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Ali Gostanian

Ali Gostanian is a New York-based senior reporter with NBC News' Social Newsgathering team.

Ali Gostanian is a New York-based senior reporter with NBC News' Social Newsgathering team.

Latest from Ali Gostanian

41d ago

Olga Carmona scores World Cup-winning goal for Spain, then learns of father's death

Olga Carmona scored the World Cup-winning goal for Spain in what turned into an incredibly bittersweet Sunday — as she was told after the match that her father had died, officials said.

Timeline: How ferocious wildfires devastated Maui, hour by hour

NBC News has reconstructed a timeline of events in Hawaii, where windswept wildfires devastated communities and killed scores of people.
55d ago

Skipper of boat in Italy crash that killed U.S. publishing executive faces manslaughter investigation

ROME — The skipper of a rented motorboat involved in a crash off the Amalfi Coast that killed a U.S. publishing executive is being investigated on suspicion of manslaughter, a prosecutor in southern Italy said Saturday.
94d ago

Simone Biles set to return to competition for first time since 2021 Tokyo Olympics

Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles is set to take the competitive stage later this summer in her first sanctioned event in nearly two years, officials said Wednesday.
159d ago

Arkansas man arrested on charges of piercing teen son's ear

Arkansas police arrested a man accused of piercing his teenage son's ear in alleged violation of state laws against various forms of "body art," authorities said Sunday.
160d ago

NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell steps down after investigation into inappropriate conduct

Jeff Shell, the CEO of NBCUniversal, is leaving the company “effective immediately” after an investigation into “inappropriate conduct,” the media company’s owner, Comcast, announced Sunday.
198d ago

Teen called racial slur and attacked on NYC subway, police say

A 14-year-old has been arrested in connection with the attack of a Black teenager on a New York City subway in which he was beaten by three people who hurled racial slurs at him, police said.
222d ago

One dead, more than a dozen hurt in industrial blast outside Cleveland

More than a dozen people were injured, at least one critically, in an industrial plant explosion Monday in Oakwood Village, Ohio, NBC affiliate WKYC reported.
248d ago

Diver and mom who rescued him after he was swept to sea speak out: 'Definitely a miracle'

Diver Dylan Gartenmayer and his mother, Tabitha Gartenmayer, spoke about his viral Key West, Florida, rescue mission with TODAY.
250d ago

Watch the unbelievable moment a Key West family found their missing son lost at sea

Priscilla Gartenmayer's TikTok of the moment her family spotted her missing cousin, 22-year-old Dylan Gartenmayer, has gone viral.
377d ago

All of Puerto Rico without power after Hurricane Fiona makes landfall

Puerto Rico was without power as nightfall approached Sunday amid catastrophic flooding, hurricane force winds and the destruction of at least one bridge, five