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Initially, the local sheriff had said there was no footage because Guthrie didn't have the kind of subscription that would have stored the video, but they were eventually able to access what they called residual data.
The case has drawn a storm of attention from the media, amateur sleuths, and true crime obsessives, some of whom have gone to the scene.
Yesterday, a pizza was delivered to Nancy Guthrie's home for a YouTuber live streaming from there.
It was not the only delivery, leading the local sheriff's office to put out a statement saying, please do not order food to a crime scene.
Now, three quick updates on the Trump administration.
In Washington yesterday, an effort by federal prosecutors to indict Democratic lawmakers for posting a video that enraged President Trump collapsed in court.
No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.
In the video posted in November, the six Democrats reminded active duty troops and intelligence officers that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders.
Trump called the message seditious behavior and even suggested the Democrats should be executed.
In court on Wednesday, jurors refused to indict them over it.
That kind of pushback from grand juries is becoming increasingly common as Trump appointees push forward with legally questionable cases in an effort to appease the president.
Also, the Department of Homeland Security has hired a new social media manager, despite the fact that his former colleagues raised alarms about the content he was posting.
21-year-old Peyton Rollins has spent most of the past year overhauling the Labor Department's social media pages.
which started promoting an anti-Semitic trope and Confederate imagery, and used the typeface from the original cover of Hitler's Mein Kampf.
According to internal messages and emails obtained by The Times, Rollins' co-workers repeatedly objected to the content, saying it made them uncomfortable and that it was getting engagement online from far-right extremists.
Rollins did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
The DHS social media accounts he'll now be helping run
had already been under scrutiny for promoting white supremacist messaging.
And last update, the drugmaker Moderna says that the Food and Drug Administration has refused to review its cutting-edge flu vaccine.
The unusual rejection, which came after the company spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars testing its shot, is the latest sign that federal health policy, under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has become hostile to vaccine development.