: Poop, the Potomac and politics
