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In first rally, Kamala Harris frames election as choice between ‘freedom and chaos’
The 59-year-old prosecutor entered the stage to loud and lengthy cheers, as people waved “Kamala” banners from the bleachers.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Nine’s Olympic staff attacked in Paris during attempted robbery; police investigate alleged gang rape
- by Marta Pascual Juanola, Jordan Baker and Chip Le Grand
Updated
Extreme weather
World’s hottest day recorded, but land temperatures will be even higher
- by Gloria Dickie and Bianca Hall
Opinion & Perspectives
Biden gives the speech he never wanted to, and does it with passion and grace
Four days after withdrawing from the presidential race, Joe Biden says the time is right to “pass the torch to a new generation”.
Farrah Tomazin
North America correspondent
Trump v Rudd: who’d win, the master of the barb or the prince of persuasion?
Kevin Rudd may have called him “nuts”, but a re-elected Donald Trump would learn the former PM is a crafty diplomat, not easily intimidated.
David Livingstone
Former diplomat
Ugly Australians are helping to drive Filipino online child sex trade
In a shameful claim to infamy, Australians are the third-biggest users of the Philippines online child sex trade.
The Herald's View
Editorial
North America
Man faints while driving 110km/h on a US highway. His grandson, 10, took the wheel
Grandfather Hugh Cox, 68, was chatting on the phone with a co-worker when suddenly something was very wrong.
- by Sydney Page
Joe Biden speech LIVE updates: US president says ‘soul of America at stake’ in address to nation after stepping down as presidential nominee
US President Joe Biden is set to speak from the Oval Office, the first formal speech since he announced he was no longer running for president.
- by Olivia Ireland
Analysis
US Votes 2024
Biden gives the speech he never wanted to, and does it with passion and grace
- by Farrah Tomazin
Opinion
Foreign relations
Trump v Rudd: who’d win, the master of the barb or the prince of persuasion?
- by David Livingstone
Europe
Updated
Extreme weather
World’s hottest day recorded, but land temperatures will be even higher
- by Gloria Dickie and Bianca Hall
Nine’s Olympic staff attacked in Paris during attempted robbery; police investigate alleged gang rape
- by Marta Pascual Juanola, Jordan Baker and Chip Le Grand
Asia
Updated
Aviation
At least 18 dead as plane skids off runway and catches fire in Nepal
Nepal has been criticised for its poor air safety record, with the deadliest incident occurring in 1992, when 167 people died when a plane crashed into a hillside.
- by Binaj Gurubacharya
Editorial
Child abuse
Ugly Australians are helping to drive Filipino online child sex trade
In a shameful claim to infamy, Australians are the third-biggest users of the Philippines online child sex trade.
- The Herald's View
Untouched meals, cyanide and six bodies in a luxury Bangkok hotel room
- by Sui-Lee Wee and Muktita Suhartono
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Inquiry finds 200,000 people were abused in NZ over decades in ‘national disgrace’
The scale of abuse was “unimaginable” with an estimated 200,000 people abused over seven decades, many of them Maori, a new report found.
- by Charlotte Graham-McLay
Risk of Lebanese-Israeli conflict is real, but a ceasefire in Gaza may help
- by Patrick Kingsley and Euan Ward
Netanyahu will walk political tightrope on US trip amid Biden chaos
- by Tia Goldenberg and Aamer Madhani
