Joe Biden vowed to unite a deeply divided America and lead the country to “overcome this season of darkness” as he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday evening, a long-sought moment that came more than 30 years after he first ran for president.
Barack Obama accused Donald Trump of treating the US presidency like "one more reality show", in a withering speech to the Democratic convention.
Democratic nominee urges voters to reject Donald Trump and says: ‘We can do better and deserve so much more’
The Democratic convention has released excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s speech tonight, and the 2016 presidential nominee does not mince her words about her former rival.
Former US President Barack Obama has sharply criticised what he described as Republican attempts at voter suppression in a speech at civil rights leader John Lewis's funeral.
Twitter accounts of prominent figures, including Biden, Musk and Obama, compromised in major hack.
Accounts of Uber and Apple also appear to have been compromised as part of scam instructing followers to transfer cryptocurrency
Democrats on Tuesday captured the House of Representatives and are set to exert a major institutional check on President Donald Trump, while breaking the Republican monopoly on power and ushering in a younger, more female and more racially diverse political generation.
Obama ridiculed Trump’s focus in the final days of the campaign on the caravan of Central American asylum seekers making their perilous way to the US border. “Two weeks before the election they are telling us that the single greatest threat to America is a bunch of poor, impoverished, broken, hungry refugees 1,000 miles away.”
