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When Tim Walz and JD Vance square off as vice-presidential picks on Tuesday, it will be the biggest debate stage for both of the politicians who are newly becoming household [...]

Byline: Carter Sherman A man in a baseball cap strides through a field of corn. A woman in flannel turns and smiles, a line of trucks visible behind her. As [...]

Byline: Robert Tait in Washington Kamala Harris has called for an end to the Senate filibuster to make good on her pledge to restore the right to abortion through legislation. [...]

Byline: Guardian staff This Thursday, Kamala Harris will sit down for her first major interview since launching her presidential campaign after Joe Biden's dramatic departure from the race. It follows [...]

Byline: Arwa Mahdawi On 22 August 1964, a Black activist called Fannie Lou Hamer gave an iconic speech at the Democratic national convention (DNC), taking the party to task for [...]

Byline: Rachel Leingang Good morning. For today's newsletter, we're bringing you coverage of Kamala Harris's speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president courtesy of Rachel Leingang, in a preview of [...]

Byline: Lauren Gambino Tens of thousands of Democrats are expected to descend on Chicago this week for their party's convention, bubbling with a feeling few had anticipated: pure, unconfined joy. [...]

Byline: Guardian staff and agencies A Tunisian court has sentenced a number of potential presidential election candidates to prison and banned them from running for office, according to local media, [...]

Byline: Martin Pengelly The Republican vice-presidential nominee, JD Vance, claimed calling leading Democrats 'a bunch of childless cat ladies' was merely a 'sarcastic remark', as he attempted to deflect charges [...]

Byline: Martin Pengelly in Washington Democrats have a dangerous tendency to underestimate Donald Trump, warned Wesley Clark, a retired senior US general and former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. [...]

Byline: Archie Bland Good morning. In the week since Kamala Harris became the de facto Democratic nominee, the contest for the presidency has been transformed. Money has poured in, the [...]

Byline: Lauren Gambino in Washington This week the House passed a Republican-led resolution condemning Kamala Harris for her role in the Biden administration's handling of migration, part of a ramped [...]

Byline: Lauren Gambino and agencies Kamala Harris has said she is looking forward to 'formally accepting the [presidential] nomination' of the Democratic party after she earned enough support from delegates [...]

Byline: Alice Herman A Democratic party ticket led by Kamala Harris seems increasingly likely as scores of high-profile elected Democrats line up to endorse her for president in the wake [...]

Byline: Luca Ittimani Good afternoon. The US vice-president, Kamala Harris, is gaining momentum to take the Democratic party nomination for president following Joe Biden's historic decision to pull out of [...]

Byline: Robert Tait Joe Biden has reportedly become more open in recent days to hearing arguments that he should step aside as the Democratic presidential candidate after the party's two [...]

Byline: Adam Gabbatt in Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Republican national convention begins on Monday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with Donald Trump expected to be officially nominated as the Republican party's candidate for [...]

Byline: Rachel Leingang After a debate that Joe Biden mumbled his way through, commentators on cable news networks pondered what could happen next. Could there be a contested Democratic convention? [...]

Byline: Martin Pengelly in Washington Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent senator and former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, announced on Monday that he will run for a fourth six-year [...]

Byline: Lili Bayer block-time published-time 5.28pm BST As candidates prepare for the debate, in a reminder that the real decision-making about who will become the next European Commission president is [...]

Byline: Editorial In chaos theory, the flapping of butterfly wings can cause a hurricane on the other side of the world. This weekend, Ukraine experienced a butterfly moment. Donald Trump's [...]

Byline: George Chidi South Carolina Republicans will pick their candidate for president Saturday in the 'first in the South' primary. Former president Donald Trump faces his former UN ambassador, Nikki [...]

Byline: Maya Yang block-time published-time 1.52pm GMT Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis warned that if Donald Trump becomes the Republican presidential nominee, then Republicans are 'going to [...]

Byline: Chris Stein block-time published-time 1.54pm GMT House Republicans head to US-Mexico border to push immigration crackdown Good morning, US politics blog readers. The GOP has made keeping immigrants out [...]

Byline: David Smith in Simi Valley, California Tourists posed for photos beside the presidential seal, peered inside the cockpit, studied the nuclear football and gazed at a desk where a [...]

Byline: Richard Luscombe in Miami Covid-19 deaths are inevitable in Florida, Democrats are warning, after rightwing Republican governor Ron DeSantis joined the state's controversial surgeon general in urging residents to [...]

Byline: Matthew Cantor Chris Christie digs Coldplay. Cornel West is into Coltrane. And Vivek Ramaswamy, the pharmaceutical magnate whose net worth is approaching $1bn, has found a kindred spirit in [...]

Byline: Nick Robins-Early Tim Scott, a senator from South Carolina, formally announced his candidacy in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. One of an increasing number of nominees [...]

Byline: Joan E Greve in Manchester, New Hampshire About 45 minutes into his New Hampshire town hall, Tim Scott said he needed to reveal a secret to the Republican voters [...]

Byline: Lauren Gambino in Washington Joe Biden has formally launched his re-election campaign, asking Americans to give him another four years to finish what he started. The president, famously nostalgic, [...]

Byline: Maya Yang The Republican National Committee 's chairperson has said that all GOP primary candidates should sign a pledge promising to support the eventual party nominee if they wish [...]

Byline: Martin Pengelly in New York In a new biography, the Utah senator and former US presidential nominee Mitt Romney will reportedly consider the Republican party's 'slide toward authoritarianism' and [...]

Archive: CSPAN, Fox News, CBS Send your questions and feedback to podcasts@theguardian.com Help support the Guardian by going to theguardian.com/supportpodcasts Kevin McCarthy faces mutiny over speakership: Politics Weekly America [...]

Byline: David Smith in Washington Donald Trump, the former US president, is making a third consecutive run for the White House. But there is a job vacancy this time: his [...]

Byline: Martin Pengelly in New York In January 2020, the rightwing Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton said he would vote to acquit Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial because despite [...]

Byline: Martin Pengelly in New York In a new book, the former US ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland defends his conduct around Donald Trump's first impeachment, derides Democrats [...]

Byline: Martin Pengelly Amid questions over his recovery from a stroke and demands he release his medical records, John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Pennsylvania, asked supporters [...]

Byline: Chris Stein in Washington block-time published-time 1.50pm BST Good morning, US politics blog readers. It might be hard to believe, but the midterms are about to get even more [...]

Byline: Sam Levine and Chris Stein A bipartisan group of senators reached a deal on Wednesday to reform a federal law and prevent a future presidential candidate from overturning the [...]

Byline: Richard Luscombe Democrats need to 'get up off our rear ends' and work to bring down prices and runaway inflation, or face wipeout in November's midterm elections, the Massachusetts [...]

Byline: Kim Willsher In the unexpected clash between an anti-immigration French politician and a sporting hero whose parents emigrated to France, the final result was clear: Zemmour 0 -- Zidane [...]

Byline: Martin Pengelly in New York Deciding to pick the inexperienced and extreme Sarah Palin as his running mate -- a choice many say facilitated the rise of Donald Trump, [...]

Byline: Kim Willsher in Paris One of the world's leading makers of pressure washers and steam cleaners has formally asked French politicians not to use its name to score political [...]

Byline: Michael Cornfield We're having problems with the internet and big tech, principally Alphabet (Google/YouTube), Amazon, Apple and Facebook. The government has taken note. Executives from these four corporate giants [...]

Byline: Ben Jacobs in Reno, Nevada Donald Trump, who has long suggested without evidence there is voter fraud in the United States, explicitly accused Democrats in Nevada in engaging in [...]

Byline: Alan Yuhas On Friday and Saturday, after the release of an 11-year-old recording that revealed Donald Trump boasting about his advances on a married woman and his desire to [...]

Byline: Alan Yuhas block-time published-time 2.15pm BST Tapper asks Palin about her former running-mate, Senator John McCain, who was caught on tape this week saying that Trump has turned his [...]

Byline: Dan Roberts and Ben Jacobs in Fort Washington, Maryland, and Sabrina Siddiqui in Detroit Republican leaders fought to restore confidence in their process for picking a presidential nominee on [...]

Byline: Sabrina Siddiqui in Rochester, New Hampshire Seven years ago, Hillary Clinton set foot in New Hampshire as an unexpected underdog. Coming off a stunning loss in the Iowa caucuses, [...]