Gustaf Kilander reports.

Uh oh. How’s he going to spin this one?

Here’s Josh Marcus on the Trumps’ past admiration for “Kackling Kamala”.

Keen listeners at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and at the Trump rally in Michigan last week may have noticed a subtle development on the campaign trail: JD Vance officially has a walk-on song.

Here’s Josh Marcus on why 2005’s “America First” by country legend Merle Haggard may not be such a solid fit for this ticket after all.

The former president has taken the lead in the presidential betting odds against Kamala Harris.

Trump is currently -200 favorite to win the presidential race while Harris is roughly a 2/1 underdog at +185, according to BetOnline. The newest results come as President Joe Biden announced he would no longer seek re-election in November.

But third on the list is none other than former first lady Michelle Obama, who left the White House in 2017, with odds at +2000.

Tied behind Obama is Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. All of them are listed at +2500 or greater.

Gustaf Kilander has more.

Here’s a strange one.

An “asparagus fortune teller” correctly predicted Joe Biden would step down from the 2024 US presidential race – but also forecast bad luck for Donald Trump.

Jemima Packington, the world’s only “asparamancer”, who also foresaw Queen Elizabeth II’s death and Brexit, appeared on Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio 2 show just four days ago to make her prediction.

Bathford, who makes political predictions by reading the way asparagus falls on the floor, was asked to use the ingredient to say whether Biden or Trump would be elected in November by Vine on July 17.

“I can tell you it’s neither of them,” she said.

“It’s a lady. Now, I keep on getting this. The next president of the United States is going to be a lady.”

The man who attempted to assassinate Trump last week flew a drone over the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally site hours before the former president took the stage, according to a new report.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, sent the drone over the site the morning of July 13, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing law enforcement officials briefed on the shooting.

He used a pre-programmed flight path, which officials said may mean he used the drone more than once to scope out the area, according to the Journal.

Crooks also received several packages labeled as containing “hazardous materials” and performed Google searches for Trump rally dates as well as for President Joe Biden and next month’s Democratic National Convention, the Journal reports.

Katie Hawkinson reports.

With Joe Biden’s stunning announcement that he would not seek re-election nearly one month after his troubling debate performance against Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as a surprisingly strong potential challenger to the ex-president.

“I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination,” she wrote Sunday in a statement shortly after Biden announced he was passing the torch.

“Over the past year, I have traveled across the country, talking with Americans about the clear choice in this momentous election. And that is what I will continue to do in the days and weeks ahead. I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda.”

Harris — the first woman, the first African-American and the first person of Asian descent to serve in the nation’s second-highest office — has been dogged by dismal approval ratings and a policy portfolio that has seen her take on politically tricky issues, like the root causes of an immigration crisis that’s brought hundreds of thousands to the US in recent years.

But she has also spent the last three years building a profile on the world stage, most recently at last month’s Ukraine peace talks in Switzerland.

She’s also become the administration’s most prominent messenger on reproductive freedom in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, which marked the end of a half-century-old federal right to an abortion.

Harris’s “reproductive freedom tour” has taken her to events across the country where she has barnstormed events packed with female and minority voters.

Andrew Feinberg reports.

Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle will appear before the House Oversight Committee today to answer questions about the security failings that led to Trump’s shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, nine days ago.

Expect lots of grandstanding from hysterical Republicans.

Meanwhile, here’s Trump saying he was not briefed by the service about the suspect in advance of the attack during an interview he and JD Vance conducted with Jesse Watters of Fox over the weekend.