Four friends, all 21, planned to spend the weekend in the Hill Country. Then the rains came. Read full article

The right-wing provocateur and Islamophobe has few friends in the West Wing but a big fan in the Oval Office. Read full article

One police officer was wounded after at least two people shot at officers outside an immigration detention center in Texas, according to a criminal complaint in federal court. Read full article

President Trump is increasingly suggesting that he believes his Russian counterpart had become an impediment to the peace deal he aims to make. Read full article

Donors hope to raise huge sums of money to help those fighting what they see as a drift toward authoritarianism, but without attracting unwanted White House attention. Read full article

The effort by Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inner circle to limit access to him helps explain why it took him more than three weeks to drop his re-election bid after his disastrous debate performance. Read full article

The New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said that his background doesn’t fit neatly into simple categories. Others say they’ve struggled with the same issue. Read full article

The Republican senator, who was on a preplanned family vacation, did not return to his state until 72 hours after the deadly disaster, which his office said was as quickly as possible. Read full article