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The president continued using his power to help his supporters, including his former chief strategist and one of his top 2016 fund-raisers.

President Trump remains the most powerful man in the world, but powerless to achieve what he most wants: to avoid leaving office as a loser.

Most states offer livestreams to watch the proceedings, including crucial battlegrounds won by President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. After Monday’s vote, the process moves to Congress.

In pushing his false claims to the limits and cowing Republicans into acquiescence or silence, President Trump has revealed the fragility of the electoral system — and shaken it.

Porter Wright withdrew from a federal lawsuit it had filed days earlier. A top Jones Day lawyer said the firm wouldn’t take on new election litigation.

As President Trump and his administration insist he didn’t lose, the rest of the world has increasingly moved to accept Joe Biden’s victory.

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has yet to receive a presidential daily briefing, and it was unclear whether his team would have access to classified information.

A victory by the Democrats would herald the arrival of a formidable multiracial coalition in the country’s largest red state.

With less than three weeks left in the campaign, there was no sign that either candidate was diverging from the political tracks they laid down months ago.

Ms. Guthrie pressed the president on why he had retweeted a conspiracy theory, and whether he’d taken a coronavirus test on the day of the last debate.

The startling turn of events in the race for the White House left both sides confronting a wrenching series of strategic choices just one month before Election Day.

President Trump’s unwillingness to say he would abide by the result and his disinformation campaign about election fraud went beyond anything President Vladimir V. Putin could have imagined.

John R. Kasich, a lifelong Republican and former rival of President Trump’s spoke at the Democratic convention — and says he will vote for Joseph R. Biden Jr.

His ominous remarks were a reflection of his political standing: trailing in the polls, lacking a booming economy or a positive message to campaign on, and leaning on culture wars to buoy his loyalists.