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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, …

A Rhode Island hiker killed a rabid coyote with his bare hands after being attacked and bitten on the leg on Friday, and officials believe the same coyote was involved in another attack on a human. The man was hiking in the woods of Johnston, a town about 10 miles …

U.S. price growth cooled in January, slowing from 3.4% to 3.1% on a 12-month basis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. Excluding food and gas prices, “core” price growth was flat at 3.9% compared with December. While price growth continued to drift downward last month, the January data missed …

CONROE, Texas — Years before a shooter opened fire at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, residents in the small neighborhood said they had run-ins with the suspect, who frightened them. Six women who live in the neighborhood in Conroe, a north Houston suburb, said the woman, Genesse Ivonne Moreno, targeted …