Lakshmi Singh

About 20 percent of the globe's oil passes through the international waterway.

At last check on Wall Street, the Dow was up 110 points.

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Authorities investigating the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, disclosed they sent a lab DNA evidence from gloves found about two miles from Guthrie's Arizona home.

FBI says the gloves look like the ones worn by a masked person recorded on a doorbell camera video at Guthrie's home.

Book lovers are mourning the loss of Michael Silverblatt.

He was the longtime host of the syndicated KCRW show Bookworm, where he went deep interviewing the day's biggest authors and poets.

NPR's Andrew Limbaugh reports.

Celebrations are being held in Hong Kong and around the world for the Year of the Horse.

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People are marking the Lunar New Year with parades, street festivals and visits to temples.

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stocks trading higher this hour.

The Dow is up 110 points.

The S&P is gaining 22.

The Nasdaq gaining 103 points.

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Civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson died this morning at the age of 84, according to a statement from his family and the organization he founded, the Rainbow Push Coalition.

President Trump acknowledged Jackson's death in an online post today.