Manager of Opposition Business Paul Fletcher says it is the actions of the pro-Palestine protesters who scaled Canberra's Parliament House to display banners are "extremely troubling". "It's also very troubling that we are seeing these kind of sentiments being expressed," he told Sky News Australia. "The question needs to be asked - is that because it's being encouraged by at least some politicians in this place?"

Vice President Kamala Harris’ likeability is “down the toilet” with her approval ratings lower than President Joe Biden’s, according to author Douglas Murray. “Now they have this hugely unpopular figure, the Vice President, who has no meaningful achievements to her name in her years in office,” Mr Murray told Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi. “Everything she has been tasked with, like the border, has not got better under her management – far from it.”

Author Douglas Murray reacts to President Joe Biden’s poor debate performance against Donald Trump. Mr Murray addressed the “excuses” put forward by the Democrats to explain the President’s poor performance. “He was obviously not on good form as all of his sycophants have had to keep pointing out,” Mr Murray told Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi. “The problem is that they have this line they have been doing for the past week which is he had a bad night. “Well, yes, but the evidence would be that he has a lot of bad nights and a lot of bad days.”

Author Douglas Murray warns Vice President Kamala Harris’ approval ratings are “much worse” than President Joe Biden’s. “Now they have this hugely unpopular figure, the Vice President, who has no meaningful achievements to her name in her years in office,” Mr Murray told Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi. “Everything she has been tasked with, like the border, has not got better under her management – far from it.”

Shadow Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister James Paterson says the Greens Party have “crossed the line” after they “stoked the flames of division” within the Australian community. “Encouraged some of the protests that we’ve seen in the community whether it’s on university campuses or outside electorate offices,” Mr Paterson told Sky News Australia. “I think that has been dangerous and unprincipled - I think we need to draw a very bright line between fair and legitimate political debate and disagreement on policy issues, and weaponising a foreign conflict for dividing our community which I think the Greens have strayed into from time to time.”

Governors Kathy Hochul, Tim Walz, and Wes Moore have pledged support for US President Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate after a meeting in the Oval Office. “I’m here to tell you today President Joe Biden is in it to win it,” Ms Hochul said during a media conference. “All of us said we would pledge our support to him because the stakes could not be higher … we will stand with the President as we fight that force, that force being Donald Trump.”

The Vatican should feel “deeply ashamed” as to the way in which Cardinal George Pell’s body was treated before being sent to Australia for burial following his death, says Sky News host Andrew Bolt. Mr Bolt discussed how a “Pell confident” who was at the opening of the Cardinal’s coffin found the body had been treated with “gross disrespect”. “Perhaps it was just incompetence, but some of Pell's closest associates have told me they suspected some in the Vatican had not forgiven Pell for exposing corruption,” Mr Bolt said. The Sky News host said he also spoke with Cardinal Pell’s brother, David, to check what he knew of what had been done to the body. “As he confirmed, the embalming, in his words, had been mucked up, or buggered up," Mr Bolt said. "A Sydney undertaker had to clean the body – Pell's nose had also been broken. Pell was also shoeless, said David Pell, his brother. "In fact, I'd been told he wasn't only shoeless – all his clothes had simply been just thrown in the coffin. “It is true that, outwardly, the Vatican did Pell the full honours at his death, with a packed service at St Peter's, attended by the Pope, and Pell remains of course admired by many around the world, including me – and not just Catholics of course, because I'm not, I'm not even Christian – admired as a man of God, a man of principle, a reformer, a strong leader and a man persecuted for his faith. “But the Vatican should now be deeply, deeply ashamed to have treated his body so shabbily.” Mr Bolt said it was a "final insult" to a "great and innocent man".

One of Hezbollah’s Senior Commanders has been killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon. Israel’s military confirmed they had killed Mohammed Nasser. It says he was responsible for the firing unit in southwestern Lebanon.

Former diplomat for the Obama administration Brett Bruen says the Biden administration is not using “effective crisis communication”. The White House offered up another excuse for the US President’s poor debate performance last week, claiming he was suffering from jet lag. “You don’t want to be putting forward a new rationale, a new reason every day,” Mr Bruen told Sky News Australia. “Quite frankly, they just need to be more transparent about this.”

Hurricane Beryl is bearing down on Jamaica as it slowly churns its way through the Caribbean. The weather system has so far claimed seven lives and there are fears the storm could bring life-threatening conditions to the island country. It is expected to continue west later today before crossing the Central American coastline on Friday (local time).

Senator Fatima Payman is expected to quit the Labor Party today. This comes after Ms Payman refused to change her views on the war in Gaza which doesn’t align with Labor’s position. Ms Payman broke more than a hundred years of protocol in defying that after crossing the floor of the Senate to support Palestinian statehood and then vowed to do it again.

Sir Keir Starmer is on the cusp of one of the biggest United Kingdom election wins in history. New polling out today suggests the Labour Party could secure a 212-seat majority in what will be the biggest single-party majority since 1832. Both Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak have made their final pitch to voters as they crisscross the British Isles ahead of tomorrow’s result.

The White House offered up another excuse this morning for the US President’s poor debate performance last week. Officials now claim the President was suffering from jet lag. This is despite returning from Europe over a week before the debate.

The White House has denied reports United States President Joe Biden will step aside. This comes after a new poll conducted by the New York Times shows Biden now six points behind former US President Donald Trump. There has been growing anger in Democratic ranks that the aftermath of CNN’s presidential debate has been more damaging than the debate itself.

Former Victorian Liberal Party President Michael Kroger says Labor has an “ideological objection” to the mining industry. Mr Kroger told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio that Labor “hates the mining companies”. “It’s old, sort of caveman view of the world.”

King Charles and Queen Camilla are set to visit the Channel Islands this month, it will be the first a British monarch has visited since 2005. Buckingham Palace confirmed the royal couple will travel to Jersey on July 15 and then to Guernsey on July 16 for the two-day 'whistlestop trip'. The Daily Mirror’s Royal Editor Russell Myers welcomed the news, saying he thinks this is part of the King's program to try and "get out and see as many people and make up for lost time".

Sky News host Laura Jayes discusses UK Labour leader Kier Starmer’s “relatively” new position in politics as the party it set to win in a landslide election. “Kier Starmer he is a relatively new politician, you have to remember that he only entered the parliament around ten years ago, he became leader four years ago,” she said. “I get the sense at the moment the Labour Party really is holding together, they are salivating because they know they are going to get across the line in a very big way.”

Speculation has mounted over whether or not the Democratic party will dump Joe Biden as the party's presidential candidate following his trainwreck performance last week during the CNN debate. Former speaker of the house Bronwyn Bishop and Sky News contributor Joe Hildebrand discuss whether or not the party will drop President Biden as their candidate. “There’s obviously a strong contingent within the Democratic Party that wants to blast him out and hence the whole scenario of the debate being set up,” Ms Bishop said.

Former ANSTO CEO Dr Adi Paterson says the CSIRO is “genuinely misleading”. Mr Paterson told Sky News host Peta Credlin that the CEO of the CSIRO is a medical specialist “talking about generation cost”. The “cost that matters” is what personal homes, businesses and factories experience.

Sky News host Liz Storer says “caps on international students” is a step to addressing Australia’s housing crisis. Ms Storer said the universities are “screaming their heads off”. “I am so sick of Aussies missing out on placements that they deserve because they’ll take an international student over you any day.”