New York Times

Lawyers for Mr. Biden are considering a number of challenges to the guilty verdict, including one based on the Second Amendment.

The attorney general has refused Republican demands to turn over audio recordings by the special counsel who investigated the president’s handling of classified documents.

Democrats made what they knew was a doomed attempt as they faced pressure from the left to do more to try to hold the court accountable.

The White House spokeswoman said she had not spoken with the president about the matter yet.

The Western Governors’ Association celebrated its 40th anniversary with high hopes and low turnout.

The retired neurosurgeon and former housing secretary is a wild card in the vice-presidential sweepstakes. His main advantage is that Donald Trump genuinely likes him.

Democratic candidates have leads in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Michigan and Arizona — but strategists aligned with both parties caution that the battle for Senate control is just starting.

Many allies of Donald J. Trump had secretly wanted an acquittal, which they predicted would have turbocharged fund-raising and fed their claims of a rigged justice system.

But despite the partisan roar, two juries appeared to seriously weigh the evidence and deliver verdicts. The system seemed to work as it is supposed to.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., once close allies, have embraced starkly different conceptions of the judicial role.