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After years planning to face President Biden, Donald J. Trump and his team will be campaigning against Kamala Harris. He has attacked female rivals and critics in brutal and personal terms.

He was best known not for his own playing or singing but for recruiting and polishing the talents of one gifted lead guitarist after another, starting with Eric Clapton.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addresses Congress when the biggest chance to reshape the Middle East since Camp David in the 1970s is at hand.

An assailant ran over the 80-year-old man with an all-terrain vehicle, leaving him badly injured, law enforcement officials said, decrying the act of political violence.

Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first speech as the de facto Democratic nominee to a deafening crowd, keeping up her offensive against Donald Trump.

No one was injured when the promotional car struck another vehicle and rolled over on a highway in Illinois, the police said.

Kimberly A. Cheatle gave up her post Tuesday after security failures that allowed a gunman to shoot at former President Donald J. Trump at an open-air rally.

Voters eager to elect the first female president pointed to anger over a loss of abortion rights, but also acknowledged a fear that sexism would remain difficult for Ms. Harris to overcome.

On her first full day in the race, Kamala Harris drew endorsements from her final possible rivals, hauled in record sums of cash and attacked Donald Trump.

Endorsements cascaded in as the vice president took swift control of the Biden campaign in a transformed contest, though some key Democrats, including Barack Obama, did not immediately back her.

He sang tenor on hits like “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch).”

The funds will help rebuild a Democratic war chest that was at risk of being depleted in the weeks of uncertainty after President Biden’s poor debate, as big donors put a pause on fund-raising.

Robert De Niro thanked President Biden, Aaron Sorkin backed Vice President Kamala Harris (not Mitt Romney) as his replacement and George Clooney is keeping quiet.

The first big decision for Ms. Harris: Who will be her running mate if she is nominated by the Democratic Party to run for president in August.

Mr. Walker, who oversaw $7 billion in grants, plans to leave at the end of 2025 after what will have been 12 years.

Long concerned about his “epitaph,” the president reluctantly surrendered his bid for a second term, but Democrats argue that his willingness to give up power may yet enhance his role in posterity.

Latinos in Montgomery, Ala., said they had been sounding the alarm for months, describing the killings at a grocery store as the culmination of unchecked violence.

History will remember what this former lion of the Senate accomplished from the West Wing to improve Black communities across the nation.

He did what Trump would never do: place the national interest above his own pride and ambition.

The president’s withdrawal under pressure from fellow Democrats cleared the way for a new nominee to take on former President Donald J. Trump in the fall. He quickly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.

In a reversal, a spokesman said the service had turned down requests from former President Donald J. Trump’s team over the past two years, though he said the requests did not include the recent rally in Pennsylvania.

President Biden did not tell most of his staff until a minute before making his announcement to the world on social media on Sunday. Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Mr. Biden went on to endorse, also learned of his decision on Sunday.

Ms. Harris, the first woman, and woman of color, to be vice president, has faced sexist and racist attacks, but she has energized a network of support.

When Hornee and Blackee strayed from their pasture, they set off a chaotic chain of events involving death threats, chicken rustlers and Joaquin Phoenix. The town of Newfane, N.Y., hasn’t been the same since.

She wants to protect the right to abortion nationally. Here’s what else to know about her positions.

An M.I.T. physicist, he engineered an East-West deal that reduced nuclear threats and produced one of the greatest peace dividends of all time.

As President Biden grapples with the possibility of dropping his bid for re-election, a secondary question looms: Should he endorse his own vice president as the nominee?

Former President Donald J. Trump has an aggressive — and some argue offensive — campaign using hip-hop and rap to reach young Black and Latino voters.

The assassination attempt, like so much else, should be a wake-up call. It was a near miss for Trump but also for America — and a chance to make things better.

Violent clashes have erupted between the police and students protesting a quota system used to fill coveted civil service jobs.

If Democrats hope to win, they have to take the MAGA worldview seriously and respectfully make the case, especially to working-class voters, for something better.

A singer, composer, curator and founder of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock, she provided a gospel soundtrack for the civil rights movement.

Betty Gordon came to New York to become an actress (and have a good time). But her greatest talent may have been helping others.

Airlines, hospitals and people’s computers were affected after CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, sent out a flawed software update.

Known for his “blazing furnace” anticorruption campaign, Mr. Trong consolidated power in one of the world’s few remaining Communist dictatorships.

The Wall Street Journal reporter’s trial on espionage charges was widely viewed as a sham outside Russia. But the verdict could set the stage for a prisoner exchange.

He was a show-business neophyte when he stammered his way to fame in 1960. He went on to star in two of TV’s most memorable sitcoms.

The finale has become so famous in part because it offered a rare moment of real surprise from a taped prime-time television sitcom.

After staying largely out of sight, the former president’s wife and his eldest daughter joined him as he accepted the Republican nomination. But his youngest son did not.

A trailblazer for women in Asian martial arts cinema, Ms. Cheng rose to fame in the 1960s in Hong Kong.