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Summary
Voters are waiting for Kamala Harris to announce the name of her running mate: the announcement is expected on Tuesday, but the campaign has said previously that it’s deadline was 7 August – Wednesday. Elsewhere, Donald Trump is calling the stock market dive the “Kamala crash” and Joe Biden is about to meet with his national security team in the situation room at the White House, with Harris also attending, as tensions rise again in the Middle East.
Here’s where things stand:
Top Democratic US senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, has written to a lawyer about his client’s providing yet more travel on his private jet for US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas which has not been declared to the public. The client? Harlan Crow.
Kamala Harris is poised to secure the Democratic presidential nomination. Harris’s nomination will become official after a five-day round of online balloting by Democratic national convention delegates ends on Monday night and the party announces the results.
Several US personnel were injured in a suspected rocket attack at a military base in Iraq, US defence officials said Monday, in what has been a recent uptick in strikes on American forces by Iranian-backed militias.
Biden and Harris were briefed on the “threats posed by Iran and its proxies”. Biden held crisis talks with his national security team as fears grow that an Iranian counterattack on Israel could spark an all-out war in the Middle East.
Harris has narrowed her search for a vice-presidential running mate to two finalists, Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro and Minnesota governor Tim Walz, Reuters reports, citing unnamed sources familiar.
The US supreme court has declined to halt Trump’s upcoming sentencing for his conviction in state court in New York on felony charges involving hush money paid to an adult film star, Stormy Daniels, and a related gag order until after the 5 November election.
A Virginia man was charged with making violent online threats against US vice-president Kamala Harris days after she began her US presidential campaign last month. The man was charged in federal court after saying online that he could resort to burning the US vice-president alive. FBI agents seized a rifle and a handgun from his home.
Harris has crept just ahead of her Republican rival, Donald Trump, in the 2024 presidential election, according to some influential new polls. The race is neck and neck, but Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, now leads Trump by 1.4 points in a national polling average presented yesterday by Nate Silver in his Silver Bulletin newsletter.
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