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Savannah Guthrie fled from the “Today” show mid-broadcast Tuesday amid her co-anchor Hoda Kotb’s unexplained absence. It was business as usual for Guthrie, 51, when she began hosting the NBC morning show at 7 a.m. ET, but she quickly sparked concern among viewers when she failed to return after a commercial break around 7:30. This is Guthrie’s third time battling COVID-19, having previously contracted the virus in January 2022 and May 2022

Savannah Guthrie was forced to exit the Today show studio mid-broadcast this morning after testing positive for COVID-19 for the third time - while her co-host Hoda Kotb remained off the air for the seventh day in a row. Despite appearing on the show for the first 30-or-so-minutes, viewers were left confused when Savannah, 51, suddenly disappeared with no explanation after a commercial break. Her co-host Sheinelle Jones - who was sitting close beside Savannah for the half hour that she was on-set - later explained that she 'wasn't feeling great' so she decided to take a COVID-19 test, which...

A woman who ran away from home in Alabama to join ISIS said she felt "broken" when the US revoked her citizenship for aiding the terror group. Hoda Muthana spoke in an interview with The News Movement (TNM), conducted from a prison camp in Syria where she is being held by US-allied forces. She said she wanted to return to the US, and volunteered to serve time in prison if necessary. That seems unlikely to happen — the Obama administration stripped Muthana of citizenship in 2016. In 2019, then-President Donald Trump tweeted that he had personally barred Muthana from the...

<p>Hoda Kotb has tested positive for a breakthrough case of COVID-19.</p><p>Following Melvin’s announcement, Kotb, 57, thanked her fans for their support.</p><p>Kotb’s diagnosis comes after she was expected to attend Savannah Guthrie’s 50th birthday bash over the weekend, but a rep for “Today” told Page Six that she didn’t end up going to the party.</p>

Hoda Multhana burned her US passport when she joined ISIS, in a similar gesture of protest to the burning of the US flag...(Getty Photo) Hoda Multhan was born in the US...~snip~ At issue is whether she was "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" at birth, a status that her father claims she holds and that the federal government, starting in 2016 (Obama Administration), has claimed she does not. Hoda Muthana told NBC News that her citizenship has never been questioned before, and that "when I tried filing for a passport it was very easy, It came in 10...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that an Alabama woman who joined ISIS but now wants to return home with the 18-month-old son she had with her ISIS husband will not be admitted back into the United States, saying she is not a U.S. citizen

Hoda Kotb, the longtime co-host of the fourth hour of the NBC morning franchise “Today,” will replace Matt Lauer as co-anchor of the program’s opening hours, the network said on Tuesday. Savannah Guthrie, the show’s other anchor, announced the news of Ms. Kotb’s appointment during Tuesday’s broadcast... This is the first time that two women will be the main hosts of “Today,” which first went on the air in 1952 and is the network’s most profitable franchise. The show has an overwhelmingly female audience, and the feel-good nature of much of its content and the convivial byplay between its personalities...

They’re not gonna take it! Both Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb are taking off from their TODAY show post this month, and neither have plans to return, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned. While Kotb, 52, is on maternity leave following the surprise adoption of infant daughter Haley Joy, Gifford, 63, is celebrating her 26-year-old son Cody’s graduation from his master’s program in the United Kingdom for two weeks. TODAY producers are panicking as the “inexperienced” Jenna Bush Hager and guest cohosts handle the 10 am eastern fourth hour, and have begged the two women to come back — but neither...