McCarthy says hard-right Republican campaign to oust him was ‘personal’ – as it happened

This blog is now closed. You can read our stories on today's events at the links below:

• Full story: McCarthy ousted by hard-right Republicans
• Who is Matt Gaetz, the congressman behind McCarthy's overthrow
• Key takeaways from McCarthy's historic removal as speaker

In brief comments to reporters after meeting with Republican lawmakers, Kevin McCarthy sounded fatalistic about surviving the motion to remove him as speaker of the House brought by far-right insurgents.

If five Republicans go with Democrats, then I'm out," McCarthy said.

Joe Biden's son Hunter is set to be arraigned in a Delaware court on Tuesday in a politically fraught case that could unfold in the heat of the US president's 2024 re-election campaign.

Hunter, 53, the first child of a sitting president to be indicted, is expected to plead not guilty to unlawfully possessing a gun as an illegal drug user and lying about his drug use on a background check form when he bought a Colt Cobra revolver in 2018.