The Republican National Committee’s platform committee has adopted a policy document that reflects former President Donald Trump’s position. The platform opposes a federal abortion ban and ceding limits to states, omitting a national ban for the first time in 40 years. That's according to two people briefed on the matter. The new platform language relies on the Constitution's 14th Amendment to say that states are “free to pass laws” concerning abortion. Trump has long argued the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade should leave states free to pass bans on their own without a federal abortion restriction.

President Joe Biden has urged his supporters to stay unified during a series of Sunday stops in critical Pennsylvania. His calls came Sunday, even as some leading congressional Democrats privately suggested  it was time for him to abandon his reelection bid amid intensifying questions about whether he’s fit for another term. “I, honest to God, have never been more optimistic about America’s future if we stick together,”  he said. As Congress prepares to resume this week, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries convened top committee lawmakers Sunday afternoon to assess their views. Several Democratic committee leaders said Biden should step aside.

A visitor to Death Valley National Park died Sunday from heat exposure and another person was hospitalized as the temperature reached 128 degrees. Officials say the two visitors were part of a group of six motorcyclists riding through the Badwater Basin area amid scorching weather. The person who died was not identified. The park said in a statement that other motorcyclist was transported to a hospital in Las Vegas for “severe heat illness.” A long-running heat wave has shattered previous records across the U.S. and baked parts of the West with dangerous temperatures. An excessive heat warning — the National Weather Service’s highest alert — was in effect for about 36 million people.