First Thing: Kamala Harris calls for ‘new generation of leadership’

VP addresses crowd from site of Trump's speech before deadly January 6 attack. Plus, a lost Maya city is found

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With the White House illuminated behind her, Kamala Harris asked the vanishing slice of undecided Americans to elect a new generation of leadership", likening Donald Trump to a petty tyrant" and recalling how he had stood in the very same spot nearly four years ago and, in a last-gasp effort to cling to power, helped incite the mob that stormed the US Capitol.

What was the focus of Harris's speech? The Democratic nominee's big speech mentioned Trump by name 24 times and Joe Biden only once. It confirmed that, even when Trump is not commander-in-chief, he still commands the American psyche.

Sorry, who did you mean to condemn? Responding to the Trump rally opener calling Puerto Rico an island of garbage", Joe Biden got into hot water himself: The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters' ... his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American. It's totally contrary to everything we've done, everything we've been." The president later clarified that he had been condemning the demonization of Latinos, not calling Trump supporters garbage. The Trump rally on Sunday in New York had opened with a series of racist remarks about Puerto Rico, Latinos, Jews and Palestinians.

Why did South Carolina pause executions for 13 years? Faced with growing backlash, pharmaceutical companies stopped selling lethal injection drugs to the state, but last year South Carolina passed a shield law to conceal the identity of suppliers.