Third-party presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has suspended his long-shot bid for the White House, throwing his weight instead behind the Republican candidate, former United States President Donald Trump. Friday’s announcement was the culmination of weeks of speculation, as Kennedy receded in the polls. Still, he offered a message of defiance, denouncing his campaign’s “naysayers”. “We proved them wrong,” Kennedy said at a campaign stop in Phoenix,...

US vice president pledges support for Israel as she accepts the Democratic Party nomination. Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, has become the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to accept the presidential nomination of a major party in the United States. If elected, she would be the first female US president. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Harris...

Chicago, Illinois – As balloons dropped from the ceiling of a packed United Center in Chicago, row upon row of Democratic Party faithful rose to their feet, clapping and shouting out with joy. It was Thursday night, and Kamala Harris had just delivered the closing speech of this year’s Democratic National Convention. The atmosphere was ecstatic: The Democrats in the audience were fired up, and many credited Harris...