Washington Correspondent Annelise Nielsen says Kamala Harris has “hit the ground running” in her first official campaign. Mr Nielsen told Sky News host Sharri Markson that the response so far “has been good”. “But there’s a long way to go.”

Sky News Washington Correspondent Annelise Nielsen says Kamala Harris is going to have to do “more media” in the leadup to the presidential election. Ms Nielsen told Sky News host Sharri Markson that media has not traditionally been Kamala Harris’ “strong point”. “This is going to be also something where we have to focus on how the debates go.”

Sky News host Chris Kenny has hit out at Labor and Liberal governments for turning Australia into an “energy basket case”. The latest quarterly dynamics report shows wind generation was down 20 per cent and lower rainfall saw hydroelectricity drop by 18 per cent. “This energy crisis is unforgivable in a country that's a leading world exporter of coal, gas and uranium,” Mr Kenny said.

Vice President Kamala Harris has become the “person of the moment” and her life has probably never been better since President Joe Biden endorsed her as the Democrat nominee, according to Sky News host Chris Kenny. “This wave of support for Harris is entirely to be expected, the big question is how long it lasts,” Mr Kenny said. “Can the Democrats ride the enthusiasm all the way to November? Or will voters get a good look at Harris's record and see what the Vice President is really like?”

Curtin University’s decision to ban the phrase “from the river to the sea” has been labelled “sensible” by the Institute of Public Affairs’ Daniel Wild. “Good on the university for finally cracking down on this,” he told Sky News host Caroline Di Russo. “I’m not holding my breath for anything from the University of Sydney or the University of Melbourne.”

US Vice President Kamala Harris is hoping slime green will appeal to Americans as her Twitter cover picture was changed to a lime green picture with the words ‘Kamala hq’. Charli XCX also tweeted ‘Kamala IS brat’ the day Mr Harris became the Democratic nominee endorsement after Joe Biden stepped down. Mr Biden stepped down from the presidential race after his disastrous performance in his debate against Trump on CNN.

Sky News host Caroline Di Russo reacts to a wild rant by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten where she suggested former president Donald Trump was an “existential threat” to democracy. “Hardly softening political discourse in the aftermath of an attempted political assassination,” Ms Di Russo said. “And if that isn't an advertisement for home schooling, well then I’m not really sure what is.”

Sky News host Caleb Bond slammed US President Joe Biden for being able to phone into a Kamala Harris press conference but was somehow unable to show his face via video link. “He has looked like death warmed up for a long time,” Mr Bond said. “We saw him at the debate he possibly could not have looked any worse than that.”

Left-wing organisation ‘Black Lives Matter’ (BLM) has accused the Democratic party of being a “party of hypocrites”. The organisation came out against the Democrat’s installation of Kamala Harris as the party’s presidential nominee. Last week Joe Biden announced via X his decision to drop out of the 2024 election and endorsed Vice President Harris as his successor. Harris’ quick rise as the Democratic presumptive nominee has not sat well with BLM, with the group heavily criticising the Democrats’ decision in a scathing statement. “We do not live in a dictatorship. Delegates are not oligarchs,” they wrote. “Installing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee and an unknown vice president without any public voting process would make the modern Democratic Party a party of hypocrites.”

The Albanese government has reinstated ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess as a permanent member of the National Security Committee. The role was initially diluted in January 2023. The news comes amid an explosion of foreign interference in Australia.

Assistant Trade and Manufacturing Minister Tim Ayres says the 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be a “fascinating electoral contest”. “It is one of the world’s largest and most vibrant democracies, the United States,” Mr Ayres told Sky News Australia. “Our job as representatives of the government, led by the prime minister, is to make sure we are pressing for Australia’s national interest with whoever it is the people of the United States elect as the next president.”

Strategic Analysis director Michael Shoebridge slams the Labor government for its decision not to integrate weapons on the locally developed Ghost Bat drone platform. “This was supposed to be the first combat aircraft designed and built in Australia for 50 years, it is now not going to be a combat aircraft,” Mr Shoebridge told Sky News Australia. “A big single bet on a really expensive per unit system by getting eight of them for $800 million, and it turns out the Americans won’t let us integrate weapons onto it, so the thing is a busted flush.” “What it is is an empty platform with a small payload.”

Typhoon Gaemi looks set to barrel over Taiwan and into China with winds of up to 185 kilometres an hour. It could be Taiwan’s first tropical storm of 2024. Typhoon Gaemi swelled, sped up, and began to spin northwest towards Taipei. Forecasts say Gaemi will grow to the equivalent of a category-three storm. Taiwan gets hit with an average of three to four typhoons yearly, mainly in the summer. The deadliest typhoon, Morakot, in 2009, killed more than 600 people.

Sky News host Paul Murray says the media is going to try and go “full Obama” on Kamala Harris. The US Vice President has surpassed the number of delegates needed to become the Democratic candidate. “It’s important the Republicans don’t push too hard but have to push back,” Ms Murray said on Tuesday night. “Why? Because all of the media that has been so embarrassed is now all in – they’re going to try and go full Obama on Harris, but even Obama knows she ain’t Obama, which is why, of course, he hasn’t endorsed her yet.”

US President Joe Biden made his first public appearance on Tuesday, boarding Air Force One after contracting COVID. As he left the motorcade vehicle, the oldest-ever sitting president spoke to reporters before heading up the plane's steps. Biden was diagnosed with COVID-19 on July 17 and had not been seen publicly since, sparking concerns over his health. It was also the 81-year-old’s first appearance since he dropped out of the 2024 presidential election. Clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center Dr Marc Siegel spoke to Fox News about President Biden's health. “His walking on the stairs looks fine, better than usual, but it's strange that he didn't say hello to anyone. All his energy went into walking,” he said.

A top Queensland bureaucrat has revealed the $1 billion price tag to rebuild the Gabba for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics wasn’t based on analysis. Director General of the Department of Premier and Cabinet Mike Kaiser admitted the figure wasn’t based on anything when he answered questions from Opposition leader David Crisafulli during yesterday’s budget estimates. The business case wasn’t finalised until last year, and it found the knockdown and rebuild of the Gabba was going to cost $2.7 billion.

Republican strategist John Jordan says Donald Trump’s campaign will have an opportunity to remind Americans of US Vice President Kamala Harris’ “duplicitousness”. “She’s also one of the people that’s been saying Joe Biden was completely competent and was not senile,” he told Sky News Australia. “You find those clips where she’s blatantly lying to the American people.”

A large group of Pro-Palestinian protesters have held a rally inside the US Capitol rotunda ahead of the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit to Washington DC. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said negotiations with Hamas over a potential hostage release and ceasefire are improving as he met families of hostages during his time in DC. Israel’s leader is expected to meet President Joe Biden and presumptive Democrat nominee Kamala Harris at the White House on Friday after a speech to Congress tomorrow. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says he will also meet with Mr Netanyahu tomorrow at his resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

CommSec’s Tom Piotrowski says in “underwhelming fashion”, the ASX 200 is expected to kick off today with a “very slight” improvement. “In underwhelming fashion, I would say, the futures are telling us that we’ll kick off with a very slight improvement at this stage, up by 0.1 of a per cent,” he told Sky News Australia. “But we’ve seen considerable pressure on mining stocks and commodities overnight.” Presented by CommSec.

US President Joe Biden is on his way to Washington DC after isolating due to his recent COVID diagnosis. He is expected to make an address from the White House tomorrow where he will detail his decision to quit his re-election bid. The 81-year-old was in good spirits as he left Delaware this morning.