The Northern Territory’s leaders are facing off at the NT News Future forum as they discuss the biggest issues facing the community. Crime, law and order, community safety and the economy will be the big issues on voters’ minds as they head to the polls. Sky News Darwin Bureau Chief Matt Cunningham said NT Chief Minister Eva Lawler has “turned the ship around” since she took on her role last year.

US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has given her opening statement as the House Oversight Committee holds a hearing into the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Ms Cheatle conceded in her opening statement the shooting at Mr Trump’s Pennsylvania rally is “the most significant operational failure” of the Secret Service in decades. “The Secret Service’s ... mission is to protect our nation’s leaders – on July 13th, we failed,” she told the committee.

Nurses will rally outside major New South Wales hospitals today with demands for a 15 per cent pay rise. Nurses will rally outside hospitals across New South Wales each day this week, with a total of 50 rallies to take place statewide. They are attending these rallies in their own time and are not walking off the job, so disruption to care is unlikely. Nurses are trying to get a one-year 15 per cent pay increase, a 30 per cent penalty rate on night shifts, 100 per cent salary packaging and increasing sick days to 20 days a year.

President Joe Biden called into Kamala Harris’ rally in Delaware where the Vice President launched her presidential campaign. President Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the Democrat nominee after he announced he was dropping out of the race. Ms Harris gave a round of applause for the president and her campaign team for their tireless efforts.

US President Joe Biden – who’s currently still in COVID isolation in Delaware – has called in to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign event. “I’m not going anywhere – I’m going to be out there on the campaign with her, with Kamala, I’m going to be working like hell both as a sitting President getting legislation passed as well as campaigning,” he said. “Trump is still a danger to the communities; he’s a danger to the nation. “I want you to know I won’t be on the ticket, but I’m still going to be fully, fully engaged.”

The head of the Secret Service has refused to resign despite conceding the assassination attempt on Donald Trump is the most significant operation failure in decades. At the end of a lengthy and fiery congressional hearing, the most senior Republican and Democrat on the committee called on President Joe Biden to sack US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle or for her to tender her resignation immediately. Ms Cheatle wasn’t able to answer some of the questions nine days after the shooting at Mr Trump’s Pennsylvania rally, which led to incredibly fiery moments from both sides as they pressed the Secret Service boss.

US Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign says it’s raised $US81 million since President Joe Biden announced he was exiting the election race. The quick cash haul combined with some key endorsements means the Vice President is consolidating her position to replace President Biden as the Democrat nominee. This comes after President Biden announced he was stepping aside and quitting his re-election bid before endorsing Ms Harris to be his successor.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the US House Oversight and Accountability Committee about the security failures that allowed an attempted assassination of Donald Trump. It comes amid mounting calls for the Secret Service director to resign following the security failures at former US president Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania.

Sky News Washington Correspondent Annelise Nielsen has labelled US President Joe Biden’s decision to announce dropping out of the 2024 presidential race via a tweet as “utterly bizarre”. President Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the Democrat nominee after he announced he was dropping out of the race. ‘My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term,’ Biden posted on X.

Biden campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond appeared "blindsided" by Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, said Sky News host Liz Storer. It comes as Mr Richmond appeared on CBS insisting that the US President was staying in his position just hours before Biden announced his withdrawal. 'I want to be crystal clear,' Mr Richmond said during the CBS interview. 'He’s made a decision. And that decision is to accept the nomination, and run for reelection, win reelection.'

South and Hill Strategies co-founder Colin Reed discusses what sort of a contest it would be between Donald Trump and Kamla Harris if the Democratic Party ended up picking her as their nominee. "There is no doubt she brings a number of vulnerabilities and challenges to this race," Mr Reed said. "The vice presidency has not acquitted her well and frankly, I think President Biden deserves the blame for that he immediately upon taking office gave her some of the hardest challenges he faced for his administration."

Sky News host Rita Panahi has reacted to a video mash-up of Kamala Harris likened to the main character in 'Veep'. The video posted on social media mocked the VP by comparing her with the satirical political character Selina Meyer from 'Veep'. “This scene is a case of life imitating art,” Ms Panahi said. “And this mash-up of Veep Celina Myers and Veep Kamala Harris is simply lefties losing it gold.”

Sky News host Danica De Giorgio says US President Joe Biden’s pick for the “top job” in Kamala Harris could lead to an “exciting” four years. “Let’s start with Biden’s pick for the top job, Kamala Harris, imagine four years of this,” Ms De Giorgio said. “We could have an exciting four years ahead if this all goes to plan.”

Sky News host Danica De Giorgio has criticised Vice-President Kamala Harris for being “pre-occupied with waffling nonsense”. Joe Biden has ended his re-election campaign and endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate. “Joe Biden’s choice pick as the Democratic nominee is Kamala Harris – his current Vice-President: a woman who seems more pre-occupied with waffling nonsense, just like someone else in the party,” Ms De Giorgio said.

Sky News host Rita Panahi weighs in on “weapon-grade crazy” MSNBC host Joy Reid's conspiracy theories about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. It comes as the MSNBC host has shared multiple clips of conspiracy theories about the attempted assassination over social media, including implying that the whole thing had been staged. Reportedly, around 34 per cent of registered Democrats believe that Trump staged his own assassination attempt. “That's one in three registered Dems who believe Trump trusted a last millisecond head turn to save his life and had three supporters shot, one murdered, so he could stage an assassination attempt. These people are nuts,” Ms Panahi said.

Sky News host Chris Kenny joins Paul Murray to discuss US President Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 presidential election. Biden, on Sunday afternoon local time, officially ended his bid for re-election following mounting pressure for him to drop out after his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump. “If she [Kamala Harris] is the one to be the next candidate, he should have resigned outright this week, and she should have been made president. That would give her her best hope,” Mr Kenny said.

Former Victorian Liberal Party President Michael Kroger says Kamala Harris “will be the candidate” but there are rumours Michelle Obama could step forward. “She will be the candidate, there is a very, very small chance it will be Michelle Obama,” Mr Kroger told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “There is a small chance she will run, but Obama would know Harris is a goose.”

Geologist Ian Plimer says the Trump presidency will mean making “renewables competitive”. Joe Biden has ended his re-election campaign and endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate. There are questions about Trump’s energy policies in the lead-up to the presidential election. “Trump’s already shown his colours on this,” Mr Plimer told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “He wants to drill to get more gas and oil. “He wants to again get out of Paris; he wants to make renewables competitive. “No one objects to renewables; they just have to be on a level playing field, and that level playing field is without subsidies.”

Geologist Ian Plimer discusses Joe Biden ending his re-election campaign. Greens Leader Adam Bandt tweeted a statement expressing his respect for Joe Biden for stepping down, and adding the new candidate must ‘do all they can to keep Trump out of office’. “Well, the American voter would say who the hell is Adam Bandt?” Mr Plimer told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

Journalist and commentator Megyn Kelly says Americans will not get behind a Kamala Harris presidency. 'The Megyn Kelly Show' host reacted to the immediate push to make Harris the definitive candidate to replace Biden during an episode of her show on Sunday. "I am telling you, America is not going to elect this nimrod as its first female president," she said. "I trust in them too much for that. They're not that dumb."