Why the Democrats Are Funding My Far-Right Opponent  —  They said Trump was a threat to democracy.  Now they are they propping up my MAGA challenger.  —  Tomorrow I'm facing off against John Gibbs in the Republican primary for Michigan's Third Congressional District.  The race is close.

Trump's Lawyers Are Preparing Legal Defenses Against Criminal Charges  —  According to internal communications reviewed by Rolling Stone, Trump's team is “quietly” planning for criminal charges as they wait for the Justice Department to make its move  —  Donald Trump's lawyers …

Arizona 2022: Dead Heat in Republican Gubernatorial Nomination; Masters With 18-Point Lead in for US Senate Nomination  —  Home Polls Arizona 2022: Dead Heat in Republican Gubernatorial Nomination; Masters With 18-Point Lead in for US Senate Nomination  —  The final Emerson College Polling survey …

Pelosi expected to visit Taiwan, Taiwanese and US officials say  —  (CNN)US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to visit Taiwan as part of her tour of Asia, according to a senior Taiwanese government official and a US official, despite warnings from Biden administration officials …

A former Kremlin adviser is hospitalized in Europe.  —  Anatoly Chubais, who resigned as a top Kremlin adviser shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, was hospitalized on Sunday in a western European country in critical condition with the symptoms of a rare neurological disorder.

Trans cheerleader, 25, is given assault citation after ‘choking out’ teammate, 17, who called her a ‘man with a penis’ at cheer camp as video taken afterwards shows attacker saying ‘I barely touched her’  — Averie Chanel Medlock, 25, was booted from the Ranger College cheerleading camp …

Lessons From Joe Manchin's March to Victory  —  About 16 months passed between President Joe Biden's March 31, 2021, proposal for an “American Jobs Plan” and July 27, 2022, when Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin struck a deal for a stripped-down climate, health care, and tax reform bill.

The Kamala Conundrum  —  Political news rarely gets much grimmer than it did for Joe Biden on July 26, when he was greeted by a surprise poll showing that, were he to run again in a contested primary in New Hampshire, he might command less than one-fifth of the vote.

Trump Sides with Russia Over Brittney Griner  —  The former president blasted the U.S. government's attempt to free the WNBA star imprisoned in Russia for cannabis possession  —  Former President Donald Trump sounds like he wants WNBA player Brittney Griner to stay in a Russian prison.

Nicholas Kristof Returns to The Times  —  The journalist who first started here in 1984 and began writing columns for us in 2001 returns to Times Opinion.  Read more in this note from Opinion Editor Kathleen Kingsbury.  —  In his “farewell” column before running for governor of Oregon …

Michigan secretary of state: Attempts to block election certification will be ‘futile’  —  Lansing — Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says her office will not tolerate any effort to obstruct the certification of Tuesday's primary election based on “partisan games” or “baseless lies.”

Threat of protests, violent escalation stirs panic in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces erected concrete barriers on Monday ahead of counter-protests planned by Shiite political rivals against an influential cleric whose followers have staged a parliament sit-in for a third day.

How Some Parents Changed Their Politics in the Pandemic  —  They were once Democrats and Republicans.  But fears for their children in the pandemic transformed their thinking, turning them into single-issue voters for November's midterms.  —  ORINDA, Calif. — They waved signs that read “Defeat the mandates” and “No vaccines.”

Fit to Print?  UNC's Settlement with Nikole Hannah-Jones is Bad News  —  A reporter who hasn't dreamt of one day writing for the New York Times is a rare bird.  “I'll start with my local newspaper,” they tell themselves.  “Then I'll move on to a statewide paper, before making a name for myself at something with a national readership.

States may revive abortion laws from a time when women couldn't vote  —  When Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, it invalidated antiabortion laws in many states.  Now that the Supreme Court has struck it down, these states face questions about whether and how the old laws will take effect again.

Did Biden Just Boost U.S. Tech — or Fund a Bunch of Solyndras?  —  The White House and influential lawmakers in both parties are celebrating a big win on tiny chips.  New legislation passed by Congress will give about $52 billion in grants to some of the world's largest and richest computer chip makers …

Bill Russell, NBA great and Celtics legend, dies at 88  —  BOSTON (AP) — Bill Russell, the NBA great who anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years — the last two as the first Black head coach in any major U.S. sport — and marched for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr., died Sunday.