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The Tesla chief executive’s polarizing statements have alienated some potential customers and may be partly responsible for a recent slump in sales.

The campaign, in a release weeks before the federal filing deadline, said it had raised $127 million in June together with the Democratic Party.

Confronting steep debts and some layoffs, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign is increasingly consumed by the battle for ballot access, with his allies quietly putting money into a new legal fund.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island said he was “horrified" by the debate. Representative Debbie Dingell said “the campaign needs to listen to us.”

Beyond Donald J. Trump, the decision adds to the seemingly one-way ratchet of executive authority.

President Biden spoke after the Supreme Court’s ruling that former President Donald J. Trump is entitled to substantial immunity from prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election.

During the most challenging period of President Biden’s re-election bid, the first lady appears on the cover of a high-fashion bible.

A post that Mr. Trump circulated on Sunday called for Liz Cheney to be prosecuted by a military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals.

Some surveys indicate a slight dip for President Biden, but too few have been released to provide a sharp picture of the post-debate national mood.

In his concurrence to the immunity decision, the justice questioned whether there was a legal basis for naming the special counsel — a topic also being explored by the judge in the documents case.

Officials said there was no specific intelligence about possible Russian attacks on American bases, but Moscow has made vague threats over Ukraine’s use of long-range weapons on its territory.

The former New York mayor and Trump lawyer asked a bankruptcy court to shift from a Chapter 11 filing to a Chapter 7 filing under which his assets would be sold by a trustee.

The decision most likely delays Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 case past the election, and if he wins in November, people close to him expect the Justice Department to drop the charges.

Voters worried about Biden’s age long before Washington Democrats were willing to talk about it.

The president, under scrutiny since his damaging debate appearance last week, did not stumble or falter during his brief remarks.

Around Mr. Biden, a siege mentality has set in post-debate, one at odds with the persistent concerns of voters who view him as too old to be effective.

Organizers have until Friday to collect enough signatures to put abortion access on the ballot this fall in a state where conservative and evangelical values run deep.

The Supreme Court’s immunity decision directed the trial court to hold hearings on what portions of the indictment can survive — a possible chance for prosecutors to set out their case in public before Election Day.

The president’s son has argued that the network violated a New York law by showing the explicit images without his permission.

The lawsuit aims to force the release of recordings of the president’s conversation with an investigator who concluded he was a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” and “diminished faculties.”

Key excerpts from the decision reveal how the court’s conservative majority views the power of the nation’s leader.

Republicans praised the ruling as a rejection of what they characterized as Democrats’ using the government against Mr. Trump for political purposes, while Democrats expressed fear for the future of American democracy.

The final day of the current Supreme Court term included some of the most eagerly awaited decisions.

The residential high-rise tower in Jeddah is the latest of several developments that the former president’s company has planned for the Middle East.

The three Democratic appointees railed against the ruling that former President Donald J. Trump has some immunity for his official actions, declaring that their colleagues had made the president into “a king above the law.”

The senior Biden officials downplayed the political fallout of President Biden’s debate performance but provided precious little new information.

The ruling makes a distinction between official actions of a president, which have immunity, and those of a private citizen. In dissent, the court’s liberals lament a vast expansion of presidential power.

The episode he recorded Monday will be his last for four months, but the longtime adviser to Donald Trump has no intention of surrendering his influence.

The ad doesn’t show footage of the president’s halting debate showing, focusing instead on his energetic appearance at a rally the next day.

An 81-year-old candidate and no Plan B. “How did we get here?” one leading Democrat asks. The answer is complicated.

The multibillion-dollar deal will reverse a decision the plane maker made two decades ago to outsource production of key parts to independent suppliers.

The Justice Department told victims’ families that it would propose a nearly $244 million fine and three years of company oversight to settle a fraud charge.

President Biden is trying to figure out how to tamp down Democratic anxiety after last week’s disastrous debate performance.

Critics of the approach say it risks making President Biden and his campaign seem woefully out of touch with the voters they need to win.

Surrogates on Sunday made the case for the president, who spent the weekend reassuring donors and supporters, with a message focused on his record and that of Donald J. Trump.

With countless calls and a rush of campaign events, the president’s team began a damage-control effort to pressure and plead with anxious Democratic lawmakers, surrogates, activists and donors.

Vice-presidential hopefuls are posturing as part of a bid to highlight their ties to wealthy donors.

In Virginia, Donald Trump and his supporters reveled in the moment, and mused about a shadowy Democratic plan to shift candidates.

In another sign of Donald J. Trump’s grip on the Republican Party, his team wants the party’s platform to be a succinct pro-Trump document, not an “unnecessarily verbose treatise.”

Some floated interventions and wondered about how to reach Jill Biden. Others hoped the president would bow out of the race on his own. Many came to terms with the low chances that he will do so.

The WikiLeaks founder spent years in captivity in London before talks accelerated this spring, allowing him to go home to Australia as a felon, but a free man.

President Biden’s stumbling performance at the debate has spurred interest in replacements. Here’s a roster of some possible backup candidates.

If President Biden seriously considered departing the race, the first lady would be the most important figure other than Mr. Biden himself in reaching that decision.

A day after his falsehoods largely went unchecked amid an unsteady debate performance by President Biden, former President Donald J. Trump argued that the president was unfit for office.

President Biden’s allies can no longer wave away concerns about his capacity after his unsteady performance at Thursday’s debate as worries among Democrats grow.

Vice President Kamala Harris tried to calm Democratic fears as her allies wondered what could be next for her.

Donald J. Trump accused immigrants of stealing “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs” during Thursday’s debate, prompting criticism from Democrats and other social media users.

It was the smallest TV audience for a presidential debate since 2004, but CNN’s telecast was still among the highest-rated programs of the year.

A day after a shaky debate performance that led to talk of a new Democratic candidate, President Biden was forceful and confident while speaking to supporters.

It was the biggest stage yet for his effort to rewrite the story of Jan. 6, 2021.

The official also said President Biden was committed to attending the next presidential debate in September.

The former president faced a similar crisis of confidence in his re-election campaign after a bad debate performance in 2012, and he defended his former running mate in a social media post.

Bickering about their golf handicaps in Thursday’s presidential debate was panned as a petty exercise between two aging men trying vainly to outdo one another.

In finding that prosecutors misused an obstruction law to charge rioters, the justices highlighted the lack of an established legal blueprint for addressing an attack on the foundations of democracy.

Facing resilient Democratic incumbents, G.O.P. House and Senate nominees highlighted their opponents’ support for President Biden after he faltered in the presidential debate.

Two rulings this week by the Republican-appointed majority add to its steady pursuit of enfeebling the ability of the administrative state to impose rules on powerful business interests.

Stephen Bannon will have to begin serving four months in prison on Monday, after the court turned aside his request to remain free while he appeals his conviction for contempt of Congress.

The combination of President Biden’s debate performance and adverse Supreme Court rulings left Democrats reeling and in despair with elections not far off.

Successive successes reinvigorated Donald Trump’s campaign a month after he became the first major party nominee convicted of a felony.

While it is possible, it would most likely lead to political upheaval in the party unless the president decides to step aside on his own terms.

Poll respondents who had thought the president would perform well expressed disappointment. ‘His communication fell down,’ one voter said.

Former President Donald J. Trump continued to spread fear of immigrants, while the president did not define any broader strategy on the issue.

A range of despairing Democrats began to reconsider their nominee after his rough debate showing, but there was no agreement on how, or whether, to urge him to step off the ticket.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has made it easier to sue agencies and get their rules struck down.

President Biden tried to minimize concerns about his fitness for office, saying he would not be running if he didn’t think he was up to the job.

The president’s surrogates acknowledged his struggles in the debate but said that one night did not reflect his successes, or the dangers of a second Trump term.

The Republican-led House loaded its funding measures with provisions that have no chance of becoming law, as both parties look toward a bigger fight later this year, most likely after the elections.

The decision overturning a longstanding precedent is likely to spawn challenges to dozens of tax regulations.

The MSNBC host Joe Scarborough urged him to consider dropping out. So did other pundits the president had long viewed as his strongest allies in the news media.

The decision overturning a precedent known as Chevron deference was celebrated by those who would target medication abortion and rights for transgender people.

Leaders of the anti-abortion movement sent a letter to Donald J. Trump amid worries he may try to weaken the anti-abortion language in the party platform.

The ruling will amplify a shift already underway in the lower courts, which have in recent years been receptive to lawsuits challenging financial regulators’ actions.

A recent flurry of diplomacy aims to head off a conflict that could pit the United States directly against Iran.

Experts in legal ethics have said that the activities of the justices’ wives raised serious questions about their impartiality.

Challenges could range from whether tainted spinach can be traced back to a farm to a decision on whether drugs are safe and effective enough to be sold in the United States.

The decision is expected to prompt a rush of litigation challenging regulations across the entire federal government, from food safety to the environment.

The case is likely to have broad ramifications for how cities across the country respond to homelessness.

The CNN presidential debate kept the volume down, for a change. That didn’t make it more intelligible.

The two Americans who most want this presidential rematch were the ones standing onstage.

The court’s strategy of avoidance and delay cannot last and may have been shaped by a desire to avoid controversy in an election year.

President Biden struggled through his first debate of the 2024 campaign against Donald J. Trump, meandering and mumbling through answers as the former president pressed his case for a second term with limited resistance from his rival.

Supporters of both candidates were at the debate to sell their version of reality. One group seemed to have an easier time with it.

During brief remarks to reporters after his showdown with former President Donald J. Trump, Mr. Biden said he felt he “did well” but noted that he had a sore throat.

The anchors mostly receded into the background on Thursday night. That was exactly what CNN leadership had in mind.

In a tense interview, Vice President Kamala Harris defended President Biden’s record in office and downplayed the moments during the debate where he faltered.

In a testy, personal clash, President Biden failed to ease worries about his age, Donald Trump forcefully made his case (with wild claims and exaggerations) and the moderators held their fact-checking fire.

The former president’s remarks onstage, repeated often on the campaign trail, were striking with his opponent standing a few feet away.

The plan giving temporary protected status to people from the Caribbean island who arrived after November 2022 comes amid a flurry of recent immigration moves by the president.

The independent presidential candidate answered the same questions that the CNN hosts asked of former President Donald J. Trump and President Biden.