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Tuesday’s release of video surveillance footage showing an armed, masked person at Nancy Guthrie’s doorstep on the night she was abducted has raised a host of questions about why it took so long to publicly release, how it was retrieved and what it means for privacy.The process involved days of searching, the FBI said, after law enforcement initially believed the footage was lost because the camera was disconnected and Guthrie didn't have a subscription to the camera company.The surprising emergence of the video footage has resurrected questions about digital content's long afterlife, as billions of people increasingly entwine their lives with mishmash of internet-connected devices, making it possible to retrieve snapshots from their past like old photos stored in an attic.Unclear reasons for delayIn the days after her apparent abduction, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos initially said that a camera attached to Nancy Guthrie's door was disconnected just before 2 a.m. on the night she disappeared. Minutes later, the camera’s software detected movement, but no footage was preserved, he said.At the time, Nanos said that there was no video available in part because Guthrie didn’t have an active subscription to the company. But unexpectedly, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Tuesday that investigators kept working for days to pull the videos from “residual data located in backend systems."It was not immediately clear why it took so long to retrieve the video. The delay could, in part, be a law enforcement strategy, according to Joseph Giacalone, a retired New York police sergeant who managed hundreds of homicide and missing person cases.Giacalone said the FBI likely tried to quietly identify the person on Guthrie’s porch before releasing the images.“You’re trying to keep these things close to the vest. I think they worked this angle for a couple days,” Giacalone said.Always recordingLocal and federal law enforcement didn't respond to questions clarifying what they meant by “disconnected" or who was working on recovering the data.The footage appears to have come from a Nest camera fastened on or near Guthrie's door. Google, which has owned Nest since 2014, is among numerous companies that operates private surveillance cameras used in and around homes. Because common doorbell cameras aren’t equipped with the memory cards required for vast amounts of on-device storage, the video recorded on them is routinely transmitted to data centers scattered around the U.S. and other countries.Google didn’t immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press about how the footage of the masked person was captured while the camera was apparently disconnected. They also didn't clarify how the footage was extracted from “backend servers” even though law enforcement said Guthrie didn't have a subscription.However, Google's privacy policy — a document that users often blindly agree to after purchasing a device — makes it clear that videos can be captured when a device is offline.“That means you may not see a visual indicator when your camera is sending the video footage to our servers," the policy states.Data on the cloud doesn't disappearThe policy also makes clear that footage can stay on cloud servers for varying amounts of time, but also gives users the right to view and delete video at their discretion.Unless a Nest user subscribes to a service that allows for quick access to review footage recorded on a device, Google routinely purges the footage rather than retain it indefinitely, said Stacey Higginbotham, a policy fellow at Consumer Reports who specializes in cybersecurity issues.But if law enforcement agencies such as the FBI reached out to Nest for the footage before it was overwritten, the video could still be retrieved and watched, Higginbotham said. “It’s basically like when you send an email to the trash. It’s still accessible,” depending on a provider’s retention policies.Tensions with privacy concernsThere are ostensibly legal guardrails that are supposed to dictate how companies like Google access and share footage collected on cameras in and around people's homes.Under many user agreements, camera companies need a warrant or consent from the camera owner to share footage with law enforcement, according to Michelle Dahl, the executive director at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.But there are plenty of legal loopholes that would allow a company like Google to share data directly with law enforcement without either of those things, Dahl said.“Our hearts are on her family and what they are going through, and we are glad for any information that can lead to her being found,” she said. At the same time, Dahl added, “We should absolutely be alarmed over the privacy implications that are at stake with this video that was recovered by the Nest camera."Dahl said she doesn't know about Nest cameras specifically. But she said that some user agreements specify that the data collected on cameras belong to the camera company, not the private camera owner. In those cases, a company like Google can share footage with law enforcement at its own discretion, without even notifying its users.Dahl, who litigates about privacy and surveillance, said that practice is becoming more common, making it harder for consumers to balance the security a camera provides with constitutional protections against surveillance.“I think the public has gotten too comfortable with surveillance cameras in not only public spaces, but also their private homes, without thinking about the consequences of where that data ends up,” Dahl said. “If a camera is absolutely necessary for your security, look into options where that data is not transmitted off to a cloud.”___Associated Press writer Ed White contributed reporting.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three Idaho families who are U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are suing after they and hundreds of others were detained for hours during an aggressive immigration raid at a rural horse racing track last year.The families say state and federal law enforcement agencies conspired to use unconstitutional tactics during the raid, including detaining people because they appeared to be Latino; keeping adults and some children in zip ties for hours without access to food, water or bathrooms; and searching individuals without reasonable suspicion of a crime.Similar immigration dragnets marked by a heavy use of force have entangled U.S. citizens and legal residents in other states. An Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen who says he was detained twice by immigration agents filed a federal lawsuit in his state last year demanding an end to Trump administration workplace raids targeting industries with large immigrant workforces.Other lawsuits alleging racial profiling and unconstitutional detention have had mixed results in the courts. Last year, a federal judge in California issued a restraining order barring immigration agents from stopping people solely based on their race, language, job or location, but the Supreme Court lifted that order in September in a 6-3 ruling. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a concurrence that judicial second-guessing of how immigration officers carry out brief stops for questioning would chill lawful immigration enforcement efforts. But he also suggested stops by agents using force could still face legal challenges.Idaho raid targeted an event popular among local Latino familiesThe Idaho families were among roughly 400 people detained at the privately owned race track known as La Catedral, about an hour's drive west of Boise. The October raid came amid an FBI-led investigation into allegations of illegal gambling, but only five people at the event were arrested in connection with the investigation. More than 100 others were arrested on suspicion of immigration violations.The FBI had a criminal search warrant for the gambling investigation, but the operation was essentially a “fishing expedition for immigration violations,” attorneys with the ACLU of Idaho wrote in the lawsuit.The races are a popular family-friendly event for the local Latino community, with food vendors present and games for kids held, besides the equestrian events.“Families with young children and elderly grandparents go for a nice outdoor activity, looking forward to the moments between races when kids are allowed to run down the track," the ACLU wrote. But on Oct. 19, a swarm of 200 law enforcement officers flooded the property.“Wearing militarized gear and face coverings, they pointed guns and screamed orders at frightened families," the ACLU wrote.Multiple agencies took part in the raid, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI, Idaho State Police, and local police and sheriff's deputies.“We take this matter seriously and are committed to following the legal process with integrity and professionalism,” said Nampa Mayor Rick Hogaboam. The city and the Nampa Police Chief are both named as defendants. The FBI and the Canyon County Sheriff's Office declined to comment. Other defendants did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Homeland Security Department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said afterward that “ICE dismantled an illegal horse-racing, animal fighting, and a gambling enterprise operation.” However, court documents make no mention of animal fighting, and the track had a horse-racing license. McLaughlin later added that ICE did not restrain or arrest children.ACLU says officers treated Latino detainees worse than white detaineesSome of the officers used racial epithets for Latinos, and used more force against people perceived to be Latino than they did against detainees who appeared to be white, said Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, speaking at a news conference Tuesday. Some detainees were left in zip ties so tight their skin was cut or their hands went numb. Others were denied bathroom access, forcing them to urinate outside in view of others, according to the lawsuit.“I have never seen so much direct evidence of racial targeting, and ethnic targeting, as I have in this case,” Borchetta said.Five families later told The Associated Press that kids as young as 11 were restrained, and children were separated from family members for hours. Juana Rodriguez, one of the lawsuit's lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said in October that her hands were zip-tied for almost four hours, leaving her unable to pick up and care for her 3-year-old son.None of the families were questioned about gambling, and they were released after proving citizenship or lawful permanent residency. They want a federal judge to make the lawsuit a class action, and to declare that the law enforcement agencies violated federal law and the constitutional rights of detainees. They also want to be paid for damages in an amount to be proven at trial.Families say law enforcement agencies conspired to violate civil rightsThe lawsuit relies on the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, the 14th Amendment's promise of equal protection, and three post-Civil War federal laws created to combat a campaign of violence against the newly emancipated Black population.Section 1983 gives individuals the right to sue state and local government employees for civil rights violations. Section 1985 makes it illegal for two or more people to conspire to interfere with someone's civil rights, and Section 1986 says individuals can be held liable for damages if they know about a conspiracy to violate civil rights and they neglect to try to stop the wrongful act, despite having the power to do so.“I want to be clear about what this was: A coordinated government scheme to weaponize an arrest warrant as cover for racial profiling on a massive scale,” said Paul Carlos Southwick, the ACLU of Idaho legal director. “The real objective was to deport hundreds of innocent people, no matter the human cost, while spreading terror throughout the Latine community.”__Corrects the spelling of Justice Kavanaugh's first name from ‘Brent’ to ‘Brett.’

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis man was arrested Thursday after federal prosecutors said he made online threats against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and against a person who supported ICE during the federal crackdown in Minnesota.Kyle Wagner, 37, is charged in a criminal complaint with violating cyberstalking and interstate communications laws for allegedly using his Instagram account to dox a “pro-ICE individual” by publishing a phone number, birth month and year, and suburban Detroit address. The complaint says Wagner later admitted that he doxed the victim’s parents’ house.The complaint also details several online posts in which prosecutors say Wagner threatened immigration officers.Court records in Detroit, Michigan, where the case was filed, did not list an attorney who could speak on Wagner’s behalf. The complaint was filed on Feb. 3, and unsealed Thursday.Attorney General Pamela Bondi alleged in a statement that Wagner doxed and threatened law enforcement officers, claimed an affiliation with antifa and “encouraged bloodshed in the streets.”And at the White House on Thursday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt held up Wagner’s photo at the daily briefing and said such conduct by “left-wing agitators” won’t go unpunished.“And if people are illegally obstructing our federal law enforcement operations, if they are targeting, doxing, harassing and vilifying ICE agents, they are going to be held accountable like this individual here who, again, is a self-proclaimed member of antifa. He is a domestic terrorist, and he will be held accountable in the United States,” Leavitt told reporters.President Donald Trump announced in September that he would designate antifa a “major terrorist organization.” Antifa, short for “anti-fascists,” is an umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups and is not a singular entity. It consists of groups that resist fascists and neo-Nazis, especially at demonstrations.When Trump administration border czar Tom Homan announced Wednesday that about 700 federal officers deployed to Minnesota would be withdrawn immediately, he said a larger pullout would occur only after there’s more cooperation and protesters stop interfering with federal personnel.According to prosecutors, Wagner repeatedly posted on Facebook and Instagram encouraging his followers to “forcibly confront, assault, impede, oppose, and resist federal officers” whom he referred to as the “gestapo” and “murderers.”The complaint alleges Wagner posted a video last month that directly threatened ICE officers with an obscenity-laden rant. “I’ve already bled for this city, I’ve already fought for this city, this is nothing new, we’re ready this time," he said, concluding that he was “coming for” ICE.The complaint further alleges that Wagner advocated for physical confrontation in another post, stating: “Anywhere we have an opportunity to get our hands on them, we need to put our hands on them.”Federal prosecutors didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on why the case was filed in Michigan instead of Minnesota. The alleged doxing was the only Michigan connection listed in the complaint.The U.S. Attorney’s office in Minnesota has been hit by the resignations of several prosecutors in recent weeks amid frustrations with the surge and its handling of the shooting deaths of two people by government officers. One lawyer, who told a judge that her job “sucks,” was removed from her post.Trump’s chief federal prosecutor for Minnesota, Dan Rosen, told a federal appeals court in a recent filing that his office is facing a “flood of new litigation” and is struggling to keep up just with immigration cases, while his division that handles civil cases is down 50%.Rosen wrote that his office has canceled other civil enforcement work “and is operating in a reactive mode.” He also said his attorneys are “appearing daily for hearings on contempt motions. The Court is setting deadlines within hours, including weekends and holidays. Paralegals are continuously working overtime. Lawyers are continuously working overtime.”___Associated Press reporters Eric Tucker and Nathan Ellgren in Washington contributed.___This story has been corrected to show Wagner was charged with cyberstalking and interstate communications violations, not with threatening to kill ICE agents. It also corrects one erroneous reference to Wagner as Weber.

The heads of the agencies carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda are testifying in Congress, parrying questions over how they are prosecuting immigration enforcement inside American cities.Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Rodney Scott, who leads Customs and Border Protection, and Joseph Edlow, who is the director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, were called to appear Tuesday before the House Committee on Homeland Security amid falling public support for immigration enforcement.Their agencies are flush with cash from Trump's big tax-and-spending law, but Democrats are threatening to shut down DHS Friday night if Republicans don't agree on new limits aimed at forcing agents to follow the law and the Constitution following killings in the streets and expanding detentions.Trump’s immigration campaign has been heavily scrutinized in recent weeks after Homeland Security officers killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good. The agencies have also faced criticism for a wave of policies that critics say trample on the rights of both immigrants facing arrest and Americans protesting the enforcement actions.ICE has undergone a massive hiring boom, deploying immigration officers across the country. Lyons is likely to face questioning over a memo he signed last year telling ICE officers that they didn’t need a judge’s warrant to forcibly enter a house to arrest a deportee, a memo that went against years of ICE practice and Fourth Amendment protections against illegal searches.The Latest:Democrats say Trump administration is hijacking celebrations related to America’s 250th anniversaryDemocrats are accusing the Trump administration of using the National Park Foundation to solicit money from private donors under the auspices of celebrating the nation’s 250th birthday. They said the administration intends to use the money for some of the president’s pet projects, including his planned massive arch in the nation’s capital.During a House subcommittee hearing on America’s 250th birthday, Democratic Rep. Maxine Dexter of Oregon voiced concern that a White House-led initiative is taking public money earmarked for a separate, congressionally chartered commission and co-mingling it with private donations. She also said the White House initiative is using the money to push “Christian nationalist propaganda.”U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman of California accused Republican members of the committee of letting Trump “hijack the country’s 250th anniversary and sell access, hide his donors and rewrite history.”The White House initiative, named Freedom 250, did not immediately respond to a request for details on its funding, but indicated that nonprofits are not required to disclose individual donors.Lyons defends treatment of 5-year-old in MinneapolisThe case of Liam Conejo Ramos has sparked controversy over the administration’s crackdown in Minnesota.Rep. Brad Knott, a Republican from North Carolina, asked Lyons about the case and whether the boy was used as bait to get one of the parents out of the house, as neighbors and school officials have alleged.Lyons denied that, saying that DHS took care of the boy after his father fled.He said the boy was upset and officers put him in a vehicle and played his favorite music for him. They later took him to McDonald’s, Lyons said.▶ Read more about the boy's caseLyons says ICE is committed to a ‘safe and secure event’ for World CupNoting that her New Jersey district will host matches in this year’s FIFA World Cup, Democratic Rep Nellie Pou asked Lyons if he would commit to pausing ICE operations during the events, saying it would “hurt this entire process” if visitors feared they may be “wrongfully incarcerated or wrongfully pulled out.”Saying he realized her concerns, Lyons said his agency was “dedicated to the security of all our participants as well as visitors,” but did not commit to suspending operations.Pou warned that “visitors’ confidence is plummeting” given federal activity ahead of the tourney.Lutnick acknowledges meetings with Epstein that contradict previous claimsUnder questioning from Democrats, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick once again downplayed his relationship with Epstein during a Senate subcommittee hearing. He described their contact as a handful of emails and a pair of meetings that were years apart.“I did not have any relationship with him. I barely had anything to do with him,” Lutnick told lawmakers.But the recent release of case files on Epstein contradicted Lutnick’s claims on a podcast last year that he had decided to “never be in the room” with Epstein again after a 2005 tour of Epstein’s home that disturbed Lutnick and his wife.Lutnick said Tuesday that he and his family actually had lunch with Epstein on his private island in 2012 and he had another hour-long engagement at Epstein’s home in 2011. Lutnick is the highest-profile U.S. official to face bipartisan calls for his resignation amid revelations of his ties to Epstein.▶ Read moreDemocrats’ positive views of the future fell significantlyAmericans’ attitudes toward the future tend to shift when a new political party enters the White House. For instance, Democrats became more positive about the future after Biden won the presidency, while Republicans’ outlook soured.Toward the end of Biden’s term and the start of Trump’s second term, Democrats’ optimism fell from 65% to 57%. Republicans grew more hopeful, but not enough to offset Democrats’ drop.“The regime change in the White House almost certainly was a big driving factor in what’s happened,” said Dan Witters, the research director of the Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index. “And a lot of that was just because the people who identified as Democrats really took it in the chops.”Lyons won’t force officers to take off masksDemocrats repeatedly brought up the issue of immigration enforcement officers wearing masks as they carry out their jobs.Rep. Tim Kennedy, a Democrat from New York, pointedly asked Lyons if he would commit to making his officers take off their masks and requiring them to wear “standard uniforms with identifiable badges.”Lyons answered with one word: “No.”Kennedy called that a “sad response.”“People who are proud of what they do aren’t hiding their identity,” Kennedy said.Lyons has said repeatedly that he supports officers who feel that they need to wear a mask to protect their identities and their families.Democratic rep says ICE is acting like a ‘fascist regime’Todd Lyons got into a heated exchange with Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., who was comparing masked ICE agents to the actions of those in Nazi Germany and the former Soviet Union.The ICE chief interjected that the congressman was asking “the wrong type of questioning,” but Goldman cut him off.“If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one,” Goldman said.“This is not the America I know and love,” he said.Goldman went on to call explanations as to why federal immigration agents were wearing masks during operations due to fears of doxing “outright bogus.”CIA joins Pentagon in procurement reformThe CIA is changing the way it buys technology from the private sector.The new procurement rules announced by CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Monday are designed to hasten the evaluation and authorization of new private contractors. The CIA often works with private tech companies on specialized software and equipment for the agency’s classified work, with the relationships governed by rigorous procurement and security regulations.Speeding up the process of vetting and implementing private sector partnerships will help the CIA keep up as technology transforms the intelligence field. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has announced a similar effort for the Pentagon.“CIA’s rapidly evolving mission demands a radical shift towards a culture of speed, agility, and innovation,” Ratcliffe said in a statement announcing the changes.US revokes visas of Pacific islands politicians over corruption chargesThe Trump administration has revoked the U.S. visas of two Pacific island politicians over charges they engaged in significant corruption while in office.The State Department announced Tuesday that it had rescinded visas for the president of Palau’s Senate, Hokkons Baules, and Anderson Jibas, the former mayor of a Marshall Islands community that includes the well-known Bikini atoll where U.S. nuclear testing took place decades ago. The revocations also include their immediate family members.The department said that Baules had accepted bribes in exchange for advocating on behalf of Chinese government, business and criminal interests. It said Jibas had stolen or otherwise misused U.S. taxpayer funds intended to compensate survivors and descendants of the nuclear testing in the 1940s and 1950s.Palau and the Marshall Islands are independent Pacific nations, though they hold close ties to the U.S.New Jersey’s Malinowski concedes to progressive activist Mejia in U.S. House primaryThe special election is being held to fill the seat vacated when Mikie Sherrill stepped down to become governor.Analilia Mejia overtook Malinowski by a narrow margin on election night. The Associated Press has not yet called the race.“I look forward to supporting her in the April general election,” former congressman Tom Malinowski said in a statement.All three counties in the district report some mail-in ballots yet to be processed. Also, mail-in ballots postmarked by election day can arrive as late as Wednesday and still be counted.She had the endorsement of noted progressives, including Sanders, an independent from Vermont, and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.▶ Read moreTrump administration offers no pathway for Babson student to return to United StatesThe Trump administration admitted that it mistakenly deported the Babson College student to Honduras. But U.S. Attorney Leah Foley said it won’t return Any Lucia Lopez Belloza because immigration officers followed both the law and the Constitution in enforcing her removal order.Foley said in court filing Friday that to obtain a student visa as the judge suggested, Belloza must show she was allowed into the country, which she can’t due to the removal order. And she said only consular officers — not Secretary of State Marco Rubio — have the authority to an issue a student visa.The 19-year-old freshman was detained and deported as she prepared to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. Her lawyer Todd Pomerleau said the government’s response “spills a lot of ink on the difficulty of a student visa, but it fails to address the numerous simple solutions available to itself to rectify its ‘mistaken’ deportation.”Judge blocks, for now, California’s ban on federal agents wearing masksA federal judge has blocked part of a California law that would ban federal immigration agents from covering their faces, but ruled that the agents are required to wear clear identification showing their agency and badge number.Judge Christina Snyder said she issued the initial ruling Monday because the state’s mask ban as enacted doesn’t also apply to state law enforcement authorities, discriminating against the federal government. She said future legislation would pass muster if it applies to all law enforcement agencies.“The Court finds that federal officers can perform their federal functions without wearing masks,” she wrote. The ruling will go into effect Feb. 19.California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers from wearing facial coverings. The Trump administration’s challenge argues that the law threatens the safety of officers facing harassment, doxing and violence, and violates the Constitution because the state is directly regulating the federal government.Homeland Security officials warn against shutdownThey’re saying the country would be less safe if federal funds expire at the end of the week, and the agency enters a shutdown.Republicans listed the tens of thousands of employees who would go without paychecks — from the Transportation Security Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency and others, including ICE and Border Patrol.“It will have a great impact,” said Lyons, the acting ICE director. He said a shutdown would particularly harm the department’s task forces on transnational crimes and terrorism.Democrats are pushing for restraints on ICE operations as part of negotiations over funding.Head of ICE declines to discuss Good, PrettiDuring a pointed exchange, Lyons declined to apologize to the families of Good and Pretti, or comment on the Trump administration’s claims that the two Americans killed during protests over the immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis were involved in domestic terrorism.Lyons said he welcomed the opportunity to speak to the families, but would leave the comments to others in the administration.Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., pressed him to resign. Lyons declined.Maine’s GOP senator announces reelection bid amid criticism over ICE surgeRepublican Sen. Susan Collins announced her reelection bid Tuesday, betting that she can hold onto her Maine seat despite a renewed Democratic effort to oust her amid immigration enforcement in the state.The 73-year-old has won five terms by casting herself as a reflection of Maine’s independent spirit, occasionally clashing with Trump while largely supporting his agenda.Now Collins faces outrage over immigration enforcement tactics that could become a political liability for Republican candidates across the country. In Maine, hundreds of arrests included people who have no criminal records.Collins has taken credit for stopping the enforcement surge in Maine by speaking directly with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Democrats accused her of not going far enough. Gov. Janet Mills and oyster farmer Graham Platner are leading candidates to unseat Collins.GOP Rep. says Bovino ‘escalated’ situation around immigration protestsRep. Michael McCaul of Texas said he “commended” the decision to replace Gregory Bovino as Trump’s point person on large-scale immigration crackdowns with border czar Tom Homan, “a consummate professional.”McCaul went on to ask Lyons if he felt Homan’s presence was bringing the situation “under control.”Lyons turned his response toward referencing people who have protested the agents’ actions, noting a “de-escalation in the fact that the protests ... have subsided, and ICE has been allowed to do their targeted, intelligence driven enforcement operation.”House and Senate Republican leaders to meet on Homeland Security fundingSpeaker Mike Johnson says he’ll be meeting with Senate Majority Leader John Thune in the afternoon to discuss the GOP’s options regarding a Homeland Security funding bill.Congress has funded DHS through Feb. 13th. Democrats are demanding changes to ICE as part of a spending bill. Johnson said he’s optimistic about avoiding a shutdown of the agency.“I’m very hopeful. I mean, we still have some time on the clock. When there’s a will there’s a way.”He also was highly critical of Democrats, and said it’s the workers at agencies such as FEMA, Secret Service, TSA and the Coast Guard who would be most affected by a funding lapse.“The reason they are in the Homeland Security bill is because those are the agencies charged with keeping Americans safe,” Johnson said. “Why would Democrats play political games with that?”Lyons, Scott say they haven’t been asked to ‘guard’ voting precinctsWith Trump’s push to nationalize elections, Thompson asked the officials to answer directly if they are involved in any efforts to show up and guard voting precincts, with the midterms set for later this year.Lyon and Scott each replied, “No, sir.”Head of USCIS focuses on fraud and policy changesJoseph Edlow honed in on fraud in his opening remarks, saying his Citizenship and Immigration Services agency has made more than 33,000 fraud referrals to law enforcement over last year.“Fraud isn’t just a paperwork issue, it’s a national security and public safety concern,” Edlow said.He also advocated for an end to multiple deportation protections, including temporary protected status. The Trump administration has aggressively sought to remove TPS, exposing hundreds of thousands of more people to removal as part of the administration’s wider, mass deportation effort.ICE chief says ‘we’re only getting started’Todd Lyons, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, says officers will not be dissuaded from their mission — even in the face of intimidation from the public.“The family of ICE personnel have been made to feel unsafe in their homes,” he testified.He said even his own family has faced harassment. But he warned that those trying to intimidate ICE officers “will fail.”“We are only getting started,” he said.ICE head touts arrest, removal numbersThe ICE director listed statistics to show how well his agency has been carrying out the president’s immigration agenda. Lyons said ICE had conducted 379,000 arrests, and removed over 475,000 people from the country in 2025.“The president tasked us with mass deportation, and we are fulfilling that mandate,” Lyons said.He also said the money provided by Congress is enabling the agency to increase how many people it can detain at any one time and beef up the number of daily removal flights.Vance says ‘strategic partnership’ will ensure relations ‘stick’ with AzerbaijanJD Vance and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev held up the signed document to applause from the audience of government officials, and delivered brief statements but took no questions from journalists in the room.Vance said the U.S. relationship with Azerbaijan is an “underappreciated but very, very important partnership and friendship for the United States.” He said the signatures make clear the partnership is “one that will stick, is one that would continue to produce great fruits for both of our peoples.”Aliyev said the partnership opens new opportunities for cooperation with the United States.“For us it’s a great honor to be a strategic partner to the most powerful country in the world,” he said.Border chief condemns ‘attacks’ on federal agentsRodney Scott, who leads Customs and Border Protection, stressed in his opening statement that border agents work “tirelessly” to keep Americans safe, touting improvements to the U.S.-Mexico border wall and land entry points.Scott said the billions of dollars in funding from Trump’s tax cuts bill have led to improved immigration enforcement, citing the drop in border crossings and rise in narcotics seized.“This is what having a secure border looks like,” he said.But Scott also took issue with what he called “an unprecedented level of aggressive interference and intimidation” against federal officers in the course of doing their jobs. He said these “attacks” on federal officers have been “coordinated and well funded.”Carney confident that bridge brouhaha will be resolvedCanada’s leader said Tuesday that he had a “positive conversation” with Trump after the U.S. president threatened to block the opening of a vital bridge connecting Ontario and Michigan.“This is going to be resolved,” Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters, noting that he told Trump of the bridge’s shared ownership between the Canadian government and the state of Michigan, and that U.S. steel and U.S. workers were used to build it.Trump threatened to block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, a project meant to ease congestion over the existing Ambassador Bridge and Detroit-Windsor tunnel. According to Carney, Trump told him he’ll ask the U.S. ambassador to Canada, former Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra, to “play a role in smoothing the conversation in and around the bridge.”Top Democrat calls Homeland Security ‘reckless’Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi said “every American should be outraged” at Homeland Security’s actions, and that both the agency and its secretary Kristi Noem “must be held accountable.”Thompson then displaying Good and Pretti’s photos and held a moment of silence.Demanding answers in the aftermath of the Minneapolis shootings, Thompson said the department has blocked lawmakers from visiting detention facilities and needs to be more responsive to questions.Transparency Index raises concerns about US anti-corruption effortsThe annual survey released Tuesday serves as a barometer of perceived corruption worldwide. Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index for 2025 gave top place to Denmark, with 89 points out of 100, followed by Finland and Singapore. At the bottom were South Sudan and Somalia with nine points apiece, followed by Venezuela.The U.S. moved down one point from 2024 for its worst showing yet under the methodology Transparency started using for its global ranking in 2012, putting it in 29th place in the first year of Trump’s second term.“The use of public office to target and restrict independent voices such as NGOs and journalists, the normalization of conflicted and transactional politics, the politicization of prosecutorial decision making, and actions that undermine judicial independence, among many others, all send a dangerous signal that corrupt practices are acceptable,” the report said.Transparency International also argued that the Trump administration’s freezing of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act “sends a dangerous signal that bribery and other corrupt practices are acceptable.”▶ Read moreChairman reminds crowded hearing room against making offensive commentsOpening the hearing, Rep. Andrew Garbarino, chairman of the committee, called the moment an “inflection point” but warned those in attendance against making any comments offensive to Trump or Vice President JD Vance.The New York Republican called the increase in rhetoric and lack of cohesion between state and local law jurisdictions — along with the deaths of U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal officers — “unacceptable and preventable.”VP’s X account refers to ‘Armenian genocide’ before deleting itJD Vance’s team posted — and then deleted — a message on social media that referred to the “Armenian genocide,” using language about the early 20th century atrocities that the Trump administration has sought to avoid.The vice president’s office said that message was posted in error by staff who were not part of Vance’s delegation. The vice president on Tuesday visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial.Joe Biden in 2021 formally recognized that the systematic killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces was “genocide.” American presidents have avoided the term for decades over concerns of alienating Turkey.Asked by reporters why he visited the memorial in Armenia’s capital of Yerevan, Vance responded, “Obviously, it’s a very terrible thing that happened, little over 100 years ago, and something that’s just very, very important to them culturally.”Top Navy admiral sees a smaller Caribbean presence in the futureThe Navy’s top officer told The Associated Press that he envisions a much smaller and more tailored presence of ships in the Caribbean if the mission there keeps going. The Navy has had 11 ships, including the world’s largest aircraft carrier and several amphibious assault ships with thousands of Marines, in the region for months.Speaking “generically,” Adm. Daryl Caudle said recently that he envisions a future focus more on interdictions and keeping an eye on merchant shipping and “that doesn’t really require a carrier strike group to do that.”Caudle says he believes the mission could be done with some smaller littoral combat ships, Navy helicopters and close coordination with the Coast Guard.“I don’t want a lot of destroyers there driving around just to actually operate the radar to get awareness on motor vessels and other tankers coming out of port,” he added.Trump’s immigration agenda roils opening days of Winter OlympicsVice President JD Vance hailed the Olympic competition as “one of the few things that unites the entire country.” That unity didn’t last long.The Milan Cortina Games are already roiled by the tumultuous political debate in the U.S. as American athletes face persistent questions about their comfort with Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement and other controversial policies.The spotlight on the U.S. that comes with global sports will only intensify as the U.S., Canada and Mexico host this year’s World Cup and the 2028 Summer Olympics will be held in Los Angeles.Some are hoping sports will help people process their disagreements and ultimately come together.“There’s this really magical thing that sport can do,” said Ashleigh Huffman, who was the chief of sports diplomacy at the State Department during the Biden and first Trump administrations. “It can lower the temperature of the room.”▶ Read more

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli military strikes on Monday killed three people west of Gaza City, according to the hospital where the casualties arrived.Shifa Hospital reported the deaths amid the months-old ceasefire that has seen continued fighting. The Israeli army said Monday it is striking targets in response to Israeli troops coming under fire in the southern city of Rafah, which it says was a violation of the ceasefire. The army said it is striking targets “in a precise manner."The four-month-old U.S-backed ceasefire followed stalled negotiations and included Israel and Hamas accepting a 20-point plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump aimed at ending the war unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack into Israel. At the time, Trump said it would lead to a “Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace.”Hamas freed all the living hostages it still held at the outset of the deal in exchange for thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and the remains of others.But the larger issues the agreement sought to address, including the future governance of the strip, were met with reservations, and the U.S. offered no firm timeline.Top UN official concerned over Israel’s West Bank decisionThe United Nations top official on Monday expressed concern about the Israeli security cabinet’s decision to deepen the country’s control over the occupied West Bank.Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “gravely concerned” and warned that the Israeli decision could erode the prospect of a two-state solution, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement.“Such actions, including Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory are not only destabilizing but – as recalled by the International Court of Justice – unlawful,” he said.Israel ’s security cabinet on Sunday approved measures that aim to deepen Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the already limited powers of the Palestinian Authority.Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the measures would make it easier for Jewish settlers to force Palestinians to give up land, adding that “we will continue to bury the idea of a Palestinian state.”Israel captured the West Bank, as well as Gaza and east Jerusalem, in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want all three territories for a future state.Rafah crossing improving, official saysThe Palestinian official set to oversee day-to-day affairs in Gaza said on Monday that passage through the Rafah crossing with Egypt is starting to improve after a chaotic first week of reopening marked by confusion, delays and a limited number of crossings.Ali Shaath, head of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, told Egypt’s Al-Qahera News that operations at the crossing were improving on Sunday. He said 88 Palestinians were scheduled to travel through Rafah on Monday, more than have crossed in the initial days since reopening. Israel did not immediately confirm the figures.The European Union border mission at the crossing said in a statement Sunday that 284 Palestinians had crossed since reopening. Travelers included people returning after having fled the war and medical evacuees and their escorts. In total, 53 medical evacuees departed during the first five days of operations.That remains well below the agreed target of 50 medical evacuees exiting and 50 returnees entering daily, negotiated by Israeli, Egyptian, Palestinian and international officials.Shaath and other members of the committee remain in Egypt, without Israeli authorization to enter the war-battered enclave.The Rafah crossing opened last week for the first time since mid-2024, one of the main requirements for the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. It was closed Friday and Saturday because of confusion around operations.Palestinian officials say nearly 20,000 people are seeking to leave Gaza for medical care unavailable in its largely destroyed health system.Palestinians who returned to Gaza in the first days after the crossing reopened described hourslong delays and invasive searches by Israeli authorities and an Israeli-backed Palestinian armed group, Abu Shabab. Israel denied mistreatment.Gaza's Health Ministry said on Monday that five people were killed over the previous 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 581 since the October ceasefire. The truce led to the return of the remaining hostages — both living captives and bodies — from the 251 abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war.Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the attack. Israel’s military offensive has since killed over 72,000 Palestinians, according to the ministry, which operates under the Hamas-run government and is staffed by medical professionals. The U.N. and independent experts consider it the most reliable source on war casualties.___Magdy reported from Cairo and Metz from Jerusalem. Sally Abou AlJoud reported from BeirutFind more of AP’s coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The FBI is not aware of ongoing communication between Savannah Guthrie’s family and any suspected kidnappers more than a week after the “Today” show host’s mom went missing, the agency said Monday.The FBI has also not identified any suspects or persons of interest in the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, Connor Hagan, a spokesperson for the FBI, said in a statement. The agency is operating a 24-hour command post equipped with investigative teams and crisis management experts while asking for help from the public.“Someone has that one piece of information that can help us bring Nancy home,” he said.In a video released Monday, Savannah Guthrie said the family was “at an hour of desperation” but that they continue to believe her mother is out there and hearing everyone’s prayers.“She was taken and we don’t know where, and we need your help,” Guthrie said in the video posted on Instagram, urging people nationwide to be on the lookout “no matter where you are, even if you’re far from Tucson, if you see anything, if you hear anything.”By Monday evening, a purported ransom deadline apparently set by her mom’s abductors appeared to have passed.The mysterious disappearance and search has riveted the country — from President Donald Trump, who spoke with Savannah Guthrie last week, to the online sleuths who’ve flooded social media with tips, theories and rumors.The FBI is asking for the public’s help on digital billboards up in several major cities in Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico. The FBI has offered a $50,000 reward for information.Multiple news outlets received alleged ransom letters during the past week. At least one letter made monetary demands and set deadlines for receiving the money. The first deadline passed last Thursday and a second one was set for Monday evening.Law enforcement officials declined to affirm that the letters were credible but said all tips were being investigated seriously. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said Monday that law enforcement tip lines have received thousands of calls.Authorities say they have growing concerns about Nancy Guthrie’s health because she needs daily medication. She is said to have a pacemaker and has dealt with high blood pressure and heart issues, according to sheriff’s dispatcher audio on broadcastify.com.In a video Saturday, Savannah Guthrie said the family was prepared to pay for her mother’s return. “This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”Authorities believe Nancy Guthrie was taken against her will from her home just outside Tucson. She was last seen there Jan. 31 and reported missing the next day after not attending church. DNA tests showed blood on Guthrie’s front porch was a match to her, and her doorbell camera was disconnected in the early hours of Sunday morning, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has said.Outside the home on Monday, neighbors strolled by on their morning jogs and walks, while a county sheriff's deputy remained stationed out front.Law enforcement's work at Guthrie residences will continue Tuesday “as part of the ongoing investigative process, including the expansion of the search and follow-up on new leads,” the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Monday.Detectives and agents carried out follow-up work in the neighborhood and other locations over the weekend as part of the investigation, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said Sunday.Investigators on Saturday were inside daughter Annie Guthrie’s home, about 4 miles (6 kilometers) from Nancy Guthrie's house. On Sunday, an investigator was seen using a pole to search an underground tank behind Nancy Guthrie’s home.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities have denied attempting to expedite an end to asylum claims by the family of a 5-year-old boy who was detained with his father during the immigration crackdown that has shaken the Minneapolis area.Images of Liam Conejo Ramos wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack surrounded by immigration officers stirred outrage over the crackdown.Danielle Molliver, a lawyer for the boy and his father, told The New York Times that the government was attempting to speed up the deportation proceedings, calling the actions “extraordinary” and possibly “retaliatory."The government denied that.“These are regular removal proceedings. They are not in expedited removal," Department of Homeland Security official Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement, adding "there is nothing retaliatory about enforcing the nation’s immigration laws.”Molliver told the Times that an immigration judge, during a closed Friday hearing, gave her additional time to argue the family's case.The family is sequestered pending their next hearing this Friday, according to Kristen Stuenkel, spokesperson for Liam's district, the Columbia Heights Public Schools.The boy and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, who originally is from Ecuador, were detained in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20. A judge ordered them released from a detention facility in Dilley, Texas, and they returned to Minnesota on Feb. 1.Neighbors and school officials have accused federal immigration officers of using the preschooler as “bait” by telling him to knock on the door to his house so that his mother would come outside. DHS has called that description of events an “abject lie.” It said the father fled on foot and left the boy in a running vehicle in their driveway.The government said the boy’s father entered the U.S. illegally in December 2024. The family’s lawyer, however, said the father entered legally using the CBP One app and that his pending asylum claim allows him to stay in the U.S.

Moments after the news broke about the apparent abduction of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, the floodgates opened on social media.Influencers relayed the timeline from the hours after Nancy Guthrie was last seen and posted photos of the blood found on her front porch that later was a match for the 84-year-old grandmother. Others called out individuals connected to the case as looking “sus” or filmed themselves walking through her neighborhood to help find her.The desperate search for Guthrie, who authorities believe was taken a week ago against her will from her home just outside Tucson, Arizona, has become the latest investigation to pique the widespread interest of online armchair detectives.As the search continues with no suspects or persons of interest, posts across Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook and YouTube have put millions of eyeballs on tips and theories surrounding her disappearance. But they’ve also helped to amplify rumors and forced law enforcement to repeatedly set the record straight on at least one crucial detail.Michael Alcazar, adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and retired New York Police Department detective, said overall the positives outweigh the negatives when it comes to the onslaught of social media posts.“More people are aware; It keeps people alert," he said. "If they know she hasn’t been found yet, perhaps people will remember that and if they see something, they might say something.”He compared it to the widespread online response to the disappearance and death of Gabby Petito in 2021 and the impact that may have had on her body being found.Two YouTubers said at the time that an image they posted showed Petito and her boyfriend's white van and that it led investigators to the area where her body was found. But the FBI didn't specify what led to the discovery.“I think it’s just something that we have to adapt to as far as law enforcement," Alcazar said. “The true crime community is growing. ... There’s a lot of people out there that want to help.”But with the widespread posts also comes the proliferation of misinformation.Ashleigh Banfield, a contributor to the cable network NewsNation, announced on her podcast Wednesday that a law enforcement source told her a Guthrie family member is the prime suspect. She seemed to quickly walk-back the statement seconds later, saying the person “may be a prime suspect,” and adding that family members are often looked at first. The information quickly took off across social media, with people posting photos of the person she named.Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos addressed the rumor early in a news conference Thursday, saying authorities don't have any suspects or persons of interest. That remained the case Friday.“I plead with you to be careful of what it is we put out there. ... You could actually be doing some damage to the case, you could do some damage to the individual, too,” he said later in the news conference. “Social media’s kind of an ugly world sometimes.”Other posts have included a medium expressing her feeling that Guthrie is close by and a woman using astrology to point her viewers in the direction of what may have happened.Calvin Chrustie, who has more than three decades of experience in negotiations for kidnapping, ransom and extortions, said if the public truly understood the toll those situations can have on family and law enforcement, they might not hastily post unsubstantiated information.“This stuff on X and other stuff out there that’s pure speculation is actually making it more difficult for the families and making it more difficult to the police to secure the safe, you know, the safe return of the hostage,” he said.Julie Urquhart, an elementary school teacher in New Brunswick, Canada, has been posting about the case on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. She said she was drawn to the disappearance because she has a mother near Guthrie's age and was fascinated that someone could have taken her seemingly without a trace.Urquhart said her information comes from national news sites and law enforcement news conferences. One of her posts on TikTok and Instagram amassed more 4 million views, she said.“That’s 4 million eyes that now saw that story and now maybe will see something or know something or know someone who does," she said. "There's just so many people it hits.”__This story was first published Feb. 7, 2026. It was updated on Feb. 9, 2026 to clarify that journalist Ashleigh Banfield is a contributor to cable network NewsNation and is not a staff member.—-Associated Press reporter Safiyah Riddle in Montgomery, Alabama, contributed.

OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Norwegian ambassador who was involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the 1990s and most recently served in Jordan has resigned as she faces scrutiny over her contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, the country's Foreign Ministry said.The ministry announced Mona Juul's resignation on Sunday evening, days after she was suspended as Norway's ambassador to Jordan. That followed reports that Epstein left the children of Juul and her husband, Terje Rød-Larsen, $10 million in a will drawn up shortly before his death by suicide in a New York prison in 2019.Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said Juul's decision was “correct and necessary.” Her contact with the convicted sex offender showed a “serious lapse in judgment,” he said, adding that “the case makes it difficult to restore the trust that the role requires.”A ministry investigation into Juul's knowledge of and contact with Epstein will continue, and Juul will continue discussions with the ministry “so that the matter can be clarified,” Eide said.The ministry said it also launched a review of its funding of and contact with the International Peace Institute, a New York-based think tank, during the period when it was headed by Rød-Larsen. Eide said Rød-Larsen also had shown poor judgment regarding Epstein.Revelations from the Epstein files have reverberated across several countries — most prominently the U.K., where the former Prince Andrew has long been under pressure. Prime Minister Keir Starmer now faces calls to resign as he contends with fallout from the relationship between Epstein and former British ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson. Starmer appointed Mandelson in 2024 despite knowing he had ties to Epstein.Rød-Larsen and Juul were among those involved in facilitating the landmark Oslo Accords aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the 1990s.Norway's National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime, or Økokrim, said Monday that it decided last week to open an investigation of Juul and Rød-Larsen.It said in a statement that Juul is suspected of gross corruption based on her position at the Foreign Ministry, and Rød-Larsen of aiding and abetting gross corruption. Investigators will look among other things into whether Juul received benefits in connection with her position. On Monday, they searched an apartment in Oslo's Frogner district and the home of a witness.Juul acknowledged in a statement to Norwegian news agency NTB last week that it had been “imprecise” to describe her contact with Epstein as minimal, but said that the contact originated in her husband's relationship with Epstein and she had no independent social or professional relationship with him.She wrote that her contact with Epstein had been sporadic and private, not part of her official duties, but acknowledged that she should have been much more careful.The latest batch of Epstein files has cast an unflattering spotlight on other prominent figures in Norway. Crown Princess Mette-Marit on Friday issued an apology “to all of you whom I have disappointed" after documents offered more details of her relationship with Epstein.Økokrim already opened a corruption investigation into former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland — who also once headed the committee that hands out the Nobel Peace Prize — over his ties with Epstein. His lawyer said Jagland would cooperate.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Sam Darnold and that stingy Seattle Seahawks defense captured the franchise's second Super Bowl championship on the familiar field of their rival — the San Francisco 49ers.General manager John Schneider considered that an advantage in his team's 29-13 victory against the New England Patriots on Sunday night after Seattle won 13-3 at Levi's Stadium just last month.“They've been a very confident group,” Schneider said.Here’s a look at some top moments from Sunday’s game and the week leading up to Super Bowl 60 in the Bay Area:Maye's healthPatriots quarterback Drake Maye received an injection before the game to numb his troublesome shoulder, then finished 27 for 43 for 295 yards, two touchdowns and a pair of interceptions for the AFC champions.“There were more sways in the first half where I feel like I could have made a better throw or made a better decision,” he said.Maye returned to health in the Super Bowl lead up after he didn’t throw much last week because of his troublesome shoulder, which he injured on a scramble during the AFC championship game against the Denver Broncos.Bad BunnyPuerto Rican star Bad Bunny brought some of his country's rich culture and history to the Super Bowl, not to mention a surprise during his colorful halftime show: Lady Gaga. Ricky Martin, too.Bad Bunny gave a roll call of the nations of North, South and Central America, including Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, the United States and Canada. A parade of flags from those nations made its way through the sugar cane fields that functioned as the show’s centerpiece.Lady Gaga appeared at a real wedding scene on stage. The couple parted to show her on the stage, and she joined Bad Bunny in performing “Baile Inolvidable.”Stafford staysMatthew Stafford won the AP Most Valuable Player award with his four daughters in tow Thursday night, then announced he would return to the Los Angeles Rams for another season.Stafford turned 38 on Saturday and wants to chase another championship.“Oh yeah, I’ll be back," the quarterback declared.Welcome back, coachFor Terrell Williams, coaching at the Super Bowl meant so much after being away from the team during a nearly five-month fight with prostate cancer.The Patriots welcomed back their defensive coordinator, who hadn't been traveling or on the sideline during his ordeal.“It feels good,” Williams said. “Harold Landry made the comment that when I come in the building, I put a smile on their face because they see how hard I'm working and they know it's not easy. But my comment to Harold was: You guys are putting a smile on my face.’ So it's really like we're all working together. I'm happy to see them, they're happy to see me. What you realize is that we all struggle.”Seahawks staffThe Super Bowl marked the final game for this Seahawks coaching staff. Offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak will depart to coach the Las Vegas Raiders. Kubiak will likely take some Seattle assistants along with him.___AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL