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READ MOREThe president is holding a meeting on South Sudan to seek an end to violence and human rights abuses in Africa's newest country
READ MOREMore than 6,000 athletes from 165 countries streamed into the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
READ MOREThe candidate for the Democratic presidential omination says she never sent or received classified information with private emails
READ MOREPresident Obama will speak to President Kenyatta about al-Shabab terror threats
READ MOREGeneva Reed-Veal, mother of Sandra Bland, listens to family attorney Cannon Lambert Sr. during a news conference at Dupage African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday, July 22, 2015, in Lisle, Ill. Bland was arrested and taken to the Waller County jail, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of Houston on July 10 and found dead July 13. Officials say Bland hanged herself with a plastic garbage bag in her jail cell, a contention her family and supporters dispute. (AP Photo/Matt Marton)
Family, friends say Sandra Bland unlikely to end her life
READ MOREHelped by an aide, left, Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of President Barack Obama, boards the plane at Kisumu International Airport, Friday, July 24, 2015, on her way to Nairobi to receive her grandson. (AP Photo/James Keyee)
Obama arrived in Nairobi today
READ MOREMuhammadu Buhari seeks US assistance in fight against Boko Haram
READ MOREThe president told the NAACP that racial bias and lack of equal opportunities drive Black men into the prison system
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