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The race for the White House has moved up a gear – with both the Trump and Harris campaigns holding rival events in the key battleground states of Michigan and Wisconsin today.

A couple of weeks ago, if you’d asked most Americans to point Tim Walz out of a crowd, you’d probably have been met with some blank stares. 

We spoke to the Guardian’s global affairs correspondent Andrew Roth, who spent many years reporting from Moscow. He was one of the first to greet Evan Gershkovich when he arrived back in the United States last night.

Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva and Paul Whelan were greeted by President Biden and Kamala Harris.

One of Donald Trump’s nephews has described his uncle as “atomic crazy” in a book about his family.

A fortnight ago Donald Trump was on top of the world. Up in the polls against a besieged Joe Biden, he soaked up rapturous applause at the Republican National Convention and called for unity in America.

Dozens of wildfires are still burning across California, including the massive Park Fire in the north. 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned the US for allowing Israel’s Prime Minister to address Congress this week – saying it gave Israel a “green light” to continue its offensive.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been welcomed by Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Largo estate in Florida, a day after talks with Vice President Kamala Harris which she described as “frank and constructive”.

He’s been in public life for more than half a century, but Joe Biden began his long, slow goodbye last night, with an Oval Office address explaining to the American public why he’s not standing for another four years in the White House.

The political bombshells have been dropping so thick and fast here, it’s almost impossible to keep up.

The state of Pennsylvania is considered one of the most important swing states in the country. But what do ordinary voters there make of this upended political landscape?

We speak to pollster and political strategist Cornell Belcher.

He might be the oldest president in US history – but Joe Biden was once one of its youngest senators, when he began his political career more than half a century ago.