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LGBTQ elders struggle with health care, housing and isolation

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Andrés González
LGBTQ older adults are twice as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to grow old single and living alone, according to SAGE, an advocacy organization for LGBTQ elders.

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Gene Dinah, left, and his husband, Robert Malsberry.

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Robert Malsberry with Cleo, the cat he shared with Gene Dinah.

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Robert Malsberry when he was an Air Force lieutenant.

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Photographs of Gene Dinah and his husband, Robert Malsberry, throughout the years.

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Andrea Montanez said it's "scary to be an elder as a transgender person."

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Last Christmas, a SAGE volunteer helped Gene Dinah put up his Christmas tree.

One month and counting: The first post-pandemic Olympics are finally within sight

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Keir Simmons and Chantal Da Silva and David K. Li and Greg Rosenstein and Kaetlyn Liddy and Yuliya Talmazan and Chapman Bell
PARIS — In exactly one month, the planet’s most gifted athletes will float down the Seine in Paris to celebrate the first Olympics since a world pandemic truncated consecutive Games.

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Summer McIntosh during a women's 400-meter medley heat at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, in July 2023.

One month to 2024 Paris Olympics: What to expect

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The city of Paris and its iconic landmarks have gotten an major makeover in preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympics one month away — but will everything be ready for the athletes? NBC’s Keir Simmons reports for TODAY and NBC’s Olympic primetime host Mike Tirico shares what to expect once the games begin.

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The city of Paris and its iconic landmarks have gotten an major makeover in preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympics one month away — but will everything be ready for the athletes? NBC’s Keir Simmons reports for TODAY and NBC’s Olympic primetime host Mike Tirico shares what to expect once the games begin.

Is Putin's Ukraine obsession distracting from a rising threat at home?

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Yuliya Talmazan and Tom Winter
The attacks on synagogues and churches in Dagestan appear to have been Islamist extremism, a rising threat with Vladimir Putin's focus on war in Ukraine.

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The street of Makhachkala in southern Russia and plumes of smoke rising from a building in Derbent, Russia, on Monday.

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Officials inside a burned-out synagogue in Derbent, Dagestan, on Tuesday.

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Putin during a wreath laying ceremony in the Alexandrovsky Garden in Moscow earlier this month.

Kenya-led police force arrives in Haiti to tackle gang violence

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The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence.

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People walk past a barricade in a road in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 20, 2024.

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Haitian Gang Leader Jimmy 'Barbecue' Cherizier is flanked by his henchmen in Port-au-Prince on Feb. 22, 2024.

Russia’s weapons production has actually increased dramatically despite Western sanctions, report says

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Dan De Luce
Despite Western sanctions, Russia has dramatically increased the production of artillery rounds, missiles and drones since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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Russian soldiers load an Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile launchers at a firing position as part of Russian military drill intended to train the troops in using tactical nuclear weapons in a photo taken from video released June 12.

U.S. journalist Gershkovich appears with shaved head as espionage trial begins in Russia

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Fifteen months after Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on espionage charges, he returned there for his trial starting Wednesday behind closed doors.

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Gershkovich looks out from inside a padlocked defendants' cage prior to the hearing Wednesday.

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Brittney Griner, left, and Victor Bout, second right, pass during a prisoner exchange on the tarmac of Abu Dhabi airport in 2022.

After losing home, family hopes for historic café’s survival as Rapidan Dam collapse looms in Minnesota

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Raquel Coronell Uribe
With flooding having already taken their home, the Barnes family is hoping the possible collapse of the Rapidan Dam doesn't also take their café, which has been operating since 1910.

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High water levels at the Rapidan Dam on the Blue Earth River in Mankato, Minn., on Monday.

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High water levels at the Rapidan Dam on the Blue Earth River in Mankato, Minn., on Monday.

Olympic champion swimmers tell Congress U.S. athletes have lost faith in anti-doping regulator

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U.S. Olympic athletes have lost faith in the World Anti-Doping Agency to rid their sports of cheaters ahead of next month’s Summer Games in Paris, two former gold medalists said Tuesday in prepared before a House subcommittee.

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Former Olympians Michael Phelps, from left, and Allison Schmitt, from right, and Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart are sworn in before testifying before a House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill, on Tuesday.

Closeup look at American pier off Gaza that has struggled to deliver aid

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Traveling with the U.S. military, NBC News' Courtney Kube got a first-hand look at the American temporary pier system anchored to the shore in Gaza. The pier was announced with great fanfare by President Biden, but has only delivered aid for 17 of the last 40 days, largely due to weather issues. NBC News' Courtney Kube reports.

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Traveling with the U.S. military, NBC News' Courtney Kube got a first-hand look at the American temporary pier system anchored to the shore in Gaza. The pier was announced with great fanfare by President Biden, but has only delivered aid for 17 of the last 40 days, largely due to weather issues. NBC News' Courtney Kube reports.

Covid on the rise again in dozens of states

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Health authorities say Covid cases are on the rise around the nation, with 15 states reporting high levels of the virus in wastewater. While the severity of the disease is lessening overall, the elderly and immunocompromised are still at higher risk. NBC News' Erin McLaughlin reports.

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Health authorities say Covid cases are on the rise around the nation, with 15 states reporting high levels of the virus in wastewater. While the severity of the disease is lessening overall, the elderly and immunocompromised are still at higher risk. NBC News' Erin McLaughlin reports.

Authorities search for migrants with possible ties to Isis-affiliated smuggling network, officials say

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More than 50 migrants with possible ties to an ISIS-affiliated smuggling network are at large in the U.S., officials tell NBC News. The officials say immigration authorities are currently looking for the migrants, whose whereabouts are unknown. NBC News' Julia Ainsley reports.

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More than 50 migrants with possible ties to an ISIS-affiliated smuggling network are at large in the U.S., officials tell NBC News. The officials say immigration authorities are currently looking for the migrants, whose whereabouts are unknown. NBC News' Julia Ainsley reports.

Influencers and popular podcasts fuel election disinformation among Black voters, report shows

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Marquise Francis
At least 40 million Americans may be regularly targeted and fed disinformation within Black online spaces by a host of sources across social media, a new study says.

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Candace Owens on the set of "Candace" in 2022.

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A vendor sells Trump merchandise outside a rally for former President Donald Trump in Laconia, N.H, on Jan. 22, the eve of the New Hampshire primary.

Family of Afro Indigenous activist in immigration detention worries he may be deported back to danger

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Nicole Acevedo
Erlin Centeno's family has feared being permanently separated since the father of three children was detained four months ago following a routine check-in with immigration authorities in New York City.

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Centeno and his wife, Trini Merced Palacios, with their daughter, Genesis, at a birthday party.

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Centeno and Palacios on their wedding day.

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Centeno and Palacios present their youngest son, Jeremias, at church.

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Centeno at a Father's Day celebration at church.

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Erlin and his son Keslor.

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Keslor's letter to immigration authorities, urging for his father's release.

Texas authorities investigating why officer responding to a robbery had a man in his back seat before crash that killed mom and son

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Janelle Griffith
Almost five days after one of its officers was involved in a fatal crash that claimed the lives of a mother and her teenage son on his birthday, the Missouri City Police Department in Texas cannot explain why the officer was responding to a call and why a man was found in the back seat of his vehicle hours after the crash.

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Angela Stewart and her son Mason.
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