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Just minutes after President Joe Biden’s so-called “big boy press conference” ended on Thursday night, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee called for him to step aside and allow another presidential nominee to take his place, presaging a potential flood of Democrats expected to similarly break ranks over the next few days.

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Two predictions. One, that this coming Halloween, theater fans will be hunting for perfect replicas of the dress designed by Holly Pierson that Cole Escola wears as Mary Todd Lincoln in the insanely fun Broadway play Oh, Mary!—a bustling, funereal-black hoop skirt. A vital accessory to ape is their wig of scythe-sharp center parting and ringleted curls, designed by Leah J. Loukas.

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Luxury real estate agent Tal Alexander—who, along with his brothers Oren and Alon, is facing sexual assault claims and an FBI probe—claimed Thursday that a rape accusation leveled against him is nothing more than a shakedown.

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Black members of Congress with whom President Joe Biden has worked hard to forge a relationship say there will be trouble if either Biden or Kamala Harris don’t stay on the Democratic presidential ticket, with one warning of a “Blacklash.”

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If he loses to Donald Trump in November, President Joe Biden will see much of his legacy—on green energy, social justice, international leadership—vanquished by an administration determined to move the country sharply rightward. But his onetime boss, Barack Obama, will also see his own right years in office cast in a different light: democracy’s last gasp, as opposed to democracy’s renewal.

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Donald Trump is going to great lengths on the campaign trail to distance himself from Project 2025, the controversial blueprint for his second administration—but he can’t seem to outrun his past praise for the people behind it, or their past claims that he is fully on board with their plans.

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), a staunch loyalist of President Joe Biden, took shots at Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday after she suggested on the MSNBC program Morning Joe that Biden’s position on the ticket was not yet a done deal.

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A live round of ammo was discovered in the bullet belt of actor Jensen Ackles after his co-star Alec Baldwin’s prop gun misfired on the set of Rust, according to an investigator who testified at Baldwin’s manslaughter trial on Thursday.