PRESIDENT Joseph R. Biden’s election campaign last month outraised and outspent his challenger Donald Trump, according to disclosures published on Saturday that showed the president’s coffers initially swelling even after a disastrous debate performance.

The main campaign account for Mr. Biden, a Democrat, took in $64 million in June and spent $59 million, largely on campaign ads, ending the month with $95 million in the bank, according to a filing submitted to the Federal Election Commission.

Republican Mr. Trump’s main account reported raising $21 million in June and spending about $10 million, while having $128 million in cash at the close of the month.

Mr. Biden, 81, raised more than $5 million in the three days following his June 27 debate against Mr. Trump, 78, in which the president stammered throughout and failed to energetically challenge Trump’s attacks, which included numerous false claims.

But this month Mr. Biden has faced a wave of calls from Democratic lawmakers to bow out of the race, and his fundraising has reportedly sagged so far in the month.

Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump have been locked in a tight race in national polls, though Mr. Trump has led in several polls in battleground states that could determine the winner of the Nov. 5 presidential election.

Since early July, 35 congressional Democrats have publicly called on Mr. Biden to end his re-election bid, with many citing his advanced age and difficulties on the debate stage. Several Biden fundraising events are reportedly on hold as some big-money donors have urged Mr. Biden to bow out.

Should Mr. Biden exit the race, control of his campaign’s funds could potentially pass to his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, should she become the Democratic nominee. Alternately, Mr. Biden could transfer his war chest to the Democratic Party, which is already a major fundraiser for his re-election effort and reported raising $39 million with its main fundraising group June.

The main fundraising account for Mr. Trump’s Republican Party raised $67 million during the month.

Mr. Trump had outraised Mr. Biden in May, when the former president’s supporters stepped up donations in the run-up to his May 30 conviction on business fraud charges, a case that Trump has decried, without evidence, as politically motivated.

The largest super PAC supporting Mr. Trump, known as MAGA, Inc., reported raising over $22 million during the month, including $5 million contributions by hotelier Robert Bigelow and by Linda McMahon, a former professional wrestling entrepreneur.

On Mr. Biden’s side, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman gave $3 million to FF Pac, a super PAC backing the president’s re-election effort, a separate filing with the Federal Election Commission showed. — Reuters

A GLOBAL tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday.

“We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines,” it said in the blog.

A software update by global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, one of the largest operators in the industry, triggered systems problems that grounded flights, forced broadcasters off air and left customers without access to services such as healthcare or banking.

“While the percentage was small, the broad economic and societal impacts reflect the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that run many critical services,” Microsoft said in its blog post.

CrowdStrike has helped develop a solution that will help Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure accelerate a fix, Microsoft said, adding that it was working with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, sharing information about the effects Microsoft was seeing across the industry.

The air travel industry was recovering on Saturday from the outage that caused thousands of flights to be canceled, leaving passengers stranded or grappling with hours of delays as airports and airlines were caught up in the IT outage. — Reuters

BEIJING — Two tropical cyclones will bring gales and heavy rain to China’s eastern seaboard this week, with the first expected to make landfall on Sunday, after deadly flash floods struck the country’s interior over the weekend.

Prapiroon, named after a Thai rain god, is expected to make landfall in China’s southernmost island province of Hainan on Sunday night as a strong tropical storm, the first tropical cyclone to hit China this year, national forecasters said.

Formed in the South China Sea, Prapiroon’s center was about 275 km (170 miles) southeast of the Hainan city of Wanning as of 7 a.m. (2300 GMT).

The maximum wind speed near its center will be up to 30 meters per second (110 kph) when Prapiroon lands, the National Meteorological Center said, predicting torrential rains in Hainan and along the coast of Guangdong, China’s most populous province.

Later this week, Gaemi, which was about 530 km (330 miles) northeast of Philippine capital Manila on Sunday morning, is expected to brush past the northern tip of Taiwan, then make landfall in China as a typhoon, packing wind speeds of up to 50 meters per second (180 kph), according to Chinese forecasters.

Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration said it expected Gaemi to be closest to the island on Wednesday and Thursday, bringing heavy rain.

Extreme rainfall has hit China’s southern, central and eastern parts in a flood season that started earlier than usual this year. Record rainfall pounded southern China in April to June, while in the north, dry weather parched fields and threatened crops.

In the northwestern province of Shaanxi, a highway bridge collapsed on Friday amid torrential rain, killing at least 12, with 31 people and 18 vehicles still missing.

In Sichuan province in the southwest, rescuers had retrieved eight bodies and pulled four people to safety by 8 p.m. on Saturday, after more than 30 went missing amid flash floods. — Reuters