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Michael Kosnar

Michael Kosnar

Justice Department Producer at NBC News

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  • English
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  • Politics

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Attorney General Merrick Garland to undergo back surgery on Saturday - NBC News

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland will undergo back surgery this weekend and temporarily hand over his official duties to his deputy, the Justice Department announced Monday. A Justice Department spokesperson described the medical procedure, scheduled for Saturday, as “minimally invasive” but said it will require Garland, 71, to be under general anesthesia for about 90 minutes, during which Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco will assume his duties. “The delegation of his duties will…
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The head of the government's election security agency was swatted i...

The director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the top U.S. government agency tasked with providing security and aid to U.S. election infrastructure and its officials, was the target of a swatting incident at the end of December, a spokesperson confirmed to NBC News. News of the incident comes as judges and public officials in the past few weeks have been the target of a wave of swatting calls, in which false emergencies are reported to local police departments in order to…
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Former U.S. ambassador arrested on charges of being an agent for Cu...

MIAMI —A former U.S. ambassador was arrested on charges of secretly working for Cuba and boasting that his decades of work for Havana had “strengthened the revolution immensely,” authorities said Monday. Victor Manuel Rocha, the onetime U.S. envoy to Bolivia, appeared to choke back tears at the defense table as family members entered the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Judge Edwin G. Torres in Miami. The judge asked Rocha, 73, whether he understood the charges, and the defendant responded, “I unde…
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FBI agent carjacked near Capitol Hill - NBC News

WASHINGTON — An off-duty FBI agent was carjacked on Wednesday afternoon near Capitol Hill, authorities said, adding to the sharp increase of similar incidents in D.C. this year. At about 3:45 p.m., two armed people took the vehicle belonging to the agency, said Washington, D.C., police and the FBI’s Washington field office. The agent was not harmed in the incident. The vehicle was recovered by police just after 4 p.m. on Wednesday near the Lincoln Park area of D.C. The FBI’s Washington field off…
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Alaska man charged with threatening to kidnap a U.S. senator - NBC ...

An Alaska man has been arrested and charged with threatening to kidnap and injure a U.S. senator, according to a federal complaint unsealed this week. Arther Charles Graham was arrested Monday in his hometown, Kenai, Alaska, in connection with one criminal count. He is being held in Anchorage and has a detention hearing set for Friday. No lawmaker was named in the court documents, but the unsealed filings refer to the senator as “she.” Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski is the only female senator fr…
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Justice Department threatens to sue Texas over migrant buoys - NBC ...

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department informed Texas in a letter Thursday that it intends to sue the state over its placement of buoys in the Rio Grande river aimed at deterring migrants unless the state acts to remove them. “We write to inform you ... that the United States intends to file legal action in relation to the State of Texas’s unlawful construction of a floating barrier in the Rio Grande River,” Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim and U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza wrote in the letter obt…