Siobhan Kennedy , Washington Correspondent

Today US Vice-President Kamala Harris is travelling to Lake Mead in Nevada to talk up the President’s climate agenda. It’s the biggest reservoir in the US, but it’s drying up because of the twin effects of the heat and the drought, both of which are exacerbated by climate change. 

In the US, President’s Biden’s climate agenda is under renewed threat from inside his party. 

US climate envoy John Kerry has warned the COP26 summit is likely to end without an agreement by nations to the ambitious cuts in carbon emissions needed to avoid devastating levels of climate change. 

Now to the United States, the world’s second biggest emitter after China, where an embattled President Biden is under pressure as his climate agenda is in jeopardy ahead of attending COP 26.

Tens of thousands of women are expected to take to the streets in cities across the United States in support of abortion rights, after Texas passed the most restrictive laws in the country. 

Protesters have been gathering in Washington DC ahead of a women’s march tomorrow against the law passed in Texas that bans abortion after six weeks. 

The biggest piece of President Biden’s domestic agenda has hit a roadblock. Infighting in the Democratic Party has stalled the trillion dollar infrastructure bills that aim to transform the country’s transport network and make tackling climate change a key part of America’s future.

Joe Biden’s £2.6 trillion reconciliation package is facing severe opposition in Congress. But it’s not the Republicans who are the issue this time around.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson used his prime time at the podium at the UN General Assembly to warn the world, and I quote, that “the adolescence of humanity must come to an end”.

In his first speech to the United Nations US president Joe Biden has laid out his country’s plans for “a new era of relentless diplomacy”.

Right-wing demonstrators descended on the US Capitol in Washington DC, as seen earlier this year in January which saw the pro-Trump rally turn deadly as protesters stormed the Capitol building.

Aukus sounds like a creature from gothic sci fi. It is in fact the name of the submarine security pact signed by Australia, the UK and the US. 

The US gold medallist Simone Biles and three fellow gymnastics stars have begun giving evidence at the Senate Judiciary Committee, as part of their investigation into Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics doctor convicted of sexually assaulting or abusing more than 150 girls and women. At times, overcome with emotion, Ms Biles told the committee…

Prince Andrew has hired a well known celebrity lawyer to represent him in the court case against a woman who accuses him of sexual abuse. 

From Afghanistan to the US and across the world, the repercussions of the attacks 20 years ago reverberated then as they do now.