U.S. Politics

Here is the party’s process for naming a candidate between now and Election Day, whether it is President Biden or someone else.

‘It’s a catastrophe,’ said the senator from Vermont, becoming the first Democrat from that chamber to publicly say the president should step aside.

A president who long delighted in public speech is now sometimes hard to understand. Does it matter?

A defiant and angry president says he is not going anywhere. Some Democrats are trying to appeal to another side of the politician, who has been a realist about his political fortunes before.

The vice president told a crowd of roughly 20,000 in Dallas that former President Donald J. Trump had said he would terminate the Constitution in a second term.

The statement was a major departure for the alliance, which until 2019 never officially mentioned China as a concern.

If the judge follows through, it would allow creditors to pursue foreclosures, repossessions and lawsuits that have been on hold as Rudolph Giuliani sought the protection of bankruptcy law.

Impeachment has no realistic chance of advancing in the Republican-controlled House, but it speaks to a motivating issue for Democrats: the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority.

After largely disappearing from view to let Democratic infighting play out, Donald Trump held a rally that was at times boastful and mercilessly cruel.

The Arkansas secretary of state said that the group collecting signatures to put an abortion-rights amendment on the ballot had failed to submit some of the necessary paperwork.

The dam has mostly held on Capitol Hill for President Biden, but cracks continued to open as more donors and elected officials publicly called on President Biden to drop out.

The interview will air in prime-time on NBC on Monday, the first night of the Republican National Convention.

Donald J. Trump has not generally offered explicit evaluations of his top contenders, but he acknowledged on Wednesday that Doug Burgum’s abortion ban and Marco Rubio’s Florida residency complicate his choice.

Representative Elissa Slotkin, the leading Democrat seeking her state’s open Senate seat, said private polling showed former President Donald J. Trump leading President Biden.

Only four seats separate Democrats from the House majority, making the chamber a potential bulwark against complete Republican control. But gaining even a handful of seats will be difficult.

President Biden is pushing back against those who say he is not up to the job.

The specter of a second Donald J. Trump presidency injects new urgency into the NATO summit this week. President Biden and other leaders agree Ukraine should have an “irreversible” path to membership.

Mr. Clooney, who co-hosted a lavish fund-raiser for President Biden last month, wrote in a guest essay in The New York Times that Democrats “are not going to win in November with this president.”

The ABC anchor, in a surreptitious recording, said, “I don’t think he can serve four more years.”

Representative Nancy Pelosi, a longtime Biden ally and the former speaker, is the most senior member of his party so far to suggest his status at the top of the ticket is uncertain.

Bennet of Colorado expressed more serious concern about President Biden’s campaign than any Senate Democrat has so far, saying that he was on track to lose and that it was up to Democrats to change that.

The measure aims to close a loophole that officials said allowed metals made partly in China to come into the United States duty free.

President Donald J. Trump’s residence and private club has become an oasis for the MAGA wing of the Republican party, according to a Times analysis — and its transformation has been tremendously profitable for Mr. Trump.

The race against Trump doesn’t seem as if it will get easier.

Donald J. Trump’s monthslong search for a running mate, orchestrated to feed speculation and attention, is nearing an end, but questions of who, and when, remain.

Time is on President Biden’s side. Every day that he defies pressure to end his re-election campaign, replacing him becomes harder for Democrats.

Amos Hochstein, an energy policy official who was born in Israel, is playing diplomatic firefighter along the Israel-Lebanon border.

“America doesn’t shy away from its friends,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in a speech in Washington as leaders gathered in the city for a NATO summit.

Speaking to nearly 200 Democratic mayors, the president again acknowledged he had a poor first debate and took softball questions about his campaign and second-term agenda.

The marshal was sitting in an unmarked federal vehicle near the Supreme Court justice’s home when a man approached the vehicle and pointed a handgun at him through the driver’s side window.