WATCH: Man with Similar Backpack Seen on Person in Chilling Porch Video Spotted a Few Miles Away From Nancy Guthrie’s Home Shortly Before Abduction… FBI Probing
February 12, 2026
A man wearing a similar backpack seen on the person in the chilling porch surveillance footage was spotted a few miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home shortly before her abduction.
TMZ obtained new video of a man with a similar backpack who was recorded 5 miles away from Nancy Guthrie’s home shortly before she was kidnapped.
The man seen in the new Ring camera footage tried to enter a locked gate at 1:52 am.
Nancy Guthrie’s Nest camera was disconnected at 1:47 and it detected the masked person seen on the porch at 2:12 am
The backpack worn by Nancy Guthrie’s abductor is a Walmart Ozark Trail Hiker, according to authorities.
The FBI is aware of the new video and seeking to interview the man.
BREAKING: FBI and sheriff seeking to question man with backpack captured on video just miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home, a source familiar with the investigation tells Fox News Digital.
The man in this video — recorded just 5 miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home — is on the FBI’s radar — TMZ has learned — and the timing of the video is critical.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … the FBI is lasering in on the man in the video, who is both wearing and carrying backpacks … right around the time of the kidnapping.
The backpack the man is carrying appears to have reflective straps … similar to the one the apparent kidnapper was wearing as he approached Nancy’s front door. It’s unclear if the reflectors are on the shoulder straps or the side of the backpack.
TMZ broke the story … the backpack seen at Nancy’s house is a Walmart Ozark Trail Hiker, and that has now been confirmed by authorities.
The man in the new video is trying to enter a locked gate, to no avail. He was recorded on a resident’s Ring camera at 1:52 AM.
So, the video of the man with 2 backpacks left that scene at 1:53 AM … BEFORE Nancy was kidnapped. IF he is the kidnapper, he would have had 19 minutes to drive the 5 miles, put on his disguise, and approach Nancy’s door.
The unmasked man in the new video is wearing two backpacks.
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New video of a man with a similar backpack was recorded just before Nancy Guthrie kidnapping.
US-EU Tensions Escalate as America Probes Alleged Brussels Interference in Romanian Election
February 12, 2026
United States Capitol via Wikimedia Commons
An increasingly acute transatlantic confrontation appears to be taking shape as the American government turns its attention toward what has been described as widespread, systematic electoral interference originating in Brussels.
At the center of the storm is the Central/Eastern European country of Romania, whose presidential election—after the victory of Călin Georgescu was nullified—has become a flashpoint in an increasingly heated debate over national sovereignty, globalist censorship, and the future of democracy in Europe.
The US House of Representatives is reportedly preparing hearings that could place former Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, one of the chief architects of the Ukraine war, under scrutiny over allegations tied to European censorship practices and election manipulation. Congressional investigators are reportedly focusing on Romania as a test case for how EU institutions and globalist-aligned governments effectively neutralize political outcomes deemed ‘unacceptable’ by the entrenched, corrupt establishment in Brussels.
Far from signaling any hostility toward Europe as a civilization, the Trump administration’s posture is aimed at the unelected machinery of the European Commission, the EU’s executive body which faces little to no oversight or accountability. Trump allies insist the conflict is not with nations, but with a supranational bureaucracy that has increasingly substituted regulatory coercion for democratic consent.
Romania’s nullified presidential election, without a doubt, sits at the core of the controversy. The second round of voting in the presidential election, which followed Georgescu’s resounding first round victory, had already begun when Romania’s globalist authorities abruptly annulled the process, citing claims of ‘foreign interference’ that, to this day, have yet to be substantiated with publicly released evidence.
Brussels, along with its subservient government in Bucharest, officials quickly blamed Russian influence, but a preliminary report from the US House Judiciary Committee challenges that narrative. Drawing on open-source intelligence and platform disclosures, the report concludes there is no identifiable foreign actor capable of justifying the extraordinary decision to cancel the election.
It should be noted that Romania’s globalist authorities have still not declassified the national security meeting that allegedly triggered the cancellation. This seemingly deliberate opacity has fueled suspicion that the decision to cancel the Romanian people’s vote was politically motivated rather than security-driven.
The issue has placed former US Ambassador to Romania Kathleen Kavalec in the spotlight. Her recall and potential testimony under oath are seen by critics, of which there is no shortage, as a serious liability for figures associated with the Biden-era foreign policy apparatus.
Kavalec is reported to have been present during key moments of judicial pressure and institutional coordination in Bucharest—developments that are widely believed to have contributed to the cancellation of the election. Her account of the events that transpired could illuminate whether American diplomatic channels were used to bless or facilitate constitutional abuses and anti-democratic dictates.
Romania’s former president Klaus Iohannis, widely regarded as a loyal executor of Western globalist institutional directives, now finds his legacy, or what was left of it, under intense scrutiny. Allegations that senior US officials encouraged Romanian authorities to proceed with legally dubious actions are expected to feature prominently in upcoming hearings.
The unfolding scandal has deep political implications in America as it approaches high-stakes midterm elections. A revived inquiry into transatlantic election interference threatens to damage Democratic credibility at a moment when control of Congress hangs in the balance.
Across the EU, the reaction, unsurprisingly, has been defensive and increasingly alarmist. French President Emmanuel Macron, days ago, openly warned EU leaders to brace for confrontation with the United States, accusing President Trump of seeking to dismantle the Union’s centralized power structure.
The European Commission’s disciplinary culture has also drawn renewed criticism. Earlier this year, members of the European People’s Party were reportedly sanctioned for procedural dissent, reinforcing claims that dissent within Brussels is tolerated only until it becomes inconvenient for the powers that be.
Against this backdrop, Hungary has emerged as a critical EU member state resisting Brussels’ tyranny and anti-democratic interference in national politics. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government, long at odds with Brussels’ globalist class and EU centralization, has supported efforts to expose what it refers to as a systematic assault on national sovereignty.
This week, MCC Brussels announced the creation of the Observatory for Interference in Democracy, an initiative designed to document how elections across the EU are increasingly shaped through regulatory pressure and coercion, NGO networks, and digital governance mechanisms. Romania’s canceled election will be one of its first major case studies.
BREAKING: MCC Brussels launches the Democracy Interference Observatory (DIO).
Our mission: To document and expose how the EU and EU-linked actors influence national elections across Europe. pic.twitter.com/mPCeKyNJ4N
The observatory plans to examine how the EU’s Digital Services Act has been deployed to reshape online discourse during election cycles. Requests for related Commission documents have already been denied, with officials citing regulatory supremacy over transparency rules.
According to MCC researchers, this refusal mirrors a broader pattern: allegations of foreign interference are invoked, emergency measures are imposed, and dissenting voices are suppressed under the banner of “democratic protection.”
The Romanian model, critics argue, is now being replicated elsewhere. In Hungary, opposition figures have echoed the same rhetoric, calling for expanded use of EU digital laws to police political speech ahead of national elections.
Supporters of Orbán and Romanian conservative candidate Călin Georgescu see this as proof of a coordinated strategy. In their view, sovereignty-minded leaders are targeted through administrative vetoes enforced from above.
Federal Judge in Florida Denies BBC’s Motion for Stay, Schedules Trial of Trump’s Defamation Lawsuit Against Broadcaster for February 2027
February 12, 2026
Trump is asking for $10 billion in his defamation suit.
The ‘Beeb’ still hopes to toss the case out with a ‘motion to dismiss’.
President Donald J. Trump got an early victory in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
A Federal judge in Florida has rejected the BBC’s application for stay, and the suit is now set to go to trial in February 2027.
TRUMP’S $10BN BBC LAWSUIT GETS GREEN LIGHT FOR TRIAL
Florida judge says no to BBC delay. $10bn defamation claim over edited Jan 6th clip goes to trial Feb 2027.
“The trial date was set in an order Wednesday by US District Judge Roy K. Altman in Miami. The case will only go to trial if it survives the UK news outlet’s upcoming motion to toss the case out.”
TRUMP’S $10BN BBC LAWSUIT GETS GREEN LIGHT FOR TRIAL
Florida judge says no to BBC delay. $10bn defamation claim over edited Jan 6th clip goes to trial Feb 2027.
“Trump sued the BBC over a misleading edit of his speeches in a documentary before the 2024 presidential election that gave the impression he’d made a direct call for violence before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by his supporters. The BBC apologized but denies defaming Trump.”
AI image by Grok: the BBC is a real dumpster fire at this point.
Judge Altman also denied the BBC’s request to pause discovery process in the case until he rules on the broadcaster’s motion to dismiss – a decision that is due in March.
The BBC will argue that its documentary ‘was fair despite a misleading edit of one segment’.
“The BBC said will also argue that Trump’s suit fails to meet the high bar necessary for alleging defamation against a public figure. The standard requires a showing of ‘actual malice’, meaning the allegedly defamatory statement was made intentionally or with a reckless disregard for the truth.”
‘It must mean they have nothing to say…’
Media Lawyer Jonathan Coad on the BBC declining to comment on the news that Donald Trump’s £10bn case against the broadcaster will go to trial.
JUST IN: DHS Funding Bill Fails in Senate Ahead of Friday Shutdown Deadline
February 12, 2026
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The US Senate failed to pass a bill to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security ahead of the Friday expiration of DHS funding.
Without DHS funding, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can still function largely uninterrupted. Still, other agencies, including the Coast Guard and Transportation Security Administration (TSA), will face disruption.
The funding bill did not reach the 60-vote threshold to invoke cloture under the filibuster rule.
Only one Democrat, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, voted in favor of invoking cloture.
Senate Democrats voted Thursday to block a motion to advance a House-passed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, putting Washington on the brink of a partial government shutdown that will affect more than 260,000 federal employees.
The motion, which required 60 votes, failed to advance by a vote of 52-47.
Democrats blocked the legislation after rejecting an offer from the White House they said didn’t go far enough to reform immigration enforcement operations after the fatal shootings of two protesters in Minneapolis last month.
As a result, funding for key agencies such as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Coast Guard will lapse on Saturday without further action from Congress.
This comes after a partial government shutdown was ended last week with a negotiated spending package for the Department of Homeland Security that funded the Department for only about two weeks.
Democrats are demanding reforms to ICE, including unmasking agents, forcing them to wear body cameras during immigration, and forcing them to obtain warrants from a judge as opposed to administrative warrants against criminal illegal aliens.
The Trump Administration has already caved to some of the Democrats’ demands by pulling ICE agents out of Minnesota and forcing agents to wear body-worn cameras.
Sen. Joni Ernst and White Coat Waste Hammer Pentagon-Funded Labs for Hiding Spending on Octopus Hypnosis, Monkey Mind-Reading, and Mouse mRNA Tests in Violation of Federal Law
February 12, 2026
White Coat Waste and Republican Sen. Joni Ernst released two letters on Thursday exposing how Pentagon-funded animal labs are flat-out ignoring federal law and refusing to tell American taxpayers how much of their money is being spent on cruel and bizarre experiments.
Ernst sent a letter to the Department of Defense Inspector General, Platte Moring, demanding answers about why grantees are dodging the COST Act, the commonsense transparency law she authored that requires every DOD-funded project to publicly post the exact dollar amount in press releases, studies, and announcements.
In her letter, Sen. Ernst laid out five jaw-dropping examples where labs took Pentagon money but conveniently forgot to tell the public how much, including:
“Octopus hypnosis” (tonic immobility) research funded by the Office of Naval Research
Elephant seal sleep studies backed by seven different Pentagon grants
Snail mucus experiments paid for by the Air Force, Space Force, and Navy
“Doomscrolling” on Facebook behavioral research
Monkey brain-signal decoding to “read their minds” – one project that reportedly sucked up as much as $6.25 million
Every single one of these public announcements or published studies admitted “DOD funding” in vague terms but refused to post the actual price tag, a direct violation of the COST Act, which Ernst got passed in the 2021 NDAA.
“The Pentagon diverted defense dollars toward octopus hypnosis, calculating how long seals—the fin-footed, semiaquatic mammals, not Navy SEALs—sleep, and monkey mind reading,” Ernst told the Daily Caller. “Well, monkeys and seals and octopi, oh my! It’s anyone’s guess how much was spent on this questionable research because the price for taxpayers isn’t provided, as required by law.”
“This is exactly why I authored my COST Act — to put an end to this shady spending and ensure folks in Iowa, and across the nation know exactly how their hard-earned money is being spent,” Ernst added. “If we want the Pentagon – the only federal agency that has never passed an audit – to clean up its books, putting public price tags on these funds can no longer be Mission Impossible.”
On the same day, government watchdog White Coat Waste Project sent its own formal complaint to the IG, which they first shared with The Gateway Pundit, naming four major universities for brazenly violating the same statute while torturing animals with taxpayer cash.
Oregon Health & Science University – Injected monkeys with an experimental HIV-like virus after giving them a “therapeutic.” At least $7.3 million in taxpayer dollars.
Emory University – Pumped synthetic mRNA into mice. Roughly $28.7 million was funded by taxpayers.
Harvard’s Wyss Institute – Gave pigs traumatic brain injuries. About $4.4 million in taxpayer dollars spent.
UC Berkeley – Implanted neural probes into bats’ brains. Nearly $1.5 million from taxpayers.
All four universities touted the experiments on their websites and news pages but never disclosed the exact taxpayer funds involved, brazenly violating the COST Act.
WCW is urging the DOD to suspend funding to those who have violated the law.
“We respectfully urge your office to work with Senator Ernst to ensure full compliance with the COST Act and request that the DOD suspend taxpayer funding to any grantees that violate this statute,” WCW’s letter concluded.
This isn’t the first time Sen. Ernst and White Coat Waste have teamed up to expose and end wasteful animal experiments. The two previously worked together to shut down Pentagon-funded cat constipation studies and cruel puppy poisoning tests that were being conducted in China with U.S. tax dollars.
In a statement provided to The Gateway Pundit, WCW Senior Vice President Justin Goodman said:
“White Coat Waste is proud to support Senator Joni Ernst’s tireless work to rein in reckless DOD spending at home and abroad, like the Pentagon’s wasteful cat constipation experiments and puppy poisoning tests in China that we worked together to expose and end. Her common-sense COST Act requires a public price tag on Pentagon-funded projects, and our investigators have uncovered animal labs skirting her transparency law and referred them to the Inspector General. Taxpayers have a right to know how their money is being spent — and any animal lab that violates Sen. Ernst’s federal funding disclosure requirements doesn’t deserve another dime.”
The Pentagon’s $140+ billion annual research budget is supposed to make America stronger, not fund snail slime, octopus hypnosis, or secret monkey mind-reading projects while hiding the costs from the Americans footing the bill.
Taxpayers deserve to know exactly where their money is going. Sen. Ernst’s COST Act was designed to end the secrecy. These labs are violating the law, and the DOD Inspector General now has a clear mandate to enforce it.
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New video of a man with a similar backpack was recorded just before Nancy Guthrie kidnapping.
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