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From left to right, Christine Wonsley cries next to her husband, Elmore, and their sons Elmore Jr. and Ethan during a memorial service for her son Nolan Xavier Wells on Monday, July 20, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. (Gerald Herbert/AP via CNN Newsource) By Alisha Ebrahimji, Ryan Young, CNN (CNN) — Nolan Wells should have turned 19 Wednesday surrounded by a birthday cake, candles and laughter.

Heavy machinery is seen inside Big Bend National Park in southern Texas, on August 15.

People arrive to vote in Charlotte, North Carolina shortly after the polls opened on November 3, 2020. (Grant Baldwin/AFP/Getty Images via CNN Newsource) By Gabe Cohen, Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Former Census Bureau leaders, statisticians and voting-rights advocates are raising alarms about an unusual, unsigned new report posted on the agency’s website that claims tens of thousands of noncitizens voted in the 2020 presidential election.

Nolan Wells went missing during a Fourth of July boating trip with friends to Horn Island, and his body was recovered two days later in the water near the island. Two autopsies have not provided a definitive explanation for his death. (WAPT via CNN Newsource) By Nicholas Brooks, WAPT BILOXI, Miss. (WAPT) — Nolan Wells’ family gathered in Biloxi on what would have been his 19th birthday to honor his memory and demand answers about his death.

The two-seater plane that veered off the runway at Carlisle Regional Airport. (WGAL via CNN Newsource) By Aaron Cooper, Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — An experienced pilot who also was an emergency room doctor was killed and two state troopers were injured after a state police helicopter and a small plane collided at a central Pennsylvania airport Wednesday evening, officials said.

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The steady stream of food-recall announcements–plus the fact they’re usually delayed–may be leading to more illness. (Credit: Colleen Michaels / Getty Images) by Jennifer Porter Gore Three months after the likely first batch of lettuce contaminated with the Cyclospora parasite was sold in the United States, food inspectors and public health officials appear to be getting a grip on the outbreak that has sickened thousands and killed two people.

The sudden, unexplained death of their teenage son plunged Elmore Wonsley and Christine Wells-Wonsley into an uncertainty shared by many Black parents. It carries a psychological weight rooted in history — awakening inherited fears, protective rituals and the painful knowledge that keeping a child safe can sometimes feel beyond a parent’s control. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images by Rev.

From Jasmine Crockett to Kamala Harris, Stephen A. Smith has repeatedly aimed his enormous platform at prominent Black women. NABJ decided the pattern deserved scrutiny. Smith’s furious response suggests the organization struck a nerve. Credit: John Nacion/Getty Images for Fanatics by Joseph Williams As a sports journalist-turned-media personality with political ambitions, Stephen A. Smith has never met a room he couldn’t fill with the sound of his own voice.

By Julianne Malveaux (Trice Edney Wire) – When Head Start was launched in 1965 as part of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, it rested on a profoundly democratic proposition: Children should not be punished for their parents’ poverty, and a child born into a low-income household should have the same opportunity to learn and thrive as one born into privilege. Head Start’s history is part of my family history.