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Drake doesn’t often find himself upstaged — particularly in his hometown of Toronto, where the Raptors reside and the rapper holds the title of “global ambassador” for the team — but it’s not often that a former U.S. President attends an NBA Finals game. On …

Former President Barack Obama once against showed off his keen sense of style on Sunday night, impressing in a sharp leather jacket while attending Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the Toronto Raptors and the Golden State Warriors. Obama earned high praise…

Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Drake has become synonymous with everything Toronto Raptors during the franchise's first run to the NBA Finals, and his 2011 verse "Always presidential and tonight's no blue moon" has never been more relevant than ahead of Sunday …

When she made roux for her shrimp-and-sausage gumbo (one cup peanut oil and eight tablespoons flour) in her joyfully elegant restaurant in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Leah Chase, who died on June 1 at age 96, stirred very slowly with her wooden spo…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Leah Chase, who ran Dooky Chase in New Orleans "I always say we changed the course of America over a bowl of gumbo." In the 1950s and 60s at the height of the US civil rights movement, when activists needed somewhe…

Tim Ryan is a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and the US Representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district. The views expressed are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN)Like many Americans, my family and I have spent our entire lives …

(Reuters) - U.S. immigration authorities on Friday said the government would limit which migrant children who enter the country alone qualify for special protections in the United States, the latest move by the Trump administration to tighten immigration rest…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption A file photo of the USS John S McCain, which is docked in Yokosuka in Japan The White House asked for a warship named after Donald Trump's late rival, Senator John McCain, to be obscured during the president's trip to Japan,…

TOKYO (Reuters) - President Donald Trump doubled down on his support for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s scathing view of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Monday, dismissing criticism that he was siding with a dictator over a fellow American. “Well…

President Trump's latest foreign flight to Japan was likely an unpleasant experience for the White House staffers flying with him. CNN's Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak spoke to five current and former officials who described such transatlantic voyages ab…