Actor George Clooney has spoken publicly for the first time since President Joe Biden announced he would withdraw from the presidential race. The Hollywood A-lister believes the President is “saving democracy once again” by stepping aside for Vice President Kamala Harris. In a statement, the actor claims President Biden is showing “what true leadership is”. He went on to endorse Ms Harris to be President Biden’s successor, announcing he would support her in her “historic quest”.

The head of the US Secret Service has announced her resignation. Kimberly Cheatle has faced scrutiny and mounting calls for her to resign following the assassination attempt against former US president Donald Trump amid revelations of security failures. In an email to staff, she said she takes full responsibility for the security lapse. Republican and Democratic lawmakers have been calling for her to step down since the attack less than a fortnight ago. The House is expected to vote this week on establishing a bipartisan task force to investigate the assassination attempt.

Sky News host Liz Storer has discussed recent reports claiming the Democratic Party had threatened to remove US President Joe Biden from office if he didn’t step down. A source close to the Biden family told The Post that the debate against Donald Trump and Biden was a 'set-up to convince Democrats that he couldn't run for president'. Biden has since endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the Democrat nominee after he announced he was dropping out of the race.

Sky News host Liz Storer questions where the United States President Joe Biden is as he joins a Kamala Harris event over the phone. “We are supposed to believe despite the fact we still haven’t seen him and they have done this ridiculous parody … that everything is a-okay,” Ms Storer said. “Just because you have COVID does not mean you can’t be seen.”

Sky News host Paul Murray has called for Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to be sacked following security failures that allowed an attempted assassination of Donald Trump. “The secret service boss should be sacked,” Mr Murray said. “I don’t care whether she wants to resign or not she should be sacked it's binary. “Somebody was able to get a shot off and somebody got a shot that hit the former president. “Game over, you’re not up to it anymore.”

US President Joe Biden has sparked speculation after he has continued to stay out of the public eye for five days since announcing he had Covid last week. Biden has since then endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the Democrat nominee after he announced he was dropping out of the race via tweet on Sunday. Sky News Washington Correspondent Annelise Nielsen claimed that Biden could be potentially stepping down following his lack of appearance recently in the public eye. “Biden could be potentially stepping down the fact that he didn’t go on camera to make this announcement,” she said.

Former Labor Senator Stephen Conroy says Australia’s “real economy” is not doing as well as people think. Mr Conroy told Sky News host Paul Murray that the economy is “tanking”. “The Reserve Bank are responsible for it tanking.”

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer says Joe Biden “will not” voluntarily “step aside” from his role as president. Joe Biden has ended his re-election campaign and endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate. “If he were to resign, which frankly, he will not … that or the 25th amendment of our Constitution would have to get invoked to remove him,” Mr Spicer told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “Either he would voluntarily step aside, which he will not, or his cabinet will remove him, which they will not.”

Systems Biology Domain’s Professor Peter Meikle discusses the breakthrough ability to use AI-based learning algorithms to analyse and combine information from lipid species in blood samples to determine an individual’s cardiovascular risk. “The technology we are using is a process called lipidomics, and so what that allows us to do is take the same blood sample you would normally give for a cholesterol test … we measure about 250 different lipid species within that single blood sample,” Mr Meikle told Sky News host Sharri Markson. “We use an AI-based algorithm to combine all the information from those different lipid species into a risk score that is then better able to predict cardiovascular risk.”

Sky News host Peta Credlin joins former Labor MP Michale Danby and Sky News contributor Kosha Gada to discuss a recent House Oversight Committee hearing over the security failures that allowed an attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Democratic and Republican politicians slammed the Secret Service Director during a heated committee hearing on Monday over the major security failures at Trump's rally in Pennsylvania as she refused to resign. "It was a rare moment of bipartisan grilling because this was an outrage," Ms Gada said.

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer says the 2024 election will be a “much closer race” with Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party candidate rather than Joe Biden. Joe Biden has ended his re-election campaign and endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate. “This will be a much closer race,” Mr Spicer told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “She is going to get a sugar high of a bump in the polls, especially after she picks her vice president.”

Kamala Harris has managed to raise $US81 million in 24 hours setting a new record for presidential donations. The Vice President looks to have locked up key delegates in her bid to secure her party nomination after President Joe Biden decided to step aside. Ms Harris is so far uncontested as the Democrat candidate, with just over 100 days left before Americans go to the polls in November.

A new video of Republican Matt Gaetz praising El Salvador’s crime crackdown seems to contradict Donald Trump’s claim that President Bukele is sending "all of his criminals" to the United States. In a video released on Sunday to Bukele's X account, Gaetz thanked the Salvadoran administration for ensuring inmates "are not harming the people of El Salvador or the United States". During his speech at the Republican National Convention on July 18, Trump referred to Bukele’s strict measures against crime in El Salvador. “In El Salvador, murders are down by 70 per cent. Why are they down? (Bukele) would have you believe it's because he's trained murderers to be wonderful people," Trump said. "No, they're down because they're sending their murderers to the United States of America."

Sky News host Chris Kenny has raised concerns over the whereabouts of US President Joe Biden after he “bowed to lobbying” and dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. “Who is running the United States?” Mr Kenny said. “Who is leading the free world? “As you might know, no one has seen the president since last Thursday.”

Sky News host Chris Kenny reacts to the “wild conspiracy theories” concerning the failed assassination attempt of former US president Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally. “I’ll back the stuff up by authorities every time,” Mr Kenny said. “A former president injured, one man dead and two others injured. “This was an unforgivable security lapse.”

Woodside shares continued to fall on Tuesday after it released its latest quarterly report which shows production broadly flat and revenue ahead by around two per cent to $3.03 billion. However, shares continue to fall largely because it revealed a $US500 million blowout in the cost of the development of the giant Scarborough gas field – around 400 kilometres offshore from Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Woodside closed down two per cent on Monday and a further 3.74 per cent on Tuesday.

Commsec’s Laura Besarati joins Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood to discuss Alphabet and Tesla's second-quarter earnings. “Alphabet is the fourth largest company on the US market, so these earnings are very highly anticipated,” Ms Besarati said. “What we’re expecting is for them to report a 13 per cent lift in second-quarter revenue." She added the “expectation” for Tesla is to be “softer than a year ago, with about a one per cent drop in quarterly revenue".

US Political Analyst Aidan Smith discusses prospective running mates for Kamala Harris. Vice President Kamala Harris is set to become the Democratic nominee ahead of the US election. “We’re seeing names looking at swing state Democratic governors,” Mr Smith told Sky News Australia. “Andy Beshear in Kentucky … a lot of people on the Democratic camp think that he might be a good rival for JD Vance."

University of Michigan Associate Professor Javed Ali explains how Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle could be removed from the job after being grilled at a House Oversight Committee hearing. “The director level of these departments and agencies they are presidential appointed and also believe the Secret Service director has to go through senate confirmation,” Mr Ali told Sky News Australia. “The Senate alone cannot force a cabinet-level office or someone who is president appointed … member of the government to leave; they all serve at the pleasure of the president. “If the president, no matter who that president is, wants that person’s resignation, they can demand it. “In this case, the director may be asked to resign by the president, or based on her own calculus, she could resign without that hand being played.”

US Political Analyst Aidan Smith says Kamala Harris is the “presumptive nominee” for the Democrats. Vice President Kamala Harris is set to become the Democratic nominee ahead of the US election. “In terms of potential players who might’ve opposed her in the nomination … they’re clearly not going to run,” Mr Smith told Sky News Australia. “At this point, I think Harris has a formal majority of delegates to the point where she’s being considered the presumptive nominee in most media reports.”