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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s legal team is frustrated over the findings and tone of special counsel Robert Hur’s report, several letters leaked Thursday between Biden’s attorneys and top Justice Department officials show. A key exchange of letters viewed by NBC News occurred the day before the Justice Department released …

WASHINGTON — An FBI informant has been indicted on two counts of allegedly feeding the bureau false information about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden during the 2020 presidential campaign. Alexander Smirnov, 43, disliked Joe Biden and was arrested in Las Vegas after returning from a trip overseas, …

One person was killed and more than 20 were injured when shots were fired after a rally Wednesday celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory.  While details of what exactly unfolded before the gunfire erupted are still coming to light, here is what NBC News has learned so far …

President Joe Biden has been handed an endorsement from an unexpected and perhaps unwelcome source: The Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that his country would prefer to see the “more experienced” Biden in the White House for a second term than the Republican frontrunner, former President Donald Trump.  …

Second time was a charm for a Houston-based company that launched a privately built moon lander into space early Thursday. The spacecraft, developed by Intuitive Machines, lifted off at 1:05 a.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The lander rode into orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon …

Attempts by NBC Los Angeles to reach the parent company, Oceanwide Holdings, through addresses listed on corporate filings and by phone and email were unsuccessful. In the last news release posted to its website, in 2020, the company distanced itself from disgraced ex-Los Angeles City Council member José Huizar, who …

WASHINGTON — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, released an unusual statement Wednesday warning of a “serious national security threat” without providing additional details, pre-empting what the White House said was a planned briefing for congressional leaders. Four sources with knowledge of the issue told NBC News that the …

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley defended her past support of Donald Trump while deepening her criticism of her main rival for the GOP nomination, arguing that the former president is “more diminished than he was.” In an interview Tuesday with “TODAY” co-host Craig Melvin, Haley made a generational argument for …

WOODBURY, N.Y. — A decisive victory Tuesday for Tom Suozzi flipped a bellwether New York House district into the Democratic column, thinning an already small House GOP majority and potentially offering a preview of the campaign tactics in 2024 battleground races nationally. Suozzi, a Democratic former congressman, defeated Republican Mazi …

Democrats won a state House special election in Pennsylvania Tuesday night, preserving the party’s narrow majority in the closely watched battleground state, The Associated Press projected. In the race for the open seat in the 140th state House District, Democrat Jim Prokopiak, a local school board member in Bucks County, …