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President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump will be alone in the CNN studio, standing eight feet and an ideological world apart in the bright lights on Thursday.

But a host of advisers will be camped nearby inside green rooms that have been prepared for their teams, where the first lady, Jill Biden, is also expected to watch the high-stakes debate. Dr. Biden is expected to be the only Biden family member in attendance, according to people familiar with the plans who were not authorized to detail them.

It is not clear who, if anyone, from Mr. Trumps immediate family will attend in support of him. Mr. Trumps most politically active son, Donald Trump Jr., could not be there because of a previous family commitment with his oldest daughter, according to a person familiar with his plans.

But there will be at least one Trump family member there spinning for Mr. Biden.

Mary Trump, Mr. Trumps estranged niece, is among the half-dozen representatives that the Biden campaign is deploying to the spin room on Thursday.

We cannot afford to allow Donald Trump anywhere near the levers of power again, Ms. Trump said in a statement before the debate. Other Biden surrogates include Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas.

The debate will have two three-and-a-half minute commercial breaks, but neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Biden will be permitted to huddle with their nearby campaign teams during those interludes.

Mr. Biden flew to Atlanta on Thursday afternoon after a week sequestered at Camp David to rehearse, joined by political and government advisers. Mr. Trump was flying in from Florida with his team.

The Trump campaign did not respond to questions about who will be in the spin room on his behalf. But a number of high-profile campaign surrogates are set to attend a fund-raiser and watch party hosted by Kelly Loeffler, a former senator from Georgia. Among them are three people thought to be the top contenders for a running mate pick: Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.

Other Republicans who traveled to Atlanta and will attend the watch party are Representatives Byron Donalds of Florida and Wesley Hunt of Texas, who held an event on Wednesday night geared toward Black outreach in support of the Trump campaign; Ben Carson, who is another potential running mate contender and served as Mr. Trumps secretary of housing and urban development; and Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, the No. 4 House Republican, who has also been mentioned as a potential running mate.

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After skipping the Republican primary debates, Donald Trump will face off against Joe Biden in a one-on-one showdown Thursday evening on CNN.

While the Republican and Democratic conventions have not yet taken place, meaning both are technically the presumptive candidates of their parties, the debate will move the 2024 election into higher gear as voters get their first chance to compare the candidates, beyond the campaign rhetoric.

Got questions about the debate? Weve got answers.

The debate will be held Thursday June 27 at 9:00 p.m. ET.

CNN is hosting the debate and will simulcast it online.

The debate is scheduled to last 90 minutes.

Yes, easily. While CNN is hosting the debate, all four broadcast networks plan to carry it, as will PBS. Watching over the air requires an over-the-air antenna, though. And be sure to test the antenna in multiple locations in your home to find the most reliable signal.

If you dont have an antenna, CNN will stream the debate on CNN.com. (other networks are likely to carry the CNN stream on their site as well.)

Additionally, there are a number of online streaming options to choose from. These include:

The former HBO-Max, owned by CNNs parent company, will carry the debate live. Subscriptions start at $10 per month.

Disneys bundle of Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ no longer has a free trial, so youll have to pay $15 per month for all three combined (or $25 per month for no ads on Hulu).

Including Live TV in the bundle, which youll need to see the debate, bumps the price to $77 per month ($90 with no ads).

The free trial on this service is no longer offered, as well. It will now cost you $77 per month.

After up to a two-week trial, you can expect monthly charges of $73.

Dish Networks Sling lower-tiered Orange plan will run you $40 per month. Adding the more comprehensive Blue plan bumps the cost to $55 per month. The seven-day free trial has disappeared, but the cord-cutting service is offering 50% off of the first months bill.

Formerly known as DirecTV Now, AT&T TVNow and AT&T TV, this oft-renamed streaming service will run you $75 per month and up after the free trial option.

This sports-focused cord-cutting service carries broadcast networks in most markets. Theres a seven-day free trial, followed by monthly charges of $75 and up, depending on the channels you choose.

The independent candidate did not meet the debate threshold of polling at 15% or higher in four national surveys, so he was not asked to be a part of this debate.

Instead of being held in front of a live audience and being run by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), this debate is being done on terms set by the candidates. Among the rule changes are microphones will be muted unless a candidate is directed to speak; no prewritten notes or props will be allowed; and a coin toss will determine things like the order of closing statements and podium positions.

CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate.

ABC will host the next debate between the two candidates. Thats slated to take place in September.

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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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