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Jill Biden’s Reaction to Biden’s 2024 Debate: ‘He’s Having a Stroke’

28 May 2026 at 06:00
“I had never, ever seen Joe like that,” the former first lady told CBS News. “Before or since.”

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Jill Biden, the first lady, and President Biden after the presidential debate in June 2024. She understood he had performed poorly but told him that they had been counted out before.

Thornton Wilder’s Last Play Vanished Into Thin Air. Or Did It?

27 May 2026 at 17:01
Decades after “The Emporium” failed to open on Broadway in 1954, one man went on a quest to find it.

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Thornton Wilder won three Pulitzer Prizes, including one for the classic drama “Our Town,” still among the most produced plays in the United States.
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