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Philippe Reines, the longtime aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is reprising his role as former President Trump while Vice President Harris prepares to spar with her Republican rival on the debate stage Tuesday. Reines, a 54-year-old New York City native, previously played Trump as Clinton prepared to face him in the 2016 debate cycle. A Columbia University grad and political consultant, Reines spent nearly two decades at Clinton’s side and has been a loyal confidant of the former Democratic presidential candidate. In the years since Clinton lost to Trump, he’s occasionally reflected on the process of channeling...

Memorial Day Weekend Silliness Thread

Ditched bride gets hitched after finding late stand-in A bride-to-be ditched four days before her wedding found another groom in time and married him instead. Alison Innes, 20, from Arbroath, Scotland, was eight months pregnant when her fiance Peter Knight, 28, texted her to tell her he had got cold feet. But the ceremony went ahead almost as planned on February 20 after her ex-boyfriend Daniel Innes, 18, stepped in to take Mr Knight's place. This is not the first time true love has gone off its course for Mrs Innes. Last year she hit the headlines when her mother,...

BERLIN, Sept 26 (AFP) - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has at least three doubles who stand in for him at official events and has not appeared in public personally since 1998, German public television channel ZDF reported Thursday. ZDF said in a summary of a report to be broadcast later Thursday that research by a German medical expert had shown that the Iraqi leader had avoided all public functions for the last four years. Instead, he had replaced at them by people who bear a striking physical resemblance to him. Saddam also skips meetings of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command...