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“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 on Tuesday he hinted about his running mate pick and attacked Vice President Kamala Harris.

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.

In a report, the regulator sharply criticized pharmacy benefit managers, a turnaround from its longstanding tolerance of their practices.

In her sixth visit to Las Vegas this year, Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the stakes of President Biden’s fight against Donald J. Trump.

The Supreme Court decision granting former presidents broad protection from prosecution kicked to the trial court key rulings about how much of Donald Trump’s indictment on election charges can stand.

Russian forces continue to inflict pain, but NATO leaders gathering in Washington can say that their efforts to strengthen Ukraine are working.

A summit meant to convey confidence in the newly expanded alliance opened with a dazzling celebration and no mention of President Biden’s political peril.

In private and in public, President Biden made clear he holds all the cards when determining his political future. Can he get his Democratic critics to fold?

Eleven days after his disastrous debate performance, the president’s strategy is coming into focus.

Karine Jean-Pierre, the press secretary, refused to answer questions about whether visits to the White House by a Parkinson’s doctor were about the president.

Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, refused to speak about several visits to the White House by a neurologist from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

The president’s defiant letter to lawmakers declaring that he would not end his candidacy no matter what did not stop the stream of Democrats publicly expressing skepticism about his viability.

With three children and a dog, the Aguilar Ortega family trekked through the jungle, hopped freight trains and toured Times Square. Significant challenges still lay ahead.

The plane manufacturer must still resolve various legal challenges and operational problems tied to the troubled 737 Max plane.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States proposed a rule that would make it harder for foreigners to buy land near military bases.

The Michigan governor made the remarks to The Associated Press and called the speculation “a distraction more than anything.”

As the president stared down his own party back in Washington, the first lady, a popular campaign-trail surrogate, got to work trying to convince voters that the president was staying in the race.

Senators have had plenty of practice watching colleagues hold stubbornly onto their positions of power as they grow old. None wants to lead a public call for President Biden to withdraw.

Over 18 minutes, the president repeated his assertion that he was staying in the race and suggested it was time to turn the focus back to Donald Trump.

The White House said President Biden had met with a neurologist only three times in more than three years in office, and implied that the doctor’s visits were related to treating other people.

The document reflects the former president’s ideological grip on his party, outlining the same nationalistic priorities that his campaign website does.

The junior member of the court’s six-justice conservative supermajority often questioned its approach and wrote important dissents joined by liberal justices.

The Biden administration is trying to get foreign companies to invest in chip-making in the United States and more countries to set up factories to do final assembly and packaging.

President Biden defied his critics in a letter to Democratic members of Congress and in fiery remarks on MSNBC.

After President Biden’s rocky answer on abortion at the debate, his campaign has ramped up its messaging on Donald Trump’s role in overturning Roe v. Wade and his policy stances.

The Biden campaign’s effort to raise questions about Donald J. Trump’s ability to be president has boomeranged into a referendum on the president’s own competence.

The former president’s campaign team has packed the 2024 platform committee, which meets in Milwaukee this week, with the MAGA faithful.

As part of the deal, stemming from fatal 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019, the company agreed to pay a fine of nearly half a billion dollars and strengthen its safety programs.

WURD said that the interview with President Biden was not up to its standards and that the host, Andrea Lawful-Sanders, had resigned in a mutual decision.

The Ohio senator suggested it was “a totally reasonable thing” for former President Donald J. Trump to, if re-elected, appoint a prosecutor to investigate the Biden administration.

“I think what the Supreme Court did is, it clarified what the law is,” Senator Rubio, a Florida Republican, said on CNN on Sunday.

During a private meeting of top House Democrats, several senior lawmakers said it was time for President Biden to withdraw, while a Senate Democrat said publicly he must do more to reassure voters.

The development of Elon Musk’s facility in South Texas did not play out as local officials were originally told it would.

A New York Times investigation found that Elon Musk exploited federal agencies’ competing missions to achieve his goals for space travel.

The president campaigned in Pennsylvania on Sunday hoping to energize his key voters and salvage his campaign.

The resilience that President Biden sold as a trademark of his political brand for half a century now looks to some like blind resistance in the face of a rising tide.

The process of choosing a running mate has created a new roster of rising Republicans with the potential to lead the ticket in 2028.

The former speaker has spent much of his time, energy and money since leaving Congress in a bid to defeat the Republicans who cost him his gavel — and his political career.

Treasury officials want to impose penalties on tankers that help Russian oil evade sanctions. White House aides worry that risks making gasoline more expensive.

Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist, wants warmer relations with the West, with the goal of ending sanctions. But his powers are strictly limited.

Walt Nauta, a personal aide to former President Donald J. Trump, claimed that he was the victim of vindictive prosecution in the classified documents case.

ABC News tweaked its transcript of an intriguing moment in its Friday interview with the president after the Biden administration and news outlets raised questions.

On Saturday, in an appearance in New Orleans, Vice President Harris spoke of her biography and the Biden administration’s achievements, while jabbing at former President Donald J. Trump.

Employees of the National Education Association picketed the site of the group’s annual convention after a walkout over issues including overtime pay.

The president defended his debate performance with exaggerations about polling, his recent appearances and his opponent.

Interviews with dozens of Democrats illustrated an imminent clash between a defiant president and those who question his ability to win. Many rank-and-file party officials remain supportive.

The postponement was likely to cause only minor delays to the case, which has already slowed to a crawl with Judge Aileen Cannon’s previous decisions.

A radio host told CNN that she had received a list of eight questions to approve before one of the president’s interviews on Wednesday.

Representative Emilia Sykes is one of only a few Black Democrats in Congress who don’t resemble most of their constituents, and whose political survival this year will help determine which party controls the House.

A former State Department official, he resigned in protest in 1982 over Cuba policy, then spent decades trying to rebuild relations with the island nation.

President Biden insisted on Friday that he would stay in the race. But if he decides to step aside, these individuals will determine who leads the ticket.

It’s a change from 2016, when House Republicans were the preferred candidates. At least two senators — J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio — are on the short list for the vice president slot.

After last week’s devastating debate performance, the president’s prime-time interview with ABC News was an exercise in not just damage control but reality control.

Both Democratic supporters of Biden’s campaign and those who have called for him to drop out signaled that the president’s interview with ABC News only reaffirmed their stances on his candidacy.

President Biden dismissed concerns about his age, his mental acuity and polls showing him losing his re-election bid.

Respectfully but firmly, the ABC anchor pressed President Biden on the basic questions that Americans had asked themselves over the past week.

The conversation between the president and George Stephanopoulos lasted about 20 minutes and aired Friday night.

“Every day I have that test. Everything I do,” President Biden said in his ABC News interview. “Not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world.”

In his first television interview since the debate, President Biden tried to reassure supporters, but he spent much of the interview resisting questions about his capabilities.

“I tell you, he looked a whole lot better than the debate,” said one voter in Detroit.

The House minority leader scheduled a virtual meeting for Sunday.

Plans for a late July fund-raiser in Wisconsin are now off, and it’s unclear whether another event in Texas will proceed, following President Biden’s disastrous debate performance.

While some House Democrats have been outspoken about the president’s debate performance, most senators have so far been quieter about their concerns.

The former president’s lawyers asked to freeze nearly all proceedings while they sort out whether the Supreme Court decision applies to charges focused on actions after he left the White House.

Vice President Kamala Harris has spent the past year trying to quiet her doubters. Now, with President Biden’s candidacy on the line, Democrats are assessing whether she is up to being the nominee.

Arkansas is the third state this week where organizers said they had collected enough support for a petition to enshrine some abortion access in the State Constitution.

Representative Mike Quigley of Illinois became the fourth of his cohort to call on President Biden to leave the race, a day after Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts did so.

President Biden pledged to continue his re-election bid, attacking Donald Trump as a “liar” and a threat to democracy while campaigning in battleground Wisconsin.

Hearing echoes of Independence Day a century ago, when Americans were clashing over race, religion, immigration and presidential candidates.

President Biden is giving his first television interview since last week’s debate to George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, a key moment as he tries to rebound from a poor performance.

Whether to publish the voluminous paper trail left behind by the assailant was one of the most contested issues that arose from the attack.

A high-stakes moment for the president could also be the most consequential interview of the star anchor’s career.

The new ads are part of a push by Mr. Biden’s campaign for stability at a time when some members of his party have called for the president to drop out.

Republicans and Democrats live in radically different universes, interpreting the same set of facts through radically different lenses.

A former national security adviser says Washington “must test new nuclear weapons for reliability and safety in the real world,” while critics say the move could incite a global arms race that heightens the risk of war.

The president’s appearances have come under intense scrutiny since he appeared feeble in his debate against former President Donald J. Trump.

The president appears intent on remaining on the ballot, while wealthy donors are discussing plans to put their money elsewhere.

The move escalates a fight with China and world antidoping officials, and will cast a shadow over the Paris Olympics.