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Several cities in the state will top 110 degrees over the next few days.

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.

The state’s prison system has faced recent scrutiny for failing to care for inmates.

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.

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.

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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 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.

The jurors said they were “deeply divided” over whether Ms. Read killed her boyfriend, a Boston police officer; prosecutors said they would try the case again.

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 court rules that former presidents have absolute immunity for core constitutional powers, and are also entitled to at least a presumption of immunity for official acts.

The justices unanimously returned two cases, which concerned state laws that supporters said were aimed at “Silicon Valley censorship,” to lower courts. Critics had said the laws violated the sites’ First Amendment rights.

The ruling could amplify the impact of a separate decision overturning the Chevron doctrine, which had required courts to defer to executive agencies’ interpretations of statutes.

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 budget includes $12 million for reparations measures for the state’s Black residents.

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.

Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

A measure seeking to protect abortion access in the State Constitution will appear on the ballot. It is one of nearly a dozen such initiatives that could shape other races this election.

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.

Organizers of a plan to adorn some trains with googly eyes said that if the trains could not be reliable, they could at least make commuters smile.

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.

A military lab found distinctive damage from repeated blast exposure in every brain it tested, but Navy SEAL leaders were kept in the dark about the pattern.

A growing number of scientists suggest that troops are getting brain injuries from firing heavy weapons. An old party trick involving a beer bottle explains the physics of what happens when a blast wave hits the brain, and the damage it can cause.

Direct cash payments are not imminent, but under the state’s new budget, the money could go toward other reparations-related proposals pending in the Legislature.

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

The ruling by a federal judge is the latest setback for G.O.P.-controlled states that have passed their own laws on immigration.

A former hippie who chafed at wealth, she married a Chicago real estate titan and, after his death, donated hundreds of millions in her adopted city and beyond.

Fruit may be a staple. It can also be a status symbol prized for flavor, rarity and appearance.

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.