Closing summary
In a speech in Chicago, Joe Biden embraced the term “Bidenomics”, arguing that Americans’ livelihoods have improved under his watch, and will get even better if he is elected to another four years. Meanwhile, the inquiry into Donald Trump continues, with Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger set to speak with investigators from special counsel Jack Smith’s office today, though the former president’s trial over the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago may wind up being delayed.
Here’s what else happened today:
Extreme heat and poor air quality are affecting millions across the United States. Follow our live blog for the latest.
Biden mixed up Iraq and Ukraine in comments before arriving in Chicago. This is not the first time this has happened for him, or for George W Bush.
Tommy Tuberville, Alabama’s Republican senator, tried to take credit for an infrastructure bill he refused to support. The president was not having it.
German chancellor Olaf Scholz sounds pretty confident Biden will be re-elected.
Voters in Delaware may next year have the chance to elect the first transgender lawmaker ever to serve in Congress.
In other election news, a man who was jailed for years as a child only to later be exonerated in one of the highest-profile wrongful conviction cases in the United States may soon be joining the New York city council:
Yusef Salaam, who as a child was part of a group of teenagers wrongly accused, convicted and imprisoned for the rape of a woman jogging in New York’s Central Park, has declared victory in a Democratic primary for a city council seat in New York – giving him a very good chance of representing a Harlem district as an elected official.
Salaam faced two veteran politicians, New York state assembly members Al Taylor, 65, and Inez Dickens, 73, in the race for a seat representing part of the majority-Black uptown Manhattan neighborhood. The incumbent, democratic socialist Kristin Richard Jordan, dropped out of the race in May but remained on the ballot.
The contest was taking place more than two decades after Salaam and four other men – then known as the Central Park Five, now often called the Exonerated Five – were cleared of the crime using DNA evidence.
It was one of the city’s most notorious and racially fraught crimes, inflamed when Donald Trump, then best known as a flamboyant real estate mogul in the city and later to become US president, took out newspaper ads calling for the death penalty for the five.
