U.S. Politics

Mr. Trump’s allies are preparing to try to short-circuit the election system, if he does not win.

By Jim Rutenberg and Nick Corasaniti

Former President Donald J. Trump is scheduled to accept the G.O.P. nomination during the four-day gathering in Milwaukee.

By Neil Vigdor

Without the protection of Chapter 11, the former mayor and Trump lawyer could have his assets seized and sold by creditors.

By Eileen Sullivan

The Treasury secretary views food as a way to connect, and her dining decisions have become the subject of global intrigue.

By Alan Rappeport

These candidates say the issue cannot be avoided in 2024, and dismiss the notion that focusing on men, who typically prioritize the economy, is a risk.

By Jazmine Ulloa

Facing rising frustration in his party, the president brushed it off in an energetic speech in Michigan. Inside the room, at least, the Democratic mood was defiant, with cheers of “Don’t go, Joe.”

By Nicholas Nehamas and Reid J. Epstein

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. privately reached out last week to a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in the late 1990s, an account detailed in a recent magazine article.

By Rebecca Davis O’Brien

The drama surrounding the president’s bid for re-election has captured voters’ interest.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

President Biden’s remarks were in response to a Democratic lawmaker who told him on a Zoom call that he should withdraw from the 2024 presidential campaign.

By Michael D. Shear

While Biden has been in the spotlight, Republicans rewrote their platform and used dark rhetoric.

By Jess Bidgood

The company said on Friday that its users should be able to hear from all presidential candidates “on the same basis.”

By Mike Isaac

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer posted a welcome on social media but was not on hand. The state’s two Democratic senators, Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters, and a leading candidate for Ms. Stabenow’s seat, Representative Elissa Slotkin, all were otherwise occupied.

By Chris Cameron

For many of the president’s allies, it’s not the last three and a half years that concern them. It’s the next four.

By Zolan Kanno-Youngs

The decision means that the former New York City mayor and lawyer for Donald Trump will face his creditors without protection from federal bankruptcy laws.

By Eileen Sullivan

The company will spend $242 million to resolve allegations that it released methane, a greenhouse gas, and other pollutants in North Dakota.

By Rebecca F. Elliott

The Sunrise Movement, expressing concern about the president’s ability to win re-election, said he should “pass the torch to a new nominee.”

By Lisa Friedman

Donald J. Trump appears to be giving more weight to political calculations in selecting a running mate, by picking someone who “helps you get elected.”

By Michael C. Bender

After the House minority leader visited the White House to share Democrats’ concerns over his candidacy, the president held a tense virtual session with lawmakers in which he resisted a call to step aside.

By Annie Karni

Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, called for Biden to demonstrate “what will change that will enable him” to win in November.

By Katie Glueck

After a yearlong inquiry, the Federal Trade Commission warned brands not to gag their small business operators or charge them extra fees.

By Lydia DePillis

The decision to withhold such enormous sums of money is one of the most concrete examples of the fallout from President Biden’s poor debate performance at the end of June.

By Shane Goldmacher and Theodore Schleifer

Lingering worries about President Biden’s age could make Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Virginia competitive, party operatives believe.

By Nicholas Nehamas and Kellen Browning

With Washington looking toward China, and the possibility of another Trump presidency, Europe should do more for its own defense. Here are four key areas to watch.

By Steven Erlanger

The president’s chances increasingly rely on the possibility that the polls are misfiring.

By Nate Cohn

While still facing calls from Democrats to drop his re-election bid, President Biden is planning attacks on Donald Trump and Project 2025.

By Nicholas Nehamas

Medical providers and public health experts worry that the health care system is poorly equipped to handle the influx.

By Noah Weiland

Some far-right commentators have long argued that Democratic Party elites were plotting to replace President Biden. Now those commentators say they’ll be proved correct.

By Stuart A. Thompson

The candidate is blurring the lines between politics and business and turning his tribulations into cash — selling Bibles, clothing he wore in a mug shot and the promise of political salvation.

By Russ Buettner

At his news conference, the president also acknowledged a new strategy to disrupt the growing ties between China and Russia but provided no details.

By David E. Sanger

The challenge for President Biden after last month’s debate debacle is that every public appearance between now and November will be scrutinized for evidence of infirmity.

By Peter Baker

In a nearly hourlong news conference, the president defended his decision to stay in the race amid questions about his age and mental acuity, but also showed a command of foreign policy.

By Zolan Kanno-Youngs

The president put on a competent showing at his pressure cooker of a news conference, but it remained in doubt if he could stem the bleeding of Democratic support.

By Shane Goldmacher, Lisa Lerer and Reid J. Epstein

Even as the president promoted his vice president’s qualifications alongside his own, he committed the sort of gaffe that has unnerved Democrats, referring to her as “Vice President Trump.”

By Erica L. Green

More representatives called for the president to end his re-election bid after a session with reporters, while others highlighted his firm grasp of foreign policy after a NATO summit.

By Nicholas Nehamas

In an attempt to defend Vice President Kamala Harris, President Biden fumbled his answer to a reporter’s question and referred to “Vice President Trump” instead of Vice President Harris.

By Reuters

The gaffe referring to his own running mate as “Vice President Trump” during a closely watched news conference came shortly after he introduced the president of Ukraine as “President Putin.”

By Chris Cameron

Weapons donations from the United States and European countries will take weeks, if not months, to reach the front lines.

By Lara Jakes and Eric Schmitt

President Biden introduced President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine as President Putin before correcting himself on Thursday afternoon after a NATO meeting.

By Reuters

The president’s stable of big donors, corralled in part by the movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, has been devastated since his debate, with many closing their wallets.

By Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein and Reid J. Epstein

Biden takes the stage in Washington as doubts about his candidacy spread among his own staff.

By Jess Bidgood

“The Earl Ingram Show” cut two segments from an interview with the president that aired on July 4.

By Ken Bensinger

At a time when the president’s vigor is an issue, his vice president said he was battle-tough and warned about another Trump term.

By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Tim Balk

His advisers are eager to define the vice president and drive down her approval ratings in case President Biden drops out of the race and she becomes the nominee.

By Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman

At a rally in Greensboro, N.C., Vice President Kamala Harris called President Biden a fighter prepared to “get back up” from the challenges facing his campaign.

By The New York Times

The majority leader has been caught in an awkward spot as he balances his role as President Biden’s Senate champion with his determination to hold the majority and the White House.

By Carl Hulse

Even if President Biden can stem high-level Democratic defections, many Americans will still have grave concerns about his age and abilities.

By Katie Glueck and Maya King

As Donald Trump heads to the Republican convention, his criminal cases look a lot less threatening.

By Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman

The company produces artillery shells and tanks that Ukraine has used in its war against Russia.

By Julian E. Barnes, Lara Jakes and Christopher F. Schuetze

The man, who had been arrested days earlier on the Capitol grounds, was accused of stealing phones and other electronic devices belonging to national security aides who had left them outside a secure space.

By Catie Edmondson

The New York congresswoman was blamed for not being supportive enough of the Palestinian cause and efforts to end the war in Gaza.

By Nicholas Fandos

A review of President Biden’s interviews shows he is often asked the same few questions in interviews. It’s not a coincidence.

By Ken Bensinger

The $230 million short-notice project has struggled to overcome rough seas and other problems since it started in May.

By Eric Schmitt

Close allies of the president are developing a case for why he should step aside. But Mr. Biden is increasingly isolated.

By Michael S. Schmidt, Katie Rogers and Peter Baker

Four Republicans opposed the bid to fine the attorney general $10,000 a day for his refusal to comply with a congressional subpoena for recordings of the president’s interview with a special counsel.

By Maya C. Miller

The campaign is quietly carrying out a head-to-head survey of voters between the vice president and Donald Trump, in a sign of the uncertainty even atop the Democratic Party.

By Reid J. Epstein, Lisa Lerer, Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman

Frustrated prosecutors and alarmed election officials are finding that it’s not always easy to make charges stick for those who interfere with elections, including many of the Capitol rioters.

By Nick Corasaniti and Alan Feuer

Fiscal hawks are lamenting the transformation of the party that claimed to prize fiscal restraint and are warning of dire economic consequences.

By Alan Rappeport

The Teamsters’ president, Sean O’Brien, will address the Republican convention next week in Milwaukee, just when President Biden needs unified support from organized labor.

By Jonathan Weisman

The United States and Germany announced episodic deployments of longer-range American missiles in Germany starting in 2026.

By Ivan Nechepurenko and Paul Sonne

The meeting would come after Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has long been aligned with the former president, made unexpected trips to China, Russia and Ukraine.

By Michael Gold, Maggie Haberman and Derrick Bryson Taylor

By Michael D. Shear and Reid J. Epstein

As leaders gathered in Washington to mark the anniversary of the organization, they heard starkly different messages from two American presidents on NATO’s future.

By Peter Baker

A Jeep plant that closed last year will be among those that will benefit from federal grants meant to help automotive manufacturers and protect jobs.

By Jack Ewing

In a nearly hourlong appearance, President Biden hit back at questions about his fitness for office and engaged in long discourses on China and Gaza.

By Michael D. Shear

The beefed-up enforcement is part of the agency’s modernization initiative aimed at improving customer service and catching wealthy tax evaders.

By Alan Rappeport

Consumer Price Index inflation was 3 percent yearly in June and fell month-to-month, a sharper slowdown than expected and a relief for the White House.

By Jeanna Smialek

A set of conservative policy proposals called Project 2025 has put into words what a second term for Donald J. Trump could look like. Trump has distanced himself from the plan, but it aligns with many of his campaign promises. Political reporter, Jonathan Swan, explains.

By Jonathan Swan, John Pappas, Christina Shaman and James Surdam

The Biden campaign has attacked Donald J. Trump’s ties to the conservative policy plan that would amass power in the executive branch, though it is not his official platform.

By Simon J. Levien

Here is the party’s process for naming a candidate between now and Election Day, whether it is President Biden or someone else.

By Lily Boyce and Amy Schoenfeld Walker

‘It’s a catastrophe,’ said the senator from Vermont, becoming the first Democrat from that chamber to publicly say the president should step aside.

By Robert Jimison

A president who long delighted in public speech is now sometimes hard to understand. Does it matter?

By Jess Bidgood

A defiant and angry president says he is not going anywhere. Some Democrats are trying to appeal to another side of the politician, who has been a realist about his political fortunes before.

By Katie Rogers

The vice president told a crowd of roughly 20,000 in Dallas that former President Donald J. Trump had said he would terminate the Constitution in a second term.

By Zolan Kanno-Youngs

The statement was a major departure for the alliance, which until 2019 never officially mentioned China as a concern.

By David E. Sanger

If the judge follows through, it would allow creditors to pursue foreclosures, repossessions and lawsuits that have been on hold as Rudolph Giuliani sought the protection of bankruptcy law.

By Eileen Sullivan

Impeachment has no realistic chance of advancing in the Republican-controlled House, but it speaks to a motivating issue for Democrats: the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority.

By Maggie Astor

After largely disappearing from view to let Democratic infighting play out, Donald Trump held a rally that was at times boastful and mercilessly cruel.

By Shawn McCreesh

The Arkansas secretary of state said that the group collecting signatures to put an abortion-rights amendment on the ballot had failed to submit some of the necessary paperwork.

By Emily Cochrane

The dam has mostly held on Capitol Hill for President Biden, but cracks continued to open as more donors and elected officials publicly called on President Biden to drop out.

By Annie Karni

The interview will air in prime-time on NBC on Monday, the first night of the Republican National Convention.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

Donald J. Trump has not generally offered explicit evaluations of his top contenders, but he acknowledged on Wednesday that Doug Burgum’s abortion ban and Marco Rubio’s Florida residency complicate his choice.

By Michael Gold

Representative Elissa Slotkin, the leading Democrat seeking her state’s open Senate seat, said private polling showed former President Donald J. Trump leading President Biden.

By Michael C. Bender

Only four seats separate Democrats from the House majority, making the chamber a potential bulwark against complete Republican control. But gaining even a handful of seats will be difficult.

By Jonathan Weisman

President Biden is pushing back against those who say he is not up to the job.

By Peter Baker

The specter of a second Donald J. Trump presidency injects new urgency into the NATO summit this week. President Biden and other leaders agree Ukraine should have an “irreversible” path to membership.

By Edward Wong, Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper

Mr. Clooney, who co-hosted a lavish fund-raiser for President Biden last month, wrote in a guest essay in The New York Times that Democrats “are not going to win in November with this president.”

By Reid J. Epstein

The ABC anchor, in a surreptitious recording, said, “I don’t think he can serve four more years.”

By Michael M. Grynbaum

Representative Nancy Pelosi, a longtime Biden ally and the former speaker, is the most senior member of his party so far to suggest his status at the top of the ticket is uncertain.

By Annie Karni

Bennet of Colorado expressed more serious concern about President Biden’s campaign than any Senate Democrat has so far, saying that he was on track to lose and that it was up to Democrats to change that.

By Maggie Astor

The measure aims to close a loophole that officials said allowed metals made partly in China to come into the United States duty free.

By Ana Swanson