{"id":123827,"date":"2026-04-07T13:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=123827"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:48:18","slug":"us-journalist-back-on-air-after-mothers-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/123827\/","title":{"rendered":"US journalist back on air after mother\u2019s abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW YORK(National Times)- US television journalist Savannah Guthrie returned to her job as co-anchor of\u00a0<em>NBC\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Today show on Monday, more than two months after her 84-year-old mother\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1970920\">vanished<\/a>\u00a0from her Arizona home in an unresolved kidnapping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 7am in the show\u2019s Manhattan studio, Guthrie launched into the headlines the US war on Iran, the Artemis II astronauts\u2019 traveling to the far side of the moon before briefly acknowledging her absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are so glad you started your week with us, and it is good be home,\u201d Guthrie said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYes, it is good to have you back at home,\u201d her co-anchor Craig Melvin replied, patting Guthrie\u2019s hand. \u201cWell, here we go, ready or not, let\u2019s do the news,\u201d Guthrie said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was last at the anchor\u2019s desk in January, shortly before her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was taken from her home near Tucson. An armed man wearing a ski mask was recorded tampering with her doorbell camera before the disappearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Savannah Guthrie and her siblings later recorded emotional pleas for their mother\u2019s return, offering a $1 million reward, but she has yet to be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a video she recorded in February, Guthrie said her family was \u201cblowing on the embers of hope\u201d that Nancy Guthrie was still alive, but acknowledged that \u201cshe may already be gone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK(National Times)- US television journalist Savannah Guthrie returned to her job as co-anchor of\u00a0NBC\u2019s\u00a0Today show on Monday, more than two months after her 84-year-old mother\u00a0vanished\u00a0from her Arizona home in an unresolved kidnapping. 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