New York Times

Vice President Kamala Harris is a sharp debater and a tireless campaigner, but televised interviews are a weakness. Her professional experience may explain why.

The president used a poignant White House ceremony to pass the baton to Vice President Kamala Harris, who has made gun safety an issue in her campaign.

A central question in the final stretch of the election is if Vice President Kamala Harris’s proposals will cohere into an economic argument that can top former President Donald J. Trump’s.

The G.O.P. has plenty of dysfunction to point to after nearly two years of controlling the chamber, but not many successes to show voters ahead of the Nov. 5 election.

Secret Service officials have advised altering routines and rethinking rally locations, after threats from Iran and two assassination attempts.

In a pair of votes in quick succession, the House and Senate moved to keep federal funding flowing through Dec. 20. But they punted a bigger spending fight to the end of the year.

President Biden became the first sitting president to appear live on “The View.” He said he was “at peace” with his decision not to run again.

The new federal indictment in Florida comes on top of two gun charges against Ryan W. Routh, an itinerant contractor with an extensive criminal record.

Kamala Harris’s campaign has framed the election in part as a fight to preserve American democracy. Donald Trump is the only U.S. president who has refused to accept his loss, in the 2020 election. Maggie Astor, a politics reporter at The New York Times, breaks down Harris and Trump’s policies on a pivotal topic: democracy.

The former president’s efforts to compel companies to remain in the United States had limited success while he was in the White House.