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CHESAPEAKE Its been mostly business as usual in the days leading up to former President Donald Trumps expected appearance, but city officials say the event could bring thousands to the area and they anticipate road closures and heavy traffic Friday, and Sentara Healthcare announced some office closures Thursday.

Trump will hold a 3 p.m. campaign rally at the Historic Greenbrier Farms, just off the Chesapeake Expressway. Gates open at 11 a.m., according to the Trump campaign website.

Its not known how many people the farm can support for the event, but its website markets unlimited capacity for certain areas of the 500-acre farm, including estate grounds and natural spaces. A Chesapeake spokesperson said the city has heard anecdotally that the event could draw up to 10,000. However, its not known how many tickets will be offered.

The rally will be a day after the first presidential debate in Atlanta between Trump and President Joe Biden, hosted by CNN. Though Democrats have won Virginia in four consecutive presidential elections, eyes are on the Old Dominion as a key battleground state in November, with recent polls showing the two candidates neck-in-neck.

Glenn Youngkin is expected to be at the rally, marking the first time the Republican governor has stood alongside Trump in the campaign season. Youngkin was previously regarded as a presidential hopeful, but never threw his hat in the ring. The governor did not attend a Trump rally in Richmond ahead of Super Tuesday this year.

Social media reaction has been mixed, with some criticizing the farm for hosting the event and stating they would no longer support it. Others are voicing concerns with traffic in an area they say already struggles with congestion.

On behalf of Greenbrier Farms tenant Basnight Land & Lawn, Tori Basnight, who said she was a member of the family, declined to provide details on Tuesday about logistics and how the event was being organized. Additional attempts to reach her were unsuccessful.

But some neighboring business owners say theyre not expecting anything too out of the ordinary. Gray Livingston, owner of Pale Horse Coffee about 4 miles away on South Battlefield Boulevard, said he doesnt expect much additional patronage since the event will be right off the Chesapeake Expressway.

Fridays are usually busy at the coffee shop, so extra staff will be on standby, Livingston said, especially if Trump decides to stop by for a cup of coffee, he joked. Livingston added that he plans to attend the event and noted that hes allowed political events from both sides of the aisle to use his space before.

Next door, Serene Massage co-owner Jeanne Shepard said shes encouraged by the extra traffic, so her business is taking advantage by placing additional signs outside for greater visibility to those driving past.

Hassan Hajama, owner of Lilys Crepes 5 miles away at the Glenwood Shopping Center, said he hopes to be busier than normal. He said the restaurant is accustomed to seeing increased patronage during local car show events, so theyre prepared to handle the additional traffic.

As one moves off the expressway, the roads leading to the farm turn into two-lane, winding highways in an area surrounded mostly by vast swaths of land and large subdivisions. As of Tuesday, signs are already posted specifying local traffic only on the roads leading to the event Friday.

Though its not a city-sponsored event, a Chesapeake spokesperson said staff is working with the U.S. Secret Service to assist with security and public safety, but primarily traffic control. Chesapeake officials urge residents to prepare for heavy traffic congestion Friday and certain road closures. Beginning at 8 a.m., Sign Pine Road will be open to local traffic only and remain closed until the event is over. Drivers should expect intermittent closures throughout the day along the Chesapeake Expressway and Interstate 64.

Chesapeakes public safety force police, fire, sheriff and EMS will be on-site.

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Three Sentara offices in Chesapeake will be closed Thursday because of former President Donald Trumps scheduled visit, according to a news release.

Multiple road closures and expected traffic delays led the health care system to close Sentara Family Medicine & Pediatrics and the Sentara Therapy Center at Sentara Edinburgh, as well as Sentara Edinburgh Diagnostic Center.

The offices notified patients with scheduled appointments, and their appointments have either been changed to virtual care or rescheduled, the release said. Walk-in lab and imaging care are available at the Advanced Imaging Center at Sentara BelleHarbour in Suffolk.

Sentara encourages patients at its other Chesapeake locations to plan for extra travel time, and to contact their providers offices with any questions.

Katrina Dix contributed to this report.

Natalie Anderson, 757-732-1133, natalie.anderson@virginiamedia.com

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Every year since 1993, the Toronto Blue Jays have failed to win the World Series. Theyve gotten closean AL East Division title in 2015, and four wild-card berths. As a frequent Jays bandwagoner, I often think about Jos Bautistas 2015 bat flip, which to this day gives me the most pleasing stomachache. Still, I wouldnt talk to the Blue Jays if I were trying to get a better sense of how to win an important baseball game. Thats just not what theyre known for! Winning is simply not within their area of expertise.

This is also how I feel every time I see Hillary Clinton weigh in on the upcoming presidential election. She lost a similar race of her own almost eight years ago but is still, somewhat inexplicably, considered a politician with unique insight into our political moment. Earlier this week, the New York Times published an op-ed by Clinton, detailing her own experiences debating both Donald Trump and Joe Biden and offering guidance to viewers on how to watch this weeks debate. I am the only person to have debated both men, she wrote. I know the excruciating pressure of walking onto that stage and that it is nearly impossible to focus on substance when Mr. Trump is involved. This is, technically, a factual statementno one else has had to debate both the current president and the former president as she has. I have no doubt it will be challenging to suss out whatever minimal substance is available on Thursday night. But more urgently: Why am I reading this?

Since she lost the election in 2016, Clinton has made it a chief tenet of her public personality that she was right about Trump all along. In 2019 she said that losing the election was like applying for a job and getting 66 million letters of recommendation and losing to a corrupt human tornado. After his second indictment in 2023, she posted a photo of herself in a But Her Emails hat, a limited-edition item that you can still buy for $32 if for some reason you want to give a multimillionaire more money. After Trump was found guilty of hush money payments, she posted a photo of a mug for sale, with her outline and the words Turns out she was right about everything. Clinton was right about a few things, but the things she was wrong about were pretty damn significant too. Jos Bautista popped that baseball clean over the wall and gave long-suffering Jays fans an incredible home run; the Blue Jays still dont know how to win a World Series.

For almost a decade now, Clinton has been determined to rewrite herself back into the political narrative as a woman who was uniquely right for the jobbut who got screwed over by an unprecedented candidate and a sexist public. Shes not wrong there: Trump is unlike any other political candidate in American history, and her womanhood proved tricky for even Clinton to manage. Her efforts to satisfy a ravening press and public intolerant of female complexity left her so twisted and poll-tested that she became largely illegible as human, let alone female, Rebecca Traister wrote of Clinton in New York magazine earlier this month.

But its not as if Clinton has evolvedor attempted some novel approach to reaching the publicafter her mortifying, loud, public loss to Trump. In fact, she and plenty of other old-guard members of the Democratic Party seem positively horny about trying to keep things running the same way they did in the 1990s. In her Times piece, Clinton asks for a return to form, a time when political theater was performed with dignity (calling Black teenagers super-predators, I guess), as opposed to Trumps version of theater (mocking journalists, being a felon, threatening to take his shirt off, defaming E. Jean Carroll over and over again). As viewers, we should try not to get hung up on the theatrics, Clinton writes, but what are the debates if not theatrics? Clinton is presently stuck in the theatrics of bragging about how right she was that Trump would fundamentally reshape the United States. Fine! You were right! You lost the election and you were right. Now what, girly pop??

If you read her story without having lived through 2016, or without having seen the famous 2016 TrumpClinton debate itselfthe one where Trump followed Clinton around the stage like a vulture waiting for her to die so he could eat her meaty little eyeballsit almost sounds as if she won. Maybe she did win the debate. But the election? The election she lost? The election she lost because she assumed that no reasonable person could vote for a morally repugnant nonpolitician promising to upend the status quoso much so that she didnt campaign in Wisconsin and became the first Democratic presidential nominee to lose the state since 1984? Well, thats a lot harder to fit on a $22 coffee mug ($7.66 for shipping? How about you Pokemon Go fuck off!).

Clinton hasnt been clued in to what progressives have been shouting about, loudly, for some time: The same old shit is not winning hearts and minds. It barely did before, when the Democratic Party was operating mostly as a nervous, conflict-averse centrist counterweight to the (unbearably effective and terrifyingly maniacal) bombast of the Republicans. And now that large swaths of potential Democratic voters are completely alienated by the presidents stance on Israels war in Gaza, Clinton is back to her same old tricksblaming the people for just not getting it. Of pro-Palestinian protesters, for example, Clinton said that they dont know very much about history. Thats our fault, she added. The information they get, more often than not, is off of social media. Of course! Social media is only for hawking expensive merchandise and for running your mouth about how you were right about Donald Trump.

Clinton is still living in a world where Teen Vogue might write an article applauding heror, more accurately, her 25-year-old social media managerfor clapping back at Trump. You thought my lede to this story was meandering? Well, Clinton spends an entire paragraph of her New York Times op-ed talking about a Broadway musical she co-produced and also about Hamilton. No one else is quite as stuck in 2016, determined to try to reset the world into a kind of order she understands.

What Clinton wants, in all these attempts to give advice and guidance on how to make sense of a competition similar to the one she historically lost, is to return to a world order that flatters her ego and that of so many other high-ranking Democrats. Life was sweeter when she had a better chance of winning merely by virtue of being viewed as the least worst choice. This election is between a convicted criminal out for revenge and a president who delivers results for the American people, she writes, but thats just not true when it comes to the optics of this race. Its an election between a convicted criminal and a president who has not been able to protect abortion rights, has not pushed to reform the Supreme Court, has sent $1 billion in arms and ammunitions to Israel without any conditions, and has pursued a handful of policy moveson immigration and oil production in particularthat were essentially promised by Trump as well.

Everyone from staunch old-world Democrats to socialist progressives knows that Trump is a bad choice for president; we knew it back in 2016 too, even if we didnt yet appreciate how possible (or inevitable) his election indeed was. When Clinton reminds us that she was right, she would like us to forget the most salient part: She didnt make it across the finish line. She wants the kind of victory that comes only with the benefit of hindsight, mostly her own. If I lost so publicly, so colossally, to such an internationally detrimental effect, I wouldnt lecture people about the stakes of the upcoming election so freely. But whats that old expression? Those who cant do teach? It sure seems, right now, that Clinton cant teach us that much at all.

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Up First briefing: Biden-Trump debate; how your brain removes toxins Biden and Trump will hold their first presidential debate tonight. Scientists think understanding how the brain removes waste and toxins may help treat a broad range of disorders.

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President Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off tonight in Atlanta in their first debate of the 2024 campaign for the White House. The candidates are expected to discuss an array of issues, including inflation, immigration, abortion and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

For analysis, context and color during the CNN presidential debate, head to our liveblog starting at 5 p.m. ET at NPR.org. You can also tune into the debate at 9 p.m. ET on NPR stream it on many public radio stations, listen on the NPR app or on NPR.org.

The White House and federal agencies can urge social media platforms to remove content they consider misinformation, The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The ruling is a major victory to the Biden administration.

A chaotic scene unfolded in Bolivia yesterday as president Luis Arce appears to have staved off an attempt to topple his government. Soldiers filled the main plaza in La Paz and an armored vehicle breached a government palace, before withdrawing in what officials warned was a coup attempt by elements of the military. Arce vowed to stand firm and named a new army commander who ordered troops to stand down. The Bolivian general who appeared to be behind the rebellion, Juan Jos Ziga, was arrested after the attorney general opened an investigation and said more arrests are likely.

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Your brain makes a lot of waste, and scientists now think they know where it goes. Two research teams published insights about the brain's waste-removal system and the findings could help better understand, treat and perhaps prevent various brain disorders. Here are some of the takeaways:

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Heading into the first debate of the 2024 presidential campaign some four months before Election Day, Donald Trump is viewed more positively than President Joe Biden across a range of measures, though neither candidate has a favorable image overall. Part of Trumps advantage stems from the much more positive reviews the former president receives from his own party faithful than Biden receives from his.

These findings are from a June 3-23 Gallup poll that began several days after Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York.

The poll finds that about twice as many Republicans are pleased with Trump being the GOP nominee as Democrats are with Biden leading their partys ticket.

Overall, less than half of Americans view either candidate favorably, think either has the personality and leadership qualities a president should have, and say they agree with either on the issues that are most important to them.

While Biden and Trump -- the two oldest major party candidates to seek the U.S. presidency -- are separated by just three years in age, Americans perceive Bidens advanced age as a far greater liability. Biden is also viewed as too liberal by a majority of Americans, whereas public opinion of Trumps ideology is mixed.

Republicans (79%) are nearly twice as likely as Democrats (42%) to say they are pleased with their partys nominee. A majority of Democrats (56%) would prefer another candidate.

In the summer of 2020, when Trump and Biden first ran against each other, Republicans views of Trump were similar to how they are now. Democrats were more positive about Biden four years ago, with 56% satisfied, though they were still far less positive about him than Republicans were about Trump.

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Gallup has not regularly tracked this sentiment, but several readings provide some context for the latest findings. After Hillary Clinton secured the nomination at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, 64% of Democrats said they were pleased she was their candidate. In a similar question that asked if partisans were satisfied (rather than pleased) with their partys nominee in 2012, 84% of Democrats were satisfied with Barack Obama, who was running as an incumbent.

On the Republican side, 45% of Republicans were pleased with Trump in 2016 after the GOP convention, and 66%were satisfied with Mitt Romney when he became their party's presumptive nominee in 2012.

Both Biden and Trump are viewed unfavorably by majorities of Americans, but Trumps favorability shows improvement, while Bidens has worsened. Trumps favorable rating (46%) has increased by four percentage points since the prior reading in December and is the highest for him since April 2020. At the same time, Bidens favorable rating has dipped by the same four-point margin to 37%, his lowest since 2007, when he was unknown to many Americans.

Leading up to the 2020 election, Bidens and Trumps favorable ratings were no more than four points apart, and more recently, in two 2023 readings, the ratings of the two men were tied. Similarly, in May, Gallups scalometer measure found Biden and Trump tied in favorability.

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is viewed favorably by 38% of Americans, which is 14 points lower than his prior rating in December. Kennedys favorability dropped the most among Democrats (-26 points) and independents (-13 points) and the least among Republicans (-7 points).

Republicans offer a more positive assessment of their partys candidate than Democrats do -- 91% of Republicans view Trump favorably, and 81% of Democrats view Biden favorably. Independents view Trump and Kennedy more favorably than Biden.

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Less than half of Americans view Biden or Trump as having the personality and leadership qualities a president needs. The 46% of U.S. adults who think Trump possesses these traits includes 87% of Republicans, 43% of independents and 10% of Democrats.

Fewer Americans, 38%, think Biden possesses such personality and leadership qualities. Eighty-one percent of Democrats, 35% of independents and 4% of Republicans believe Biden embodies these characteristics.

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In October 2019, as Trump sought reelection, 38% of Americans said he had the personality and leadership qualities a president needs. At that time, the public was evenly divided over whether Biden possessed these traits, with 49% saying he did.

Americans are evenly divided over whether they agree or disagree with Trump on the issues that matter most to them, with 49% taking each position. When it comes to their agreement with Bidens stances on the issues they value most, 37% of U.S. adults say they agree with him, while 61% disagree.

More than nine in 10 Republicans, 93%, agree with Trump on key issues, while 81% of Democrats say the same of Biden. Independents are more aligned with Trump (46%) than Biden (34%) on issues.

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At 81, Biden is three years older than Trump, who turned 78 this month. Despite their similar ages, Americans are nearly twice as likely to say Biden is too old to be president (67%) as say this about Trump (37%). These results are in line with prior Gallup polling showing that 31% of Americans are willing to vote for a presidential candidate over age 80 and 63% are willing to vote for a candidate over age 70.

Half of respondents polled in the June survey were asked whether each candidate is too old to be president; the other half of respondents were asked if they are concerned that each candidate is too old to be president. The results are similar, with 59% very concerned about Bidens age versus 18% about Trumps. When factoring in those who are somewhat concerned, a combined 76% are concerned Biden is too old for the job, while 38% are concerned about Trump.

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Bidens age is not just a potential liability among Republicans and independents -- majorities of whom say he is too old and are very concerned about it -- but also among a sizable minority of Democrats. Forty-four percent of Democrats say Biden is too old, and 31% are very worried about it.

Prior to Trump (age 70 in 2017) and Biden (age 78 in 2021), the oldest president had been Ronald Reagan, who was 69 at the start of his presidency in 1981 and 77 when he left office in 1989.

When asked to characterize the candidates political ideology, Americans largely say Biden is too liberal. Fifty-six percent see him this way, three in 10 say his views are about right, and 9% consider him too conservative.

By contrast, a 44% plurality of Americans think Trump is too conservative, 38% say his views are about right, and 10% say he is too liberal.

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This is the first time Gallup has measured public perceptions of Bidens ideology, but the second for Trump. The first was measured in 2019, about halfway through Trumps presidency. At that time, the public was evenly divided between seeing him as too conservative (39%) and about right (38%), while 17% thought he was too liberal.

Most partisans say their presidential candidates views are about right, but more Republicans feel this way about Trump (78%) than Democrats do about Biden (69%).

Political independents are also more likely to characterize Trumps politics as about right than Bidens, at 34% and 25%, respectively. The majority of independents (56%) think Biden is too liberal, while 43% say Trump is too conservative.

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With both candidates well-known to Americans, the stakes are high ahead of the first presidential debate of 2024, as Biden and Trump both have to overcome significant obstacles with the public. Biden appears to be at a bigger disadvantage ahead of the debate as his approval rating has been stagnating at a historically weak 38% and his favorable rating has now fallen to the same level.

Americans believe they are less aligned with Biden than Trump on the issues they view as most important and on their political ideology. Although the candidates are close in age, Bidens age is more of a barrier for voters than Trumps, and the debate will be a key moment for him to prove to a large national audience that he is up to the job of being president at an advanced age.

Although Republicans are more united in their positivity about Trump than Democrats are about Biden, this may be partly due to the timing of the latest poll, which came on the heels of Trumps felony convictions and could have served to rally his supporters. Meanwhile, the campaign trail has not been kind to Kennedy, whose favorable rating has tumbled over the past six months, particularly among Democrats and independents. Kennedy did not qualify for the debate.

The race is far from over, with more than four months remaining until Election Day -- including the debates and both parties national nominating conventions, which have the potential to shift Americans views.

To stay up to date with the latest Gallup News insights and updates, follow us on X @Gallup.

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Donald Trump issued an angry and confrontational Fathers Day message Sunday, using the occasion to lash out at his enemies and issue a hyperbolic plea for votes in Novembers presidential election.

The former president, 78, hit a familiar note in the all-caps missive, writing on Truth Social: HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE RADICAL LEFT DEGENERATES THAT ARE RAPIDLY BRINGING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTO THIRD WORLD NATION STATUS WITH THEIR MANY ATTEMPTS AT TRYING TO INFLUENCE OUR SACRED COURT SYSTEM INTO BREAKING TO THEIR VERY SICK AND DANGEROUS WILL.

WE NEED STRENGTH AND LOYALTY TO OUR COUNTRY, AND ITS WONDERFUL CONSTITUTION, he added.

EVERYTHING WILL BE ON FULL DISPLAY COME NOVEMBER 5TH, 2024, he wrote. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

Fathers Day comes just days after Trumps 78th birthday, which he celebrated at a quasi-campaign rally at the Palm Beach Country Club. His entire nuclear family issued him glowing praise over the weekendexcept for his wife, Melania Trump, who was noticeably silent, at least publicly.

Trump did not mention any of his five children during his Fathers Day rant, nor did he write about his feelings for his own family. He did, however, mark the day by nodding to the neck-and-neck election currently unfoldingcalling Nov. 5 the most important day in the history of our country.

The former president spent much of Sunday on the outskirts of Detroit, where he visited a historically Black church which was conspicuously filled with white worshippers.

One reporter present for Trumps speech said he used much of his roundtable time to tell the crowd about his commitment to opposing LGBTQ causes.

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