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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.

The president’s opening remark to a group of key Democratic leaders — that he was in the race to stay — chilled any talk of his withdrawal, participants said.

The former president’s reluctance to name a running mate has, in recent days, been partly to avoid shifting the focus away from President Biden amid fallout from the debate.

The former president has spent months painting President Biden as incapable of leading, but he has let Democrats do the doubting when it comes to whether Mr. Biden should leave the race.

An election over the future of a United Nations-affiliated organization could determine whether the Pacific Ocean floor will soon be mined for metals used in electric vehicles.

Blockbuster decisions by the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed supermajority — expanding one kind of executive branch authority while undercutting another — were no contradiction.

We convened a postdebate focus group with engaged voters who were united behind the idea that the country needed something other than President Biden vs. Donald Trump.

With Ukraine clamoring for more air defenses, officials are trying to scrape together a Patriot battery from spare parts scattered across the continent.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s slim election victory has forced India to reflect on how fawning coverage may have obscured a wave of opposition.

At a meeting with Democratic governors at the White House, the president was grilled about the path forward as he worked to solidify support from elected leaders.

The party’s official nominating convention is in mid-August, but a virtual roll call vote is supposed to take place beforehand.

The vice president is receiving support from both prominent Democrats and social media fans who show their enthusiasm with coconut tree emojis.

Granting an injunction to several plaintiffs, a judge said the Federal Trade Commission’s pending ban on noncompete agreements was unlikely to prevail.

Family members of Pvt. Philip G. Shadrach and Pvt. George D. Wilson received the nation’s highest decoration for combat valor.

I said this election wouldn’t be boring, but I didn’t think it would turn upside down so fast.

Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer and Andy Beshear were among those attending Wednesday’s meeting in person. At least a dozen governors were joining remotely.

A public declaration from a megadonor is another crack in the armor in the president’s foundation of support.

His remarks came a day after Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat, became the first member of his party in the House to call on Mr. Biden to withdraw.

Picking a new nominee could give Democrats a jolt of energy. But it could bring division and a crash-course campaign with no room for error.