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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.

Republicans are seeking information about a venture that Dr. Kevin O’Connor discussed with James Biden before the president was elected.

The senators said the Supreme Court justice’s failure to disclose lavish gifts and luxury travel showed a “willful pattern of disregard for ethics laws.”

The president has yet to do what many Democrats said he must to show he is up to remaining in the race. But so far, they have thrown up their hands, doing nothing to nudge him aside.

President Biden welcomed NATO allies to a summit in Washington with a speech highlighting the alliance’s history and its unity in modern times.

Inside the MSNBC safe space that President Biden turned to this week.

The sailor searched the name “Joseph Biden” in a government database three times in late February, according to the Navy.

Lawmakers in the House and Senate met privately to hash out their concerns about President Biden’s viability, but leaders emerged from two separate meetings pledging allegiance to their candidate.

Jennifer O’Malley Dillon is driving the president’s campaign forward as he fends off Democratic critics. “She doesn’t have any doubt,” said Ron Klain, the former White House chief of staff.

The relationship between Ms. Haley, who was United Nations ambassador under Mr. Trump, and the former president soured toward the end of the primary campaign.

The president’s weakness with younger voters is evident in the survey, as is former President Donald J. Trump’s benefiting from positive views of his White House term.

Donald Trump stayed out of the spotlight as President Biden was besieged by Democratic doubts, but he returned to the trail Tuesday to revel in the chaos with an insult- and falsehood-laden speech.

The Michigan governor will not talk about running for president. But her new book, “True Gretch,” is full of details keeping the chatter alive.

An Oklahoma Republican who led the Environment Committee, he took hard-right stands on many issues but was especially vocal in challenging evidence of global warming.

The California governor is holding firm as a fierce defender of the president on the 2024 trail. Left unspoken are his own White House ambitions.

All eyes are on President Biden, but looming over the meeting is the possibility that Vladimir Putin might pull a stunt to disrupt the gathering.

Leaders of the Democratic Party’s most loyal voting bloc have expressed frustration with the calls for President Biden to step aside, mindful of undermining Vice President Kamala Harris.

Her continued support gives President Biden the backing of an influential member of the party’s progressive wing.

The president is still seeking money from wealthy contributors even as he casts them as part of an unelected political elite trying to subvert the will of voters.

If Kamala Harris took his place, she could easily tap into their campaign’s cash. Someone like Gretchen Whitmer or Gavin Newsom? It would get trickier.

The vice president has made certain to demonstrate complete loyalty to President Biden.