The move comes after President Trump faced condemnation from both sides of the aisle over his plans to pull U.S. troops out of Syria.
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NBC InvestigationsA bipartisan pair of lawmakers introduced a bill that would grant U.S. visas to Syrian Kurds and others who worked with American forces fighting ISIS. By @dandeluce
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Chased by U.S. special operations dogs, the ISIS leader fled into what Trump called a dead-end tunnel with three children, and blew himself up.
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NBC InvestigationsFrom @KenDilanianNBC with @ckubeNBC and @mitchellreports After hunting him for years, U.S. commandos raided Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's compound, killed and captured his fighters, and chased the ISIS leader into a tunnel.
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“The problem is we need some money,” Giuliani says to unidentified man during accidental call to NBC News writer.
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NBC InvestigationsRudy Giuliani butt-dialed an NBC News reporter — twice — leaving long voicemail messages in which he's heard discussing Joe Biden, business in Bahrain and his need for cash. By @richschapiro
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If U.S. Attorney John Durham is conducting a criminal investigation, it’s not clear what allegations of wrongdoing are being examined.
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NBC InvestigationsA review launched by AG William Barr into the origins of the Russia investigation has expanded significantly amid concerns about whether the probe has any legal or factual basis. @KenDilanianNBC@Tom_Winter@JuliaEAinsley
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The Senate Intel Committee issued a report Tuesday, the product of a two-year probe into how Russia tried to influence U.S. public opinion in 2016.
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NBC InvestigationsTwo-thirds of the Internet Research Agency's Facebook ads were focused on race, the report found, adding that black voters were targeted with messages such as: "Don't Vote for Hillary Clinton" and "Don't Vote At All."
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The report, compiled by the U.S. Air Force and obtained by NBC News, details the importance of each of the 51 military projects chosen by the Trump administration to lose their funding.
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NBC InvestigationsExclusive from @ckubeNBC: Trump's plan to pay for his border wall by taking funds from Air Force military construction projects poses various national security risks, per a new report.
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In phone calls to McMaster, Trump told his second national security adviser that he misses him.
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NBC InvestigationsAs Trump began losing confidence in national security adviser John Bolton, he reached out to the man he had fired to give Bolton the job: retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster. From @carolelee@ckubeNBC@kwelkernbc
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Thousands of translators in Iraq face danger as they wait to gain entry to the U.S.
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NBC InvestigationsFrom @dandeluce Exclusive: Only 2 Iraqi translators who worked with U.S. troops got U.S. visas last year. Advocates say the administration is turning its back on intepreters who risked their lives for the U.S. and are still at risk from militants.
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The officials would not provide details of how Hamza bin Laden died or if the U.S. played a role. It is unclear if Washington has confirmed his death.
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NBC InvestigationsExclusive from @ckubeNBC Experts believe Osama bin Laden's son was being groomed for a leadership role in al Qaeda. His last public statement was in 2018.
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The troops "monitor" migrants at a Texas facility. One congressman said they shouldn't be prison guards, and are close to breaking the posse comitatus law.
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NBC InvestigationsExclusive from @ckubeNBC and @carolelee Despite assurances active-duty troops wouldn't be in direct contact with migrants or used as police, they stand watch over migrants in Donna, Texas. @NBCNightlyNews
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Doctors found "significant differences" but couldn't say if they were caused by whatever happened in Cuba or if those differences were tied to symptoms.
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NBC InvestigationsFrom @JoshNBCNews The diplomats had less white matter in their brains, less connectivity in vision and hearing areas, doctors found. Other experts were skeptical of the findings. Watch @mitchellreports for more.
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Some accounts were set up months in advance. And some trolls used fake accounts to make money, researchers found, with one perhaps generating $1 million.
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NBC InvestigationsA new analysis of 10 million tweets by cybersecurity firm Symantec shows Russia's interference campaign was better planned and executed than previously known. From @KenDilanianNBC and @bpopken
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The NYPD recorded 184 hate crimes through June 2 — up from 112 in 2018 — during a period when the city experienced a continued reduction in overall crimes.
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NBC InvestigationsThe number of hate crimes in New York City jumped by 64 percent this year, officials said Tuesday, fueled by a major spike in attacks on Jews. @Tom_Winter@richschapiro
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Not until 39 hours later — after two nights in a van — did the last child step out of a van to be reunited. Most spent at least 23 hours in the vehicles.
Newly obtained documents show that ICE detainees are sometimes placed in solitary for reasons that have nothing to do with rule violations.
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NBC InvestigationsICE routinely holds gay and disabled detainees in solitary confinement where they languish in a cell alone for more than 22 hours a day. The agency says it's largely for safety reasons. #solitaryvoices
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"What you are requesting," said a top ICE official, "is not something that we are going to be able to complete in a rapid fashion."
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NBC InvestigationsExclusive: While the Trump admin was saying it would reunite thousands of migrant families, internal emails show officials could only link about 60 parents to their kids. Watch @jacobsoboroff on @allinwithchris@chrislhayes tonight for more.
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Carl Kline was supposed to appear before House committee staff Tuesday to face questions related to his handling of White House security clearances.
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NBC InvestigationsRep. Elijah Cummings, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said he plans to speak with his members about scheduling a vote to hold Kline in contempt for defying the subpoena.
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. In its first year, the number of companies paying no taxes went from 30 to 60.
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NBC Investigations60 major corporations, including Netflix and Amazon, told the IRS their 2018 tax rate was effectively zero under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a new study found. From our partners at @Publici
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A senior administration official said they believe Trump is convinced that family separation has been the most effective policy at deterring asylum-seekers.
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NBC InvestigationsEXCLUSIVE: President Trump has for months urged his administration to reinstate large-scale separation of migrant families crossing the border, three U.S. officials told NBC News. @JuliaEAinsley@GeoffRBennett
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