Sky News US Analyst Michael Ware discusses US President Joe Biden’s fitness for office as he makes a campaign stop at a church in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. “I think it’s going to take a little bit more than prayer,” Mr Ware told Sky News Australia. “President Biden and his campaign is simply in an absolute world of hurt.”

Former high commissioner to the United Kingdom George Brandis says Keir Starmer seems to have “hit the ground running” as the UK’s new Prime Minister. Mr Brandis described him as a “class act”. “He has dispatched his new defence secretary to Ukraine … to affirm Britain’s support for President Zelenskyy. “He’s relatively new to politics … but he’s very much a professional, he ran a very disciplined, error-free campaign.”

Former high commissioner to the United Kingdom George Brandis says France’s far-let party coming out on top in the second round of the country's parliamentary elections was “a surprise”. “The reason, as far as I can tell … is that there was a very high turnout, an unusually high turnout for a French election of people who wanted to block Marine La Pen’s National rally,” he told Sky News Australia. “They gathered around a new political party of the left … in alignment with President Macron’s centre-left party Ensemble”.

CommSec’s Tom Piotrowski says Europe has seen the markets “flourish” by “quite a meaningful extent”. “The heart of all that was a recovery for bank stocks,” Mr Piotrowski told Sky News Australia. “The French market interestingly was one of the most improved.” Presented by CommSec.

Meghan Marke could be dragged back to court as her half sister Samantha Marke is preparing to overturn a previous verdict in a defamation case. Samatha first sued Meghan in 2022 over claims the Duchess of Sussex made in her Oprah Winfrey sit-down and Netflix series. News Corp Columnist Angela Mollard and GT Communication’s Gemma Tognini join Sky News host Caroline Di Russo to discuss the latest on Meghan’s fresh legal woes.

Suggestions have emerged over whether Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may call an early election in August despite the RBA rate decision in a couple of weeks and the Queensland election. It comes as Peter Van Onselen in the Daily Mail has predicted Mr Albanese is plotting to call a very early election as soon as August 31. The Australian’s Graham Lloyd and Adoni Media’s Leisa Goddard join Sky News host James Morrow to Discuss the possibility of an early election and how early it may be.

Wordsmith and broadcaster Kel Richards has weighed in on whether or not Joe Biden will withdraw from the presidential race as pressure continues to mount for the US President. “There’s only one person who can take him out of the race and that’s Biden,” Mr Richards said. “Only Biden can decide if Biden runs. There is nothing left except stubborn willpower, what you're looking at is a man who contains nothing but stubborn willpower he is not going to give it up.”

One Nation Chief of Staff James Ashby has joined Sky News host James Morrow to discuss the UK general election 2024 results. Labour won around 34 per cent of the national vote, while the Conservative Party secured nearly 24 per cent of that number. “See this is what happens when the so-called conservative party is no longer conservative and they don’t listen to what people on the ground are saying, the voters themselves,” Mr Ashby said. “They got tired, they got complacent and that’s why they have absolutely been wiped out at this election and there’s no greater message for them just to get back to their grassroots. “To get elected with a 34 per cent vote that’s is just astounding.”

PR Counsel Managing Director Kristy McSweeney says the recent results from the UK general election reveal that there is room for the Reform Party to grow. “Reform came second in 106 electorates of those 106 electorates where it came second 93 of those where won by Labour, so their vote is accelerating in Labour-held seats as well,” Ms McSweeney said. “It just demonstrates that there is room for the Reform Party to grow if we look really at the granular level of the number of votes and the great load of seats that they came second in.”

GT Communication’s Gemma Tognini has labelled “self-obsessed” Prince Harry and Meghan Markle a “dumpster fire” when it comes to adulting. “So self-obsessed they leave the royal family, they quit their jobs but they keep the title and then whinge and moan that nobodies giving them security anymore but we want to be self-determined and independent financially,” Ms Tognini said. “I mean they're an absolute dumpster fire when it comes to adulting.”

Royal fans now have the chance to take a glimpse inside King Charles' Scottish residence as the monarch opens up parts of Balmoral Castle to the public for the first time in 170 years. News Corp Columnist Angela Mollard has discussed what royal fans can expect when going on a tour of Balmoral Castle. The tours which will run from July 1 to August 4, will allow 40 visitors per day to explore the halls and staircases of the Aberdeenshire castle.

Prince William and Princess Catherine's major change to their team has raised conjecture about the Princess of Wales's health amid ongoing cancer treatment. It comes as the Prince and Princess of Wales have appointed the former boss of supermarket giant, Tesco as a director for their foundation. News Corp Columnist Angela Mollard has joined Sky News host Caroline Di Russo to discuss the royal couple's major change to their team and what it suggests about Princess Catherine’s health. “What this appointment suggests is that she is getting back to work behind the scenes or at least that she was sufficiently capable of making some decisions around this trusteeship,” Ms Mollard said. “She would have been consulted on it, and that means that perhaps she is getting better and getting ready to come back to work,” she said.

The Australian’s Graham Lloyd says US President Joe Biden “needs to demonstrate” he is competent with a cognitive test. “Extraordinary times isn’t it … the best advice he could get would be to stop digging, the more he talks about it and the more he is trying to justify the situation the worse he looks,” he said. “It is not unusual for older people to have a cognitive test, it is quite a normal thing, he should leap at the opportunity to demonstrate he could do so.”

King Charles has ruffled some feathers over his decision to drop royal patronage for pigeon racing. His move to sever ties with pigeon racing has raised questions over his decision and whether animal rights activists had any play in it. GT Communication’s Gemma Tognini joined Sky News host Caroline Di Russo to discuss the recent move made by the monarch. “I mean I don’t know how much animal welfare issues arise from pigeon racing to be honest perhaps it’s a diary issue,” Ms Tognini said. “I think he could have punted it down to a more junior role now that’s his the King. “It’s anyone’s guess as to whether this was politics, diary or just disinterest.”

Studies from distinguished universities and institutes worldwide are revealing the dangers of light pollution on heart health. “Light pollution, a bit like noise pollution, causes changes in our body’s rhythm,” said Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Director Professor Jason Kovacic. “It upsets our sleep pattern, which can lead to changes in eating patterns, changes in our mental stress levels, increases in blood pressure, and weight gain. “All of those things can conspire to increase cardiovascular risk.”

More than 20 per cent of employees are in the high risk category of burnout, according to recent research from Workday. The research from Workday involved a survey of 2.6 million employees across 850 companies and 12 industries worldwide. The results showed that 27 per cent of employees are at high risk of burning out. Workday Senior HR Director, Asia Pacific, and Japan Melissa Bowden says the percentage is “significant”.

The Democrats may convince Joe Biden to step down and elevate “unelectable” US Vice President Kamala Harris to the position of “the most powerful human being in the world” in the lead-up to the election, according to Sky News host Rita Panahi. “Why they would contemplate such a move when the polls show that Harris would lose by an even bigger margin to Trump than Biden? Well, I can’t answer that,” she said. “The Democrats are demented and increasingly desperate, so anything is possible. “America deserves something more.”

Two bodies have been found at a beach in Sydney’s east during a search and rescue operation. At around 11am on Sunday, emergency services were called to Little Bay Beach after reports of a concern for welfare. A short time later, two bodies were found near the rocks. Police are yet to formally identify the victims.

Sky News host Rita Panahi had reacted to US Vice President Kamala Harris being an “absolute clown show”. “Kamala has been deemed the future of the party, and the Democrats and Kamala deserve each other,” she said. “But after four ruinous years of the Biden-Harris administration, America deserves something more.”

Productivity Commission Deputy Chair Alex Robson has warned that Australia needs to respond appropriately to global industry policy developments as it can start to “look like protectionism”. “Although the rest of the world is engaging in more and more industry policy, for a country like Australia, we’re a small open economy,” Mr Robson told Sky News Business Reporter Edward Boyd. “There are risks in us trying to match that huge spending in the US, Europe and China.”