The Republican vice-presidential nominee has spoken often about drug-afflicted communities like the one he escaped. But those communities have tempered their expectations for his help.
An absence of medical records or official accounts has stirred confusion, but a Times video and trajectory analysis indicates a bullet, not debris, wounded the former president.
The inspector general said he was troubled by William Barr’s decision in 2020 to brief President Trump on an inquiry over nine discarded ballots, which might have encouraged Mr. Trump’s false election claims.
In a speech from the Oval Office, President Biden said it was time to “pass the torch to a new generation.” But he said nothing about his own age or capacity that led so many Democrats to desert him.
In the days since President Biden ended his re-election bid and passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald Trump’s campaign has been crowded out of the headlines.
The F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, disclosed to lawmakers that the Google search was perhaps an early indication that the gunman began to contemplate an assassination.