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The vice president released an ad called “Fearless” that focuses on her time as a prosecutor, while a spot from the former president attacked her as soft on immigration.

By Reid J. Epstein and Nicholas Nehamas

The spot, running on television in six battleground states, reflects an effort by the former president to center immigration that predates Kamala Harris’s rise to the top of the Democratic ticket.

By Shane Goldmacher and Michael Gold

Before Kari Lake can take on Representative Ruben Gallego for a Senate seat, she must win her Republican race. And two House races set up by the primaries will be hotly contested in the fall.

By Kellen Browning

The vice president is narrowing her choices. How do the top contenders match up on political skills that matter most?

By Katie Glueck

Two Chinese athletes, one of whom was named to the Olympic team in Paris, tested positive in 2022 for a banned steroid. China blamed contaminated food, as it had after previous positive tests.

By Tariq Panja and Michael S. Schmidt

A video call with 60,000 self-professed “White Dudes for Harris” showed the breadth of Democratic support for her candidacy, and the ways the party is learning to make fun of itself.

By Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Ken Bensinger

The horse, a 10-year-old stallion named Bullwinkle, was one of only 200 Banker horses, a breed on the Outer Banks in North Carolina that descended from horses brought over by Spanish explorers.

By Alexandra E. Petri

Hundreds of Vietnamese civilians died at the hands of American soldiers, but Lieutenant Calley was the only one found guilty.

By Robert D. McFadden

After months of roaring around the city in a souped-up Dodge Charger, drawing furious complaints and unpaid fines, Miles Hudson was led out of court on Monday in handcuffs.

By Mike Baker

The fire, which has been burning since last Wednesday, is already one of the largest in the state’s history.

By The New York Times

JD Vance has long spoken about his concerns about the falling birthrate — and it’s not just him.

By Jess Bidgood

Mr. Cooper, the governor of North Carolina, had been seen as one of the half-dozen top candidates to join the Democratic presidential ticket.

By Shane Goldmacher and Reid J. Epstein

“These guys are just weird,” Gov. Tim Walz, a former schoolteacher, has said of the opposition.

By Ernesto Londoño

If President Biden’s proposed 18-year term limit had been in place during the most recent four administrations, the court’s 6-to-3 conservative split would be reversed.

By Elena Shao

View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.

By William B. Davis, Madison Dong, Judson Jones, Bea Malsky and John Keefe

House leaders picked 13 lawmakers with background in national security and law enforcement, including a Republican who trafficked in conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

By Luke Broadwater

Mark Lamb, a right-wing immigration hard-liner, once might have been the archetypal Republican Senate candidate in the border state. But he’s the underdog in Tuesday’s primary.

By Kellen Browning

The presidential candidates have offered few ideas for reducing the debt burden as red ink continues to mount.

By Alan Rappeport

The authorities said five people traveled from Jacksonville to Tampa to “locate and kill” the rapper known as Julio Foolio. Three of them are in custody on murder charges.

By Christine Hauser

Investigators said a 17-year-old charged with intentionally causing a freight train derailment in Nebraska had recorded the crash, which he then posted on YouTube.

By Amanda Holpuch and Hank Sanders

An anonymous group of junior staff members has modeled its effort on an internal State Department messaging system, hoping to create an outlet for calls for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza.

By Maya C. Miller

She ran to the left as progressive ideas dominated the last competitive Democratic primary. Now, in a tough general election, Republicans are digging up her old stances.

By Reid J. Epstein

The bureau also provided the most comprehensive portrait to date of the gunman, revealing that he had carefully concealed more than two dozen online purchases of weapons and explosives using aliases.

By Glenn Thrush

Flash floods rushed through portions of the park on Sunday. Dollywood was expected to reopen on Monday.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

In a speech in Austin, Texas, the president outlined a proposal that included term limits and an enforceable ethics code for the justices but that faces long odds in a divided Congress.

By Katie Rogers

Democrats could formally make Kamala Harris their nominee this week, as she narrows her running mate choices and attacks her rivals, Donald Trump and JD Vance, while they hit the trail.

By Kellen Browning and Maggie Astor

Many who fled the fire in California have been anxiously waiting to hear whether their houses are still standing. Others are grappling with news of homes and barns leveled by flames.

By Almendra Lawrence and Eduardo Medina

Critics say the immunity ruling is flawed for reasons similar to those the court gave for overturning Roe, which had established a right to abortion.

By Adam Liptak

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled last month that the Republican-backed law could be enforced. Abortions had been legal in the state up until about 22 weeks.

By Mitch Smith

Native American tribes say the casinos are part of their right to self-determination. But state officials fear they could siphon revenues from the Oregon Lottery.

By David W. Chen and Jordan Gale

Two of the men met through a neo-Nazi online forum and recruited other people to join their scheme, which was rooted in white supremacist ideology, prosecutors said.

By Sara Ruberg

When Donald J. Trump tries to win over a crowd that is not inherently his own, the results can be awkward.

By Shawn McCreesh

Text messages, obtained exclusively by The Times, indicate that some law enforcement officers were aware of Thomas Crooks earlier than previously known. And he was aware of them.

By Haley Willis, Aric Toler, David A. Fahrenthold and Adam Goldman

The one-week total is more than President Biden’s haul in the first quarter of the year. About two-thirds came from first-time donors, according to the vice president’s campaign.

By Maggie Astor

The fire, the largest active blaze in the United States, was 12 percent contained on Sunday afternoon. Fire activity was on the rise, according to officials.

By Isabelle Taft and Kate Selig

The vice president is considering several men who also served as state attorneys general. Those relationships could inform her crucial decision in the days ahead.

By Katie Glueck

Some Asian American leaders are rooting for Kamala Harris to become the first Asian American president. But she is not widely known as Asian American, reflecting the complexity of the identity.

By Amy Qin

With Patriot Party News, Michael Chesebro found a sense of community, and a place where conspiracy theories could become real in the form of the “medbed.”

By Eli Saslow

Timothy Mellon, a reclusive heir to a storied fortune, is spending tens of millions to elect Donald J. Trump. Precisely what he wants in return is one of many curiosities surrounding him.

By Alexandra Berzon and Mike McIntire

A growing cohort of young farmers is experimenting with ways to mitigate the impact of flooding and other extreme weather.

By Jenna Russell