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WALLS CLOSING IN
Hunkered down at home, Biden spent his miserable final days as the presumptive nominee growing increasingly bitter and isolated.
Nico Hines covered U.S. politics in Washington, D.C. for The Times of London and was London Bureau Chief for Newsweek before becoming The Daily Beast World Editor. As a foreign correspondent he has reported from NATO’s front line with Russia in the Arctic Circle, camped out with the families of trapped Chilean miners in the Atacama desert, and chased down terror suspects in Sydney. He’s a regular guest on The World This Week on the France 24 global news network.
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FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
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‘BAD F***ING WEEK’
A House Democrat says a high-powered group of “super friends” is being assembled to head to the White House and tell Biden it’s time to go.
END THE ‘OMERTA’ NOW
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NEW RULE BRITANNIA
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HE’S FINALLY DONE IT
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GET IN LINE
Republicans competing in the veepstakes or looking for favor among the MAGA crowd are racing to the courtroom in Manhattan.
GIRL POWER
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‘HAVE A GOOD LAUGH’
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