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To a casual observer, the quintet might seem like the prototype girl band: Coiffed, choreographed and bristling with confidence.

The musicians cranked up the amplifiers, and Stills sang a verse of Young’s bristling standard, which landed Saturday like an angrier follow-up to the Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth.”

The city’s beaches lay deserted, with the one hotel still open already booked to capacity by journalists and its patio bristling with cameras trained at the Israeli border.

Underneath his ever-present smirk, Vance seems to be bristling with barely contained rage, especially at anyone who would question the Trump campaign's use of tactics like overt lying and spreading unapologetically racist conspiracy theories.

Chinese EV makers including BYD are planning to build factories in Mexico, which would allow them to circumvent the Biden tariff even if the Mexican-made vehicles are bristling with Chinese parts.