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A selection of the best reporting and most interesting stories from NBC News.

Lionel Messi runs on the soccer field in celebration

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Going off-script

Media companies are spending more on live sports at the expense of reality TV, scripted dramas and comedies.

Illustration of photos like ice cream cones, a person getting tattooed, people climbing Mount Everest, and price tag stickers.

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Bounty hunters

On a new ‘bounty’ website, people are putting price tags on risky real-life actions such as bizarre tattoos and quitting jobs.

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Delayed justice

A young mother was found dead in her car at the bottom of a pond in 2001. Decades later, a key witness finally broke his silence.

New York state of mind

Generations of Knicks fans turned out in droves on the streets of Manhattan to celebrate the once-in-a-lifetime victory parade.

Dealing the Dead

Photos of Carl Yenner, Aurimar Villegas, Nika Hodges and Dale Legget.

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'We didn't know she was dead': 11 families learned what happened to relatives' bodies from NBC News

Aurimar Iturriago Villegas's mother looks at her photo at her home in Venezuela.

A young woman's body was chopped up for science — as her mother desperately fought to bring her home

She left Venezuela hoping to lift her family out of poverty. When she was murdered, her corpse became a commodity in the U.S. body trade.

Karen Wandel's father, Libero Marinelli, Jr., was a widowed Army veteran.

A veteran's corpse was sent across state lines — before his family knew he was dead

Libero Marinelli Jr.’s journey from a public hospital to a for-profit body broker demonstrates the peril of an industry with little regulation, an NBC News investigation found.

The body broker industry has no rules. For one disgraced chiropractor, that was perfect.

A disgraced chiropractor found a new job selling bodies. In an industry with few guardrails, he soon faced accusations of mishandling human remains.

As families searched, a Texas medical school cut up their loved ones without consent

The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business dissecting and exporting corpses.

Texas medical program stops using unclaimed bodies following NBC News investigation

The Health Science Center had received about 2,350 unclaimed bodies in the past five years. More than 830 of them were selected for use.

NBC News publishes the names of more than 1,800 people whose unclaimed bodies were given over

Survivors said they were disturbed and heartbroken to learn that their loved ones’ bodies may have been studied.

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Iran war

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How Trump’s agreement with Iran compares to Obama’s

Analysis: Trump’s memorandum leaves most big issues for future negotiations. Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal was a detailed agreement hammered out over two years.

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Why the falling fertility rate isn’t a crisis — and smartphones aren’t to blame

The theory that digital technology is shrinking our population has picked up steam, but many researchers aren’t convinced.

Vector Illustration of a baby mobile with phones hanging off of it.

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Iran war

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Here’s why it could take weeks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Uncertainty over the ceasefire’s fragility and fears of possible mines and fees implemented by Iran mean many are cautiously waiting before setting sail.

Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam

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World Cup

Pride and protest in ‘Tehrangeles’: A divided diaspora watches Iran at the World Cup

For Iranian immigrants, many whose lives are shaped by exile, revolution and political upheaval, rooting for Team Melli has never been straightforward.