US Elections

Joe Biden has told Americans he pulled out of the race against Donald Trump 'to pass the torch' to the next generation.

Joe Biden isn’t the first sitting US president to abandon a campaign for re-election, Harry Truman did too. Planet America’s John Barron explains.

The US President says nothing can stand in the way of defending democracy and the time is now to pass the torch to younger voices.

Analysis of a laptop that the investigation ties to the shooter revealed on July 6, he did a Google search for  "how far away was Oswald from Kennedy."

In an Oval Office address to explain why he abandoned his re-election bid, Joe Biden said he believes he's earned a second term as US president, but "personal ambition" cannot get in the way of saving democracy.

If Donald Trump is returned to power in November's presidential election, for better or worse, the US is in for a big shake-up — one that could be felt for generations in Australia.  

The two sides of politics in Australia will slug it out over inflation, immigration and energy between now and the election — and both will be closely watching how these issues play out in the US.

Since the end of the presidency of Barack Obama, who was 47 when he took his first oath of office, US politics has not only looked chaotic and unhinged, but tired and exhausted. American democracy has seemed more like an American gerontocracy.  

With Kamala Harris the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, the biggest question looming for the party is who could be her running mate. Here's a look at the names currently in contention to join her on the ticket. 

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he is ready to engage in a debate with Kamala Harris ahead of the presidential election, as the presumptive Democratic nominee kicks off her campaign with a rally in Wisconsin.

It's also the first time the US president has been seen since announcing he's withdrawing from his re-election campaign.

Kimberly Cheatle has resigned from her position after admitting that the attempted assassination amounted to a failure of her mission to protect America's leaders.

Television is regularly declared to be dead, or at least dying. But nobody seems to have told American politics, where TV still wields a bafflingly disproportionate degree of power in what is supposed to be the greatest democracy on Earth.

Where Trump's unfinished wall ends on Jim's ranch you can simply walk across the border into Mexico. It's the centre of a political battle that will shape the US presidential election.

The Director of the Secret Service has admitted the assassination attempt on Donald Trump was the agency's 'most significant failure' in decades.

The field appears to have been cleared for Kamala Harris to replace Joe Biden unchallenged as the Democrats' candidate for US president.

Kamala Harris's campaign says she has secured the support of enough Democratic delegates to become her party's nominee. So how could her campaign against Donald Trump shape up?

Dr Emma Shortis says Kamala Harris's presidential campaign appears to be focusing on reproductive rights and economic inequality.

US Vice President Kamala Harris has said in a statement that she looks forward to formally accepting the democratic party's nomination after securing the support of enough delegates.

Kamala Harris has used a campaign event to frame her fight against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. 

The former US Ambassador to Australia will be meeting with the President and Vice President later this week, and talks to the dangers for Kamala Harris in her campaign ahead. 

'Embrace her, she's the best,' US President Joe Biden praises Kamala Harris in open phone call at campaign event.

A lot has happened in US politics lately, so we don't blame you for not keeping up with the memes. Here's your guide to the biggest references surrounding Kamala Harris, starting with that infamous coconut tree.

Influential Democrat Nancy Pelosi throws her support behind Kamala Harris as the Democrats' nominee for president, but hurdles remain.

Kamala Harris says she is "proud" to have secured the broad support of her party to become the presumptive Democratic nominee, after enough delegates pledge their support for her to win the official vote in August.