The Republican’s manner of speaking may betray signs of cognitive decline, a number of psychological experts have suggested.

An analysis by STAT –a media organization focusing on health – found that Trump’s common pattern of speech called tangentiality (jumping from topic to topic with few, if any, connections in between) is just one of a number of his incoherent speaking habits that appears to have worsened in the last few years.

In 2017, Trump’s first year as president, STAT concluded Trump’s speaking style had worsened since the 1980s.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

The image of Trump’s running mate approaching Air Force Two with his team of nearly all-male advisers earlier this week made some feel deeply uncomfortable, writes Richard Hall.

Tim Walz has been attacked from all angles by Republicans in the two days since he was unveiled as Kamala Harris’s running mate to take on Donald Trump and JD Vance in November.

The mild-mannered Midwesterner and Minnesota governor, a 24-year veteran of the Army National Guard and former high school teacher, has been called everything from a “radical leftist” to “Tampon Tim” as the opposition scrambles to define and discredit him in the eyes of voters.

So far, little has stuck, prompting Trump’s allies to turn to Walz’s ties to China as a fresh avenue of attack.

Here’s the truth behind the disingenuous partisan nonsense.

Arizona, Georgia and Nevada no longer look like they will be wins for the Trump campaign in 2024, according to election forecasters at the Cook Political Report, which has moved the pivotal battlegrounds from leaning Republican to “toss-ups” in great news for the Democratic ticket.

Josh Marcus has more.

Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming showdown between the Republican and Democrat on ABC in one month’s time.

Donald Trump’s would-be assassin visited his local rifle range dozens of times – including on Christmas Day – during a period of “intense preparation” in the year leading up to the attack, according to newly-obtained records.

Documents obtained by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley from Clairton Sportsmen’s Club in Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania, reveal that Thomas Crooks visited the shooting range 43 times between August 10 2023 and his failed attempt on the former president’s life on July 13 2024 in Butler.

Crooks “almost exclusively” spent his time at the club’s rifle range, with 80 per cent of his visits spent on shooting practice, according to Grassley’s office.

The 20-year-old even visited the site on holidays, with visits logged on Christmas Day, Valentine’s Day and Halloween.

His final visit came on the afternoon of July 12 – one day before the assassination attempt, records show.

James Liddell and Gustaf Kilander have more.

The Republican has tried out a number of nicknames as he scrambles to define Kamala Harris in the presidential race.

There was “Laffin’ Kamala” and there was “Lyin’ Kamala” but he now appears to have settled on the frankly confusing “Kamabla.”

Nobody knows what it means but Gustaf Kilander has attempted to find out.

The former San Francisco mayor and speaker of the California State Assembly, who was once in a relationship with Kamala Harris, has rubbished Trump’s story that he told the Republican “terrible things” about her during a near-death experience on a helicopter ride.

James Liddell reports on a story Brown insists is total invention.

Michael Kosta had plenty of fun with one of the Republican’s dumbest claims in some time during yesterday’s press conference.

Myriam Page has this on what he had to say.

The Vice President has surged to a five-point lead over Donald Trump in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, putting her on 42 per cent to the Republican’s 37 per cent nationally with less than three months to go to November’s presidential election.

The survey found that Harris had widened her lead since a July 22-23 poll from the same source found her up 37 per cent to 34 per cent over Trump.

The nationwide poll of 2,045 American adults was conducted between August 2 and 7 and found just 4 per cent of those surveyed backing independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr, down from 10 per cent in July.