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The United States swept the men's and women's flag football world titles ahead of the sport's addition to the Olympic program for the 2028 Games in Los AngelesDarrell Housh" Doucette had an army of internet trolls ready to ram his own words down his throat after he publicly declared that he and the rest of the men's USA national flag football team were betting on themselves to retain their roster spots even if challenged by NFL stars who want to join the squad for their sport's debut as an Olympic event in 2028.Those trolls are going to have to keep waiting after Doucette fired six touchdown passes to four different receivers to lead the US to a 53-21 victory over Austria to claim an unprecedented fifth consecutive flag football world championship. Continue reading...

Recently formed Tennessee Drivers Union to take action at city airport as wave of Labor Day tourists is expectedHundreds of ride-share drivers for Uber and Lyft in Nashville, Tennessee, have voted to begin a strike on Friday 30 August at Nashville international airport, warning of ruined vacations" as the city prepares for a wave of tourists celebrating the Labor Day holiday weekend.The recently formed Tennessee Drivers Union is taking action to raise awareness of their demands for improvements to their pay and working conditions. Continue reading...

LeBron James and Chris Christie were among those to pay tribute to Columbus Blue Jackets forward Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew Gaudreau, who died Thursday

Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss want ex-lawyer to turn over properties and Benz over owed defamation case paymentTwo Georgia election workers asked a federal judge on Friday to give them control over Rudy Giuliani's assets as they sought to enforce a $148m defamation judgment the former New York City mayor owes them.According to a court filing on Friday, lawyers for Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss want a court to give them control over Giuliani's New York City apartment, estimated to be worth more than $5m, as well as his condominium in Palm Beach. They also want him to turn over personal property, including a 1980 Mercedes-Benz SL500, jewelry, luxury watches and sports memorabilia, including Yankees World Series rings and jerseys signed by Joe DiMaggio and Reggie Jackson. Continue reading...

The far-right AfD may win a state election for the first time this weekend. That should set alarm bells ringing in Berlin and beyondIn 2021, as Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic party (SPD) unexpectedly triumphed in a knife-edge federal election, one of its most stellar results was achieved in the east German state of Brandenburg. Ina regional contest anticipated to be a battle between the centre-right and the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD), a promise to raise the minimum wage helped the SPD win a direct mandate in everyconstituency.That seems much longer than three years ago. On Sunday, two high-stakes regional polls will take place in Germany's east, one in Saxony and the other in Thuringia. Then, on 22 September, it will be Brandenburg's turn. In each contest, the AfD has a good chance of winning, a feat it has never managed before in a state election. On issues such as migration, the politics of both the Thuringia and the Saxony branches of the AfD have been singled out as particularly extreme and anti-constitutional by German intelligence services.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

The Harris-Walz ticket has transformed the presidential race. But on the ground it's clear: Trump could still winOn 5 November, people around the globe will tune in to watch the world election. It's not a world" election in the sense of the World Cup - a football championship in which many nations actively participate - but it's much more than a World Series, the curiously named baseball championship that involves only teams from North America. This year has been called the biggest election year in history. By the end of it, something approaching half the world's adult population will have had the possibility to put a cross against a name on a ballot paper. But the US presidential election is the year's big match.Why? Because this is a genuine democratic election that will result in a single person holding exceptionally concentrated executive power in what is still the world's most powerful country. It's a highly watchable soap opera, with a classic plot familiar to all. And one of this year's two contenders, Donald Trump, is a danger to his own country and the world. If the election" of the president of China, the world's other superpower, were a genuine democratic choice, that event would perhaps be as consequential. But it isn't, so it isn't. Russia had a presidential election" earlier this year, but at issue was only the size of Vladimir Putin's declared majority.Timothy Garton Ash is a historian, political writer and Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Ex-president sits with ex-Democrat Tulsi Gabbard at town hall in Wisconsin to discuss reproductive rightsAt a town hall event in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Thursday night, Donald Trump and the former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, now a Trump campaign surrogate, attempted to pitch themselves to the crowd as supporters of reproductive rights.Gabbard, who moderated the event after endorsing the former president earlier this week, opened the town hall with emotional remarks about her experience with in vitro fertilization. The comments came shortly after Trump said in an NBC interview that he would make the government or insurance companies pay for IVF if he is elected, although it is unclear how he would accomplish that or if he is serious about the proposal given the pivotal role he played in overturning Roe v Wade. Continue reading...

Wisconsin city - already home to world's tallest wooden building - announces proposal for tower with 55 floorsThe city of Milwaukee in Wisconsin is currently home to the tallest timber building in the world, but this summer the city announced a new proposal to build an even taller one.Designed by the Vancouver-based architecture firm, Michael Green Architecture, the tower, once completed, would become the tallest mass timber structure in the world with 55 floors -about 30 floors taller than the current tallest timber building in the world, also in Wisconsin, known as the Ascent. Continue reading...

Harris was competent, personable and forceful - but didn't have much to say about abortion or GazaHow much of an incentive does Kamala Harris really have to lay out a thorough policy agenda? With fewer than 70 days until the general election, the newly official Democratic presidential nominee has exited her party's Chicago convention riding a a wave of tight but improving poll numbers and tremendous party goodwill.Her move to the top of the ticket has prompted waves of enthusiasm and barely concealed relief, as young voters and weary Democrats greeted the happy prospect of an election campaign that was, at last, not between Biden and Trump. The shift of candidates initiated a new shift in the campaign's voice, with a more playful, irreverent and optimistic turn coming to characterize the Democrats' public messaging. When the vibes are this good, few people ask about specifics.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

Live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as Jacqui Smith says four-day compressed hours could help people workThe eurozone inflation fall means September's rate cut is a go" for the European Central Bank (ECB), according to Melanie Debono, senior Europe economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, a consultancy.For the ECB these data are broadly in line with the June expectations for the third quarter on the headline, but core inflation is looking somewhat stronger than the central bank expected. Still we think a rate cut by the ECB in two weeks' time is a decent bet.Eurozone inflation is now just a touch above target, making it difficult for the bank to justify its current extremely restrictive monetary stance. Interest rates were raised to their current level when inflation was over 5% last year and wage growth figures are rolling over.Services is expected to have the highest annual rate in August (4.2%, compared with 4.0% in July), followed by food, alcohol & tobacco (2.4%, compared with 2.3% in July), non-energy industrial goods (0.4%, compared with 0.7% in July) and energy (-3.0%, compared with 1.2% in July).Eurozone inflation slowed to 2.2% in August from 2.6% in July, driven by energy price declines. This marked the slowest rate of price growth for more than three years and makes a rate cut at the European Central Bank's upcoming September policy meeting more likely.However, the higher rate of core inflation and continually tight labour market will present risk factors to implementing looser monetary policy. Continue reading...

Delano has long recorded some of the highest gun violence rates in the state. Mercedies Escalante is trying to change that

Reduction of about a fifth of workforce in two subdivisions part of plan to slash up to $3bn in costs by end of 2025Shell is to cut hundreds of jobs from its oil and gas exploration operation in the latest move by the chief executive, Wael Sawan, to slash up to $3bn (2.3bn) in costs by the end of next year.The energy company is to cut about a fifth of its workforce in two subdivisions of its oil and gas business responsible for exploration strategy and developing its oil and gas finds. Continue reading...

Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama and Ohio want to scare off voters of color and naturalized citizens, activists sayEarlier this week, Texas governor Greg Abbott sent out a press release with an eye-popping headline: his state had removed more than 1 million people from its voter rolls since 2021. Among them were 6,500 non-citizens. A little under a third of those non-citizens had some sort of voting history in Texas, where there were nearly 18 million registered voters as of March, and were referred to the attorney general for further investigation.Two days later, the governor's office quietly revised the statement posted online. Instead of saying 6,500 non-citizens had been removed, the updated version said 6,500 potential non-citizens had been removed. Renae Eze, an Abbott spokesperson, said that the statement sent out to an email list of reporters on Monday contained the phrasing potential non-citizens". She did not respond to a query on why the version that was publicly posted initially omitted the word potential". Continue reading...

During a town hall campaign event in Wisconsin, Donald Trump told the ex-Democrat and campaign surrogate Tulsi Gabbard that the government or insurance companies would pay for in vitro fertilisation treatment for Americans if he was elected. 'We want to produce babies,' he told Gabbard, who shared her personal story about fertility treatments. The former president did not elaborate on how he would fund the measure, and it was unclear how he would accomplish it or if he was serious about the proposal, given the pivotal role he played in overturning Roe v Wade. In response to a question on job insecurity, Trump also made the false claim that illegal immigrants were taking 'about 107%' of jobs

Bestselling author, a trained psychologist, describes debilitating effects of being related to the former presidentIn a new memoir, Mary L Trump, niece of Donald Trump, writes of being pushed to despair, and ketamine therapy, by her uncle's victory in the 2016 presidential election, his chaotic, far-right administration, and his refusal to leave national politics despite his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020.I'm here because five years ago, I lost control of my life," Mary Trump writes, describing ketamine treatment undertaken in December 2021. I'm here because the world has fallen away and I don't know how to find my way back. Continue reading...

The president's refusal to appoint a new PM from the left displays breathtaking arrogance - and undermines our democracyAfter the electoral turbulence of June and July, few in France imagined that we would be heading into September without a new prime minister appointed to reflect the results of last month's parliamentary elections.When Emmanuel Macron unexpectedly called snap elections in June, the prevailing wisdom was that the far right would win. Many of us even suspected that Macron favoured such an outcome so that Marine Le Pen would be tainted by her party's exercise of power and therefore less likely to win the presidency in 2027. Whether that was his plan or not, calling the vote was a dangerous gamble that took an unexpected turn, putting an ad hoc leftwing coalition in first place with the largest number of votes, but without the numbers to build a working majority in parliament.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

He may be the richest man in the world - but that doesn't mean we're powerless to stop himElon Musk is rapidly transforming his enormous wealth - he's the richest person in the world - into a huge source of unaccountable political power that's now backing Trump and other authoritarians around the world.Musk owns X, formerly known as Twitter. He publicly endorsed Donald Trump last month. Before that, Musk helped form a pro-Trump super political action committee. Meanwhile, the former US president has revived his presence on the X platform. Continue reading...

Trump's staffers filmed political footage at war graves - and allegedly shoved an army employee who tried to stop themThe tranquil majesty of Arlington national cemetery tends to bring forth civic virtues in Americans and eloquence in their leaders. Speaking there in 1985 above the graves of the fallen, Ronald Reagan observed that while we may imagine the deceased as old men, most were boys when they died, and they gave up two lives - the one they were living and the one they would have lived ... they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers ... They gave up everything for our country, for us. And all we can do is remember."Nowhere in that vast cemetery is Reagan's point driven home as poignantly as in section 60, which embraces those men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice at painfully young ages since 9/11. Here the dates on the simple headstones are within memory, the grief of loved ones is raw and visitors may witness acts of tenderness in response.Kevin Carroll served as a senior counselor to US secretary of homeland security John Kelly, and as a CIA and US Army officer Continue reading...

Carlos Alcaraz says he lost focus during his shock defeat by Botic van de Zandschulp, the world No 74, in the second round of the US Open on Thursday. Alcaraz admits he expectedvan de Zandschulp to give him more free points. The No 3 seed had his 15-match grand slam streak broken by the Dutchman. 'He played great ... I couldn't increase my level,' Alcaraz said.

Eagles coach Scott Lawrence has picked college talent - and crossovers from football and wrestling - in his squad to face Canada and Japan in new eventThe Pacific Nations Cup, in which the US men kick-off against Canada in Los Angeles on Saturday, is designed to improve playing standards among tier-two rugby nations. Next year's PNC will decide qualification for the 2027 World Cup in Australia but this year the US coach, Scott Lawrence, is also planning still further ahead, for 2031 and the first Rugby World Cup on US soil.The way to build the 2031 World Cup team is to begin exposure now," Lawrence says, from the Olympic training centre in Chula Vista, California, where the women who won sevens bronze in Paris, Ilona Maher and all, made their own preparations. Continue reading...

Center who lit up Olympics cites threats to abortion rights and contraception in backing Democrat over Donald TrumpThe Democratic nominee for US president, Kamala Harris, picked up an endorsement from a key social media influencer: the Olympic rugby star Ilona Maher.I think it's going to be cool because there is an opportunity to have female representation and to change this country in a way that I think will benefit us," Maher told Sports Illustrated, in an interview accompanying a swimwear shoot which saw the 28-year-old center praised as a feminist trailblazer". Continue reading...

The rich world often waits too long to intervene. There's no doubt we have ways to keep everyone safe, if we have the will

In today's newsletter: Questions about policy shifts, Trump's attacks, and whether Joe Biden is up to the job Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. It has been 40 days since Joe Biden pulled out of the presidential race and, until last night, Kamala Harris was yet to sit down for a major interview. Alongside her vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz, she finally did so on CNN - and directly addressed some of the more difficult issues facing her campaign for the first time.Their interview with Dana Bash was not exactly riveting TV - but it did shed some light on the state of the race, and the turf where Harris would like the rest of the campaign to be fought. Today's newsletter runs you through what we learned - and why she probably won't mind if voters thought it was a bit boring. Here are the headlines.Health | Keir Starmer is on a collision course with the hospitality industry and political opponents after signalling plans for major curbs on outdoor smoking. The proposals, not denied by the prime minister, would potentially prohibit tobacco use outside pubs and restaurants, including on pavements.Israel-Gaza war | The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have said they carried out an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza aimed at armed assailants" trying to hijack it. But the charity that organised the aid said people killed in the strike were employees of the transport company it was working with.Environment | The UK government is considering making further commitments on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, likely to be announced at the UN climate summit this year. It is hoped the plan will help kickstart global ambitions on cutting emissions.Immigration and asylum | A Vietnamese man suffered a life-limiting stroke" after being rescued from a tiny hidden compartment in a lorry with six other people being smuggled into the UK. The group was packed so tightly inside a space the width of a human chest" that none could move their arms, a Home Office investigator has said.Health | People who catch up" on missed sleep at the weekend may have up to a 20% lower risk of heart disease compared with those who do not, according to a study. Continue reading...

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sat for their first interview together as the Democratic ticket, taking questions from CNN anchor Dana Bash. Harris spoke about her position on fracking, wanting a Republican candidate in her cabinet and how Joe Biden passed the baton to the now Democratic presidential candidate. Walz clarified previous statements he made about his military service before he was asked about the moment during the Democratic national convention when his son, Gus, was seen tearing up and saying: 'That's my dad'

Just like at the Democratic convention, the vice-president did enough to clear the bar and do herself no harmDonald Trump spent Thursday in Michigan raving about bacon, windmills, Al Capone, trans boxers, nuclear war and, of course, his crowd size. Weird! Kamala Harris and Tim Walz gave an interview on CNN that was ... radically normal.Just as she did a week ago at the Democratic national convention, the vice-president was comfortable and composed, solid and unspectacular, doing enough to clear the bar and doing herself no harm. She turned a much hyped first interview as nominee into a soon-to-be-forgotten pit stop along the campaign trail. Continue reading...

At the end of July, the TV news anchor turned rightwing politician Kari Lake won the Republican Senate primary in Arizona. She will face Democrat Ruben Gallego in November.So how will the Trump-inspired election denier do? Where does Kari Lake fit in with today's Republican party? And will her presence help or hinder Trump in that all-important border swing state?Jonathan Freedland speaks to Elaine Godfrey of the Atlantic to find out more about the Senate hopefulArchive: CBS News, 12 News, ABC 12, ABC 15, Fox News, CNN, NBC News Continue reading...

This blog is now closed. You can read our full story on the Harris-Walz interview on CNN here.Donald Trump's own platform could effectively ban [in vitro fertilization] and abortion nationwide", a spokesperson for Kamala Harris's campaign said in response to Trump's latest IVF comments.The Harris campaign statement continued:Because Trump overturned Roe v. Wade, IVF is already under attack and women's freedoms have been ripped away in states across the country. There is only one candidate in this race who trusts women and will protect our freedom to make our own health care decisions: Vice President Kamala Harris.Congratulations to Donald Trump for realizing that his position and his record on abortion are wildly unpopular, particularly with women who will decide this election.But rather than give him credit for a disingenuous and unserious proposal that contradicts his own GOP platform, we'll credit him for something he actually did: overturning Roe v Wade, ending abortion access for millions of women across the country, and jeopardizing reproductive freedom for all of us. Continue reading...

Democratic nominees talk to CNN's Dana Bash on Thursday about fracking, the US middle class and weapons of war'In a primetime spot on CNN Thursday evening, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sat for their first interview together as the Democratic ticket, taking questions from anchor Dana Bash on a range of important issues, including their plans for day 1 if they win the race, the approach to the war in Gaza, and how Joe Biden passed the baton.With just over two months until voters will head to the polls on 5 November - and even less time before some will mail in their ballots - the Democratic candidates for president and vice-president made good on a promise to speak more candidly about how they will tackle the US's most pressing problems. Continue reading...

The North Carolina resident, who was on a multi-day trip, was located by helicopter after reports of a missing hikerA solo backpacker has been found dead near a rugged and remote trail along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon national park, authorities in Arizona said Thursday.The National Park Service said the 60-year-old North Carolina resident was located by helicopter Wednesday along a route connecting Lower Tapeats and Deer Creek camps. The two sites are accessible from the north rim on a river bend about 29 miles (46.6km) north-west of Grand Canyon Village on the South Rim. Continue reading...

This live blog is now closed. We're covering the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz CNN interview in a standalone blog here:

Dan Evans and Jack Draper advanced, as did No 1 seeds Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner, but Katie Boulter was sent outIf you missed any of yesterday's results, by the way, you can catch up here:Tomas Machac has broken back against Sebastian Korda. The Czech is now serving at 4-3 down. And the first set of the day has - unsurprisingly - gone to Anna Kalinskaya, 6-2 against Anna Bondar. Continue reading...

Strongest official criticism yet over altercation with ex-president's staff during photo op at military cemetery

Arizona officials are investigating the death of Denise Prudhomme, 60, who was discovered by a colleagueOfficials in Arizona are investigating the death of a Wells Fargo employee who scanned into her office on a Friday morning and was found dead at her desk four days later.According to local outlets, authorities said 60-year-old Denise Prudhomme entered her Wells Fargo office building located on the 1100 block of West Washington Street in Tempe, Arizona, at 7am on 16 August. Continue reading...

ParalympicsGB won their first two golds of the 2024 Games in the pool thanks to swimmers Poppy Maskell and Tully KearneyCox's final is up at 2.50pm BST - she qualified for it in second place, but Caroline Groot of the Netherlands, who was fastest, set a new world record in the process.Earlier today, by the way, GB men dealt Germany a right tousing, beating them 76-55 in their first Group A game. Continue reading...

After July ruling that state's death penalty is legal, a man on death row has a week to decide how he will be executedA man on death row in South Carolina has until 6 September to decide how he would prefer to be executed by the state.South Carolina's prisons director has declared the state's supply of a lethal injection drug acceptable and said its electric chair was tested two months ago and its firing squad has the ammunition and training to carry out its first execution next month in more than 13 years, if needed. Continue reading...

The war in Gaza has become a breaking point for the rules-based international order. That is also true in other occupied territoriesThere is a rising, bloody Palestinian death toll in the West Bank after two days of Israeli attacks by helicopters, drones and ground forces. In July, the line between law and politics had been sharply drawn when the UN's top court - the international court of justice (ICJ) - declared that Israel's occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, is against international law and should end. Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that this was a decision of lies". He knows power flows from the barrel of a gun. Illegal Israeli acts in the occupied territories are hardening, mostly with complete impunity, into political developments.The war in Gaza has become a breaking point for the rules-based international order. That is also true in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel argues that it has to take action to protect itself from what it claims are attacks using Iranian-supplied arms. Yet bombingcivilians from the skies looks like a way of terrorising a people into submission - and it is increasing. Between 2020 and October 2023, six Palestinians in the area were killed in airstrikes. This week, the UN said that 136 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed in Israeli airstrikes since October 2023 - a sharp increase. These numbers are obviously dwarfed by the 40,000deadPalestinians in Gaza, with the majority of those identified being elderly people, children or women. Continue reading...

Internal justice department audit flagged 42 allegations from 2021-2023 requiring immediate attention' from FBIThe US justice department's office of inspector general said on Thursday the FBI failed to properly investigate some suspected child sexual abuse cases and did not report some allegations to state or social services agencies.A July 2021 report by the justice department inspector general, Michael Horowitz, uncovered widespread and dire errors by the FBI that allowed the onetime USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar to continue to abuse at least 70 more victims before he was finally arrested. Continue reading...

Universal Music says footage used in Minnesota featuring Abba songs and videos must be taken downAbba have demanded that Donald Trump stop using their music after the former US president played several of their songs and used footage of the group at a campaign rally.The Republican presidential candidate played hits including Money, Money, Money, The Winner Takes It All and Dancing Queen at his event in St Cloud, Minnesota, the US state with the highest Swedish population, on Tuesday, the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported. Continue reading...

Republican strategists irritated as ex-president posts another lewd reference to his presidential rival online

Trump is trying to complete the right's master plan. He must be stoppedYou can be forgiven for thinking Vice-President Kamala Harris's first attack ad against Donald Trump seems a little far-fetched. Launched this week, the television spot has all the hallmarks of a YouTube video promoting an internet conspiracy theory. There's the obligatory scary music and the baritone narrator warning about a mysterious manifesto with the kind of cartoonish name that a Bond villain would label his blueprint for global conquest: Project 2025.And yet, this isn't a Dr Evil send-up: Project 2025 is very real, it is absolutely Trump's agenda and it wasn't some slapdash screed that came out of nowhere. It is the culmination of the 50-year plot that our reporters at the Lever have uncovered in our new audio series Master Plan - a scheme first envisioned by the US supreme court justice who created the foundation for Citizens United and the modern era of corporate politics.David Sirota is a Guardian US columnist and an award-winning investigative journalist. He is an editor at large at Jacobin, and the founder of the Lever. He served as Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign speechwriter Continue reading...

Numbers surged after changes to the agricultural census. Advocates say that's not what they've seen on the groundEarlier this summer, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released data that suggested that, after years of decline, the number of Black farmers has grown to more than 45,000.This is in stark contrast to the dire situation of Black producers in the 1990s, when a New York Times article predicted their coming extinction; Black farm numbers had fallen below 20,000 in that decade. Continue reading...

As former president fails to land attacks against Harris campaign, advisers hope to capitalize on upcoming debateDonald Trump's campaign insists that they're pursuing multiple strategies against Kamala Harris, but the true picture that is emerging is that the Trump senior advisers' grand plan, for now, is to pray that the former US president has a good night at the presidential debate next month.The game plan, in other words, has become one of hoping that Trump wins the debate so they can regain momentum - a stunning approach that shows the serious predicament for Trump and his campaign as he struggles to find ways to land effective attacks against the vice-president just months before the election. Continue reading...

Dozens of families have lost loved ones to homicides in Delano, where most murders go unsolved

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Democratic presidential candidate will sit down with running mate Tim Walz and CNN's Dana Bash on ThursdayKamala Harris on Thursday will give her first major interview since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee in what is being seen as a key test of her credibility after a prolonged honeymoon that has seen her surge ahead of Donald Trump in opinion polls.She and her running mate, Tim Walz, will face CNN's Dana Bash in a pre-recorded event that was scheduled following some criticism of Harris's reluctance to expose herself to media scrutiny following her ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket last month in place of Joe Biden, who withdrew from the race on 21 July. Continue reading...