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Jack Smith plans to continue two criminal cases against Donald J. Trump until Inauguration Day if the former president wins, according to a person familiar with his thinking.

Representatives Jared Golden and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who are in tough re-election battles, added to widespread pessimism among Democrats about the election in November.

President Biden blamed his international travel schedule for his disjointed performance, calling it “not an excuse but an explanation.”

Haiti’s newly selected prime minister, Garry Conille, met with Democrats on Capitol Hill as well as Biden administration officials, seeking more help to combat the unrest in his country.

The veteran congressman, once a prominent voice for his party’s left flank on Capitol Hill, said aloud what some Democrats have privately whispered in the days since the president’s debate performance.

Democrats have rebuffed comparisons between 2024 and 1968. Recent events show they have more to do.

Mr. Castro, who was criticized for remarks questioning Mr. Biden’s memory in a 2020 primary debate, said Democrats should find another candidate.

State records from investigations in Florida and Tennessee accuse Peggy Randolph of allowing her wife to use her licenses to see patients online. The scheme came to light after the wife died.

Biden administration officials hope the money will help propel technological innovation in areas that have historically received less government funding.

After days of quiet hand-wringing, a few Democrats went public with their concerns about the president, worried not only about his chances but also the party’s ability to hold the Senate and win the House.

Determining which of the alleged acts that Donald Trump is being prosecuted for in the state were official conduct, and which were not, could delay the case for months.

In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom.

Three justices dissented in the case, which could affect more than two dozen youths sentenced to die in prison.

Donald J. Trump has not named a running mate this week. He appears eager to avoid stepping on the controversy swirling around President Biden in the debate’s aftermath.

People who have spent time with President Biden over the last few months or so said the lapses appear to have grown more frequent, more pronounced and, after Thursday’s debate, more worrisome.

The interview, with the anchor George Stephanopoulos, will be the president’s first in-depth appearance with a journalist since last week’s debate.

The self-help author is again trying to revive her own bid, despite losing the nomination to President Biden in March.

The former speaker said Trump told lies during the exchange, and it is fair to ask of both candidates: “Is this an episode or is this a condition?”

Lloyd Doggett, a Texas progressive, was the first sitting Democrat in Congress to publicly call on the president to stand aside, but he gave voice to private concerns that have simmered for days.

The process, outlined by James Zogby, starts with an unlikely prospect: President Biden announcing that he would drop out of the race.

The Times is looking for officers who were selected to serve on military commissions panels at Camp Justice to discuss the experience, within guidelines set by the court.

The Supreme Court’s decision to grant presidents immunity from prosecution over official actions is an extraordinary expansion of executive power. Charlie Savage, a reporter for The New York Times, analyzes the ruling by the court’s conservative majority, its long-term implications, and the three liberal justices’ vehement dissent.

The sentencing trial of an insurgent commander put a spotlight on the state of affairs at the wartime prison.

The lawsuit was filed a year after the Supreme Court struck down the use of racial and gender preferences in college admissions.

Senator Peter Welch of Vermont said that the campaign should acknowledge concerns about President Biden’s poor debate performance, not dismiss them.

The White House is also discussing having President Biden travel to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania this week as they work to move past his disastrous debate performance.

The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are at least 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds.

The court, which issued two major decisions on guns in the term that ended Monday, does not seem ready to return to the subject.

The former Ohio congressman said that he had lost confidence in President Biden’s ability to defeat former President Donald J. Trump.

Supporters say Leonard Peltier, 79, was unfairly blamed for the deaths of two F.B.I. agents in a shootout with activists.

Amid signs of dysfunction and disarray, Chief Justice John Roberts reasserted his authority, while the influence of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito waned.

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

The Biden campaign said it had raised $127 million in June together with the Democratic Party, while the Trump team said that he and the allied Republican Party committees had taken in $112 million.

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.

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.

The man, Othel Moore Jr., died of positional asphyxiation on Dec. 8 of last year at the Jefferson City Correctional Center in what the medical examiner’s office called a homicide.

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.

The most loyal, longstanding Democratic voters were perhaps the most shaken by President Biden’s performance. Some blamed the national party.

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.