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"We're very blessed that he is safe, that he is good, that he is protected," Pixie Rogers said of her brother, Travis Timmerman. But Timmerman's family said that he, too, had been missing, although they had no clue he was in Syria. "I'm not sure what his thinking was in that," Rogers said of her brother entering a country in conflict. Only in recent weeks, Rogers said, after Missouri law enforcement was able to get in contact with U.S. Embassy officials in Hungary did the family learn Timmerman was in Lebanon. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a public awareness bulletin that Timmerman had gone missing from Budapest on May 28.

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“Wanted” posters and harassment toward health insurance workers follow the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing. And new dietary guidelines for Americans suggest more plant-based proteins. On social media, images of “wanted” posters put up in Manhattan featured photos of the CEOs of at least two health insurance companies. New dietary guidelines proposedA report released this week containing updated U.S. dietary guidelines recommends that people eat more beans, peas and lentils and decrease their consumption of processed and red meat, sugary drinks, sodium and processed foods. The updated dietary guidelines, recommended by an advisory committee to the Agriculture Department, are expected to go into effect next year and remain in effect until 2030.

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DAMASCUS, Syria — A Missouri man found in Syria told NBC News on Thursday he spent months in a Syrian prison after after crossing into the country on a "pilgrimage" to Damascus. It was not widely known that the man, who identified himself as Travis Timmerman and went missing in Hungary in May, was in Syria. "I was on a pilgrimage to Damascus," he told NBC News in a building on the outskirts of the capital. Travis Timmerman speaking to NBC News outside the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday. A U.S. official told NBC News that Washington was "aware of reports of an American found outside of Damascus and seeking to provide support.

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CNN —A man thought to be a missing US citizen has been found in Damascus, Syria, telling reporters he had recently been freed from jail. The man is believed to be Missouri resident Travis Timmerman, 29, and he was found by residents wandering barefoot in a neighborhood just south of Damascus. In video posted Thursday, the man says only: “My name is Travis,” and adds that he is from the United States. His time being held in the Syrian prison “wasn’t too bad,” he said, according to the outlet. An alert that Timmerman had gone missing was posted by Hungarian police in August, though a Facebook post written by a family friend said that he had been missing since June.

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