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The F.B.I. said it had gained access to the would-be assassin’s phone, but it was not immediately clear whether it had yielded clues.

By Glenn Thrush

The way Republicans at the national convention see it, somehow, everything is going their way.

By Jess Bidgood

Mr. Vance spilled scores of details about his life in his coming-of-age memoir. We’ve collected the highlights.

By Shawn McCreesh

Fellow students described the gunman, Thomas Crooks, as intelligent but solitary, someone who tried to avoid teasing by his classmates.

By Chelsia Rose Marcius, Nicole Hong and Jack Healy

The vice president also offered her congratulations to the Ohio senator, Donald Trump’s running mate pick.

By Nicholas Nehamas

The political rivals met just hours before Republicans formally named Donald J. Trump their presidential nominee, and as Mr. Kennedy was set to receive Secret Service protection in the wake of the assassination attempt on Mr. Trump.

By Rebecca Davis O’Brien

The man’s voice can be heard in a bystander video that has been repeatedly featured in news reports about the assassination attempt.

By Christina Morales

In an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, President Biden said he regretted using the word but defended his descriptions of the former president as a threat to democracy.

By Michael D. Shear

The authorities found the body of a 41-year-old Minnesota man who had disappeared two days earlier after saving his son and stepdaughter from the swift-moving river.

By Annie Correal

Democrats quickly went on the attack against the newly anointed Republican vice-presidential nominee, calling out what they called his “extreme MAGA agenda.”

By Nicholas Nehamas

Even as the former president and his team flew Sunday on his private plane from Bedminster, N.J., to Milwaukee, Mr. Trump was said to have peppered aides and family members about his choice.

By Michael C. Bender

The gunman wore a T-shirt from a popular gun-themed YouTube channel. The creator said he was “just in disbelief.”

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff

See the latest election polls and polling averages for Minnesota.

See the latest election polls and polling averages for Virginia.

Unlike after many mass shootings, there has been no concerted outcry from elected officials to implement stricter gun safety measures.

By Annie Karni

Overlapping investigations will focus on the decisions the protection agency made before and immediately after bullets nearly felled former President Trump on Saturday.

By David A. Fahrenthold, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Christina Morales and Mark Walker

We spoke to them about why they feel like their votes, while important, don’t seem to translate into the type of change they want to see in their daily lives.

By Julie Bosman, Noah Throop, Kassie Bracken and Mark Boyer

Worries about President Biden persist, and many see Donald Trump as electorally stronger after he survived an assassination attempt.

By Reid J. Epstein, Lisa Lerer, Katie Glueck and Nicholas Nehamas

Judge Aileen Cannon’s rulings in the documents case had fueled questions about favoritism and legal acumen even before she threw out the charges that Donald Trump had mishandled classified documents.

By Alan Feuer and Eileen Sullivan

“An incident like this cannot happen,” Alejandro N. Mayorkas told CNN, as the Secret Service faces intense scrutiny over the assassination attempt.

By Zolan Kanno-Youngs

James David Vance has had a number of names in his life, a function of an upbringing marked by domestic instability.

By Rebecca Davis O’Brien

Like Donald J. Trump, the Ohio senator has been skeptical of American intervention overseas and argues that raising tariffs will create new jobs.

By Adam Nagourney

He once called Donald Trump “cultural heroin” and said he feared he could be “America’s Hitler.” But over an eight-year transformation, the Ohio senator became one of his most ardent supporters.

By Simon J. Levien

The 39-year-old from Ohio was best known as the author of the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” before his election to the Senate in 2022.

By Maggie Astor

A political newcomer and former Trump critic turned ally, Senator Vance relishes the spotlight and has already shown he can energize donors.

By Michael Gold

Members of Congress have opened multiple inquiries about how a gunman was allowed to get close enough to the former president to shoot at and injure him, as well as kill a rally attendee and wound others.

By Luke Broadwater

The turnaround for the head of Turning Point USA tells the story of how the Republican Party has united around former President Donald Trump.

By Jonathan Weisman

Here are some of the key questions about the Secret Service response to the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump.

By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Eileen Sullivan

Her decision rejected what the Supreme Court said in its landmark ruling in 1974.

By Charlie Savage

The interview, which will be broadcast unedited, was planned before the assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump.

By Maggie Astor

Before she was assigned Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case, she had little experience with criminal trials, and her impartiality came into question early on.

By Eileen Sullivan

Trump has talked of emphasizing “unity” after he survived an assassination attempt. The list features some of the most far-right members of the G.O.P.

By Maggie Astor and Maggie Haberman

People at the rally in Pennsylvania pointed to the suspected shooter two minutes before gunfire rang out, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

By David Botti, Malachy Browne, Haley Willis, Riley Mellen and Dmitriy Khavin

As inflation worries dominate, the Biden administration is struggling to take credit for infrastructure and industrial policy in the battleground state.

By Jeanna Smialek and Alan Rappeport

Political conventions are positioned as a reward of sorts for hard work — and the hard cash invested by contributors and fund-raisers.

By Theodore Schleifer

By Alan Feuer

Judge Cannon has shown a willingness to grant a serious audience to some of the former president’s most far-fetched defense claims.

By Alan Feuer

Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted in Virginia among 661 likely voters from July 9 to 12, 2024.

Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted in Pennsylvania among 872 registered voters from July 9 to 11, 2024.

Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted in Virginia among 661 registered voters from July 9 to 12, 2024.

Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted in Pennsylvania among 872 likely voters from July 9 to 11, 2024.

Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted in Virginia among 661 registered voters from July 9 to 12, 2024.

Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted in Pennsylvania among 872 registered voters from July 9 to 11, 2024.

The polls, taken before the assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump, found President Biden trailing Mr. Trump in Pennsylvania, a swing state critical to his re-election hopes, and slightly ahead in Virginia, a state he won by 10 points in 2020.

By Adam Nagourney and Ruth Igielnik

Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the classified documents case against former president Donald J. Trump should be thrown out because the appointment of the special counsel violated the Constitution.

Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the entire case should be thrown out because the appointment of the special counsel who brought the case, Jack Smith, had violated the Constitution. Mr. Smith’s office said he would appeal.

By Alan Feuer

At a county fair near Fargo, many residents shrugged off the heat, at least for one day.

By Kate Selig

Our California-focused newsletter will feature a curated collection of New York Times articles about the state.

By Soumya Karlamangla

Speaking to The New York Post and The Washington Examiner, Mr. Trump said he had thrown out a “tough speech” he had planned to make at the Republican National Convention.

By Jenny Gross

In Kern and San Luis Obispo counties, multiple wildfires have forced over 1,000 evacuations and briefly shut down Interstate 5 on Sunday night.

By Yan Zhuang and Christine Hauser

The demonstration, while spirited, appeared to be far smaller than organizers had expected. Some suggested that the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump may have affected the turnout and mood.

By Mitch Smith, Julie Bosman, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Robert Chiarito and Dan Simmons

As the Supreme Court veered to the right, David D. Cole oversaw hundreds of lawsuits against the Trump administration and helped secure more wins than losses before the justices.

By Adam Liptak

Volunteer firefighters in Buffalo Township, Pa., held a memorial for their colleague, Corey Comperatore, who was fatally shot at the Trump rally.

By Associated Press and Reuters

President Biden’s speech, delivered from the Oval Office, came just a day after the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump, and a day before the Republican National Convention was set to begin.

By U.S. Network Pool

One person was killed and two were critically injured. The victims, all adult men, include a longtime volunteer firefighter and a Marine Corps veteran.

By Isabelle Taft

Even without a known motive, Donald J. Trump’s allies are casting the attempt on his life as part of the story of oppression at the heart of this campaign.

By Charles Homans

Trump campaign officials raised concerns that the messaging and tone of the speeches set to be delivered at the Republican National Convention this week might be overly aggressive.

By Michael Gold and Michael C. Bender

The gunman appeared briefly in a television commercial that was filmed at Bethel Park High School, where he was a senior at the time.

By Michael M. Grynbaum and Maureen Farrell

The 20-year-old man from Pennsylvania who wounded former President Donald Trump left behind little social media presence or clues to what led him to open fire. Officials said he had no known history of mental illness.

By Glenn Thrush and Adam Goldman

As 50,000 people began arriving in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, Secret Service officials and local leaders aimed to reassure the public about safety.

By Julie Bosman, Ernesto Londoño and Dan Simmons

In photographs of the Secret Service snipers, they appeared to be using long-range and powerful rifles that likely fire .300 or .338 cartridges, commonly used by well-trained military snipers.

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff

President Biden calls for a review of the protective agency’s actions after the attack, which left an audience member dead and two critically wounded.

By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, David A. Fahrenthold, Hamed Aleaziz and Eileen Sullivan

Doug Mills, a veteran photographer for The New York Times, was only a few feet away from former President Donald J. Trump at the rally in Butler, Pa., when the shooting started. Mr. Mills kept his finger on the shutter button, photographing as the scene unfolded. It was only afterward, while reviewing his photos, that he realized he had captured the apparent path of a bullet used in the assassination attempt against the former president. He explains what he saw.

By Doug Mills, Nikolay Nikolov, Rebecca Suner, Alexandra Ostasiewicz and James Surdam

The former president said he would have been struck “right in the head” if he hadn’t turned and pointed at an immigration chart, Dr. Ronny Jackson said in an interview.

By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

The attack on former President Donald J. Trump comes at a time when the United States is already polarized along ideological and cultural lines and is split, it often seems, into two realities.

By Peter Baker

The president spoke from the Oval Office in a prime-time address, saying, “We can’t allow this violence to be normalized.”

By Michael D. Shear

The former president has used his site to share occasional updates. Users are both hailing him as a hero and posting unsubstantiated rumors.

By David Yaffe-Bellany

Relatives and friends described Corey Comperatore, who was fatally shot at a Trump rally, as a devoted father who served as a volunteer firefighter and loved to fish.

By Ernesto Londoño, Isabelle Taft, Christina Morales and Brian Conway

The statue depicted Sadako Sasaki, who was 12 when she died from cancer likely caused by the Hiroshima bombing. Community members believe a thief saw value in her bronze cast.

By Hank Sanders

The assassination attempt of Donald J. Trump was the latest escalation of political violence and a reminder of the increasing fragility of peaceful democracy in America.

By Shane Goldmacher

The woman, 29, was struck by her own vehicle after the suspects began driving away, the police said.

By Ernesto Londoño

One hundred and twelve years ago, Theodore Roosevelt was campaigning to return to the presidency when a gunman opened fire. He gave his speech anyway with a bullet in his chest.

By Peter Baker

The AR-15 rifle, billed as “America’s rifle” by the National Rifle Association, has been commonly used by mass shooters and is one of the most ubiquitous weapons in the United States.

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff

Footage from the scene of the shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday shows the suspected gunman had a clear line of sight toward the former president, despite being outside the rally’s secure perimeter.

By Dmitriy Khavin, Alexander Cardia, Aric Toler, Devon Lum and Christiaan Triebert

Few would argue there could be a more perfect setting for the final game of the Copa América soccer tournament on Sunday night.

By Patricia Mazzei

The risk of serious contact burns is increasing as temperatures soar and as more people move to the desert Southwest.

By Adeel Hassan and Isabelle Taft

Authorities identified the gunman as a 20-year-old man from Bethel Park, Pa., a town about an hour’s drive from the site of the shooting.

By Campbell Robertson, Jack Healy, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Glenn Thrush

The former president was holding a rally when he said he was shot in his ear. Two people, including the suspected gunman, were killed and two were critically injured.

By Michael Levenson

Some began to cry and to pray. Others screamed, as law enforcement officers shouted for everyone to get down.

By Campbell Robertson

Michael Harrigan, a retired F.B.I. special agent, said the image captured by Doug Mills, a New York Times photographer, seems to show a bullet streaking past former President Donald J. Trump.

By John Ismay