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Abdul El-Sayed and Barack Obama spoke as Democrats seek to unify following heated Senate primary

CNN By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday described a “really warm” conversation with former President Barack Obama as the party seeks to find a path forward following last week’s bruising primary. “I like to keep private conversations private, but it was a really, really warm conversation,” El-Sayed

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Former President Barack Obama speaks in Norfolk

Abdul El-Sayed and Barack Obama spoke as Democrats seek to unify following heated Senate primary

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday described a “really warm” conversation with former President Barack Obama as the party seeks to find a path forward following last week’s bruising primary. “I like to keep private conversations private, but it was a really, really warm conversation,” El-Sayed told

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Liam Nies speaks with CNN.

Trump’s Patriot Games are billed as a youth sports contest. They’re also a test of patriotic branding

By Isabelle Khurshudyan, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The premise sounds almost fictional: one boy and one girl from every state, territory and some tribal nations, flown to a private campus in Ohio to compete in a televised athletic contest called the Patriot Games — a Trump-backed youth competition with obstacle courses, patriotic testimonials

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Palm Springs group pushes for decriminalization of psychedelic plants and fungi

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) — A group in Palm Springs is continuing its effort to decriminalize or deprioritize the enforcement of laws involving certain psychedelic plants and fungi. The Palm Springs Psychedelic Society held an educational event Saturday at the Mizell Center, one year after the organization first introduced the community to the Decriminalize Nature

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Delta Air Lines planes sit parked at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on June 28

Passengers evacuated after Delta flight returns to Atlanta due to report of fumes in the flight deck, airline says

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A Florida-bound Delta flight on Saturday returned to Atlanta and evacuated passengers on slides after reports of smoke in the cockpit. “Delta 2204, change of plans. We now have smoke in the back, and we need to deplane immediately,” according to air traffic control audio captured by ATC.com. “The

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Mourners pay tribute to Nolan Wells at a memorial service for Nolan Wells on July 20 in Ocean Springs

A month after Nolan Wells’ death, a lack of clear answers has fueled speculation, distrust and threats

By Holly Yan, Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — At first, the mysterious death of a beloved 18-year-old unified a small Mississippi community in grief and uncertainty. One month later, a dearth of answers about what happened have led strangers nationwide to fill the void with speculation, vitriol and even threats. Some of the conjecture stemmed

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A person wears a face mask as a massive warehouse fire at a cold storage facility continues to burn and spread smoke around the city on June 20 in Los Angeles

A Los Angeles neighborhood was terrorized by a raging warehouse inferno. Now it’s tormented by the suffocating stench

By Celina Tebor, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — For eight brutal days, residents of Boyle Heights watched smoke billow from a burning warehouse and prayed the flames would spare their homes. There was no escaping the black pollution that choked the neighborhood then, and no reprieve now, even five weeks after the fire was extinguished.

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