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Kamala Harris, whom delegates to the Democratic Party convention officially elected on Monday as the party's presidential candidate, yesterday introduced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential candidate during a rally in Philadelphia.more

More than $1m (£782k) of cocaine has washed up on a beach in Florida Keys during the recent Storm Debby. US Border Patrol said a "good Samaritan" found the packages containing 32 kg (79 lbs) of the drug and contacted authorities.more

As head of the National Space Council (NSC), current vice-president Kamala Harris has made herself known as an advocate of sending astronauts to the moon again to build a base there. Like Donald Trump, she sees space as another space of global competition with China, assesses the Politico website.more

Several U.S. personnel are believed to be injured following a suspected rocket attack on U.S. and coalition forces at al-Asad airbase in Iraq, a defense official confirmed to NBC News. Additional details were not available as base staff members are conducting a post-attack damage assessment, the official said.more

Compared with older generations, Generation X and Millennials in the US have a higher risk of developing 17 cancers, suggests a new report published in The Lancet Public Health.more

Exclusive Ipsos survey for The Evening Standard found 50 per cent of adults in Britain would prefer to see Democrat Ms Harris as US president, compared to 21 per cent for Republican Donald Trump.more

Christopher Dunn of Missouri walked out of a St Louis prison after 34 years when his murder conviction was overturned. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of applying for parole.more

Kamala Harris, the likely Democratic candidate in the November US presidential elections, is considering only three candidates for the position of vice president. These people are Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Bloomberg revealed.more

Real sanctions against the Kremlin, a strengthening of Nato, a lend-lease for Ukraine and the lifting of restrictions on the use of US weapons in its war against Russia - according to former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, these are all elements of Donald Trump's plan for Ukraine should the Republican win the presidential election.more

There are some doubts as to whether Donald Trump was shot or injured by a fragment of a teleprompter - the AFP agency reported yesterday, citing the words of FBI Director Chris Wray. He testified on Wednesday in the US Congress before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.more

US aerospace and defence conglomerate Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to criminal fraud related to the fatal 737 Max crashes. It also paid a fine of $487.2 million.more

‘America is at a turning point, it must choose between hope and hate, between moving forward and moving backward, democracy is in your hands,’ - announced President Joe Biden yesterday in a speech to the nation in which he explained the reasons for his resignation from running for the US presidency.more

US Vice President and informal Democratic candidate for President of the United States Kamala Harris started her election campaign yesterday. She took part in her first campaign rally, which took place in Wisconsin.more

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US Vice President Kamala Harris travelled to Wilmington, Delaware yesterday to meet campaign staff. Harris announced, among other things, that she would fight for women's right to abortion, as well as strengthen the middle class. At least 2,579 Democratic delegates have declared their support for her as the party's candidate in the US presidential election.more

Questioned by the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee yesterday, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle stated that the attempted assassination of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was the agency's "biggest operational failure" in decades.more

Sandra Hemme was 20 years old when she was found guilty in November 1980 of killing library employee Patricia Jeschke of St. Joseph, Missouri. She was sentenced to life imprisonment. On Friday, she was released after 43 years in prison - reports the BBC.more

President Joe Biden, 81,'s decision to withdraw from the race for a second term in the White House was unexpected after weeks of resisting calls from many Democrats for him to step down. According to mainstream American media, it created chaos and shock.more

I'm running to be president of all of America, not just half of it; it's time to bridge our internal divisions - declared yesterday former US President Donald Trump, accepting the nomination of the Republican Party for the office of head of state during the electoral convention in Milwaukee.more

US President Joe Biden has succumbed to the Covid-19 infection and is experiencing mild symptoms of the disease, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre announced yesterday. Biden was forced to interrupt his election campaign in Las Vegas and return home to Delaware.more

The deputy prime minister has dismissed comments by Donald Trump's running mate for US vice president that UK under Labour might be the first "truly Islamist" country with nuclear weapons.more

The United States Secret Service increased protection surrounding former President Donald Trump prior to Saturday’s assassination attempt after receiving information about a possible threat from Iran made towards the former president. more

New Labour UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has started to build a relationship with Donald Trump in case he wins the US presidential election and intends to deepen his alliance with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on the issue of immigration, despite the fact that both are politically not close to him, according to media reports.more

Elon Musk has stated that he intends to donate around USD 45 million per month to the America PAC group supporting Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the Wall Street Journal wrote today. This will be one of the largest donations from an individual to a US campaign.more

The perpetrator of the attack on Donald Trump acted alone and there is no indication that he had mental problems. So far, nothing has been found indicating ideological motives, FBI representatives said on Sunday during a briefing. Meanwhile, AP reports that the attacker was spotted by Secret Service officers just before firing the shot.more