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Kamala Harris, like Joe Biden, is a champion of decency. However, she is prone to mis-steps and gaffes, writes Michael Deasy

Letter: ​Simple manoeuvres may decide US election result

The Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he is suspending his presidential campaign at a news conference on Friday, Aug 23, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Darryl Webb)

Ben Lowry: Kamala was ahead in White House race but now RFK gives Trump a boost

Emblems on the Meenan Square bonfire. (Photo: Facebook)

Bishop McKeown pleads for 'calm' ahead of bonfires being lit in Londonderry

Veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott has said she believes the new UK government should call a border poll. She said it would establish where public opinion lies on both sides of the Irish border

Letter: Unionists shouldn't be angered over Abbott border poll call

The then DUP MPs Ian Paisley, Sammy Wilson, the Tory Sir John Hayes MP and Paul Girvan MP, send message of support to Donald Trump from the Houses Parliament in September 2020. Some unionists are pro Trump for tactical reasons while a smaller but significant number of unionists are all-round Trump supporters

Ben Lowry: NI should not expect much from Trump or Kamala Harris

President Joe Biden pauses as he concludes his address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington last week. He is still in office but has dropped his presidential re-election bid

Letter: Joe Biden needs to leave office now

Morning View

Editorial: Biden had to quit race, but doing so late makes it hard for his party

US President Joe Biden speaks from the Roosevelt Room of the White House alongside Vice President Kamala Harris last week a day after former president Donald Trump survived an apparent assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Joe Biden abandons his bid to be re-elected US president, backs Kamala Harris

Republican vice presidential candidate Senator JD Vance, R-Ohio, and his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance arrive on the floor during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum, on Monday in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump's running mate made his name writing about Americans of Ulster descent

Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024.(Photo by REBECCA DROKE/AFP via Getty Images)

Starmer joins world leaders and Biden in condemning shooting bid on Trump

US President Joe Biden has congratulated Sir Keir Starmer for his victory in the General Election

US President Joe Biden congratulates Sir Keir Starmer after GE victory

The Spirit Aerosystems factory in east Belfast (as seen on Google Maps)

Calls grow for American administration to step in over Spirit Aerosystems

The engine of the QantasLink Airbus A220 is seen on February 22, 2024 in Sydney, Australia; the Belfast plant of Spirit makes the A220's wings

Spirit-Boeing-Airbus deal: Fears for thousands of NI jobs

Letters to editor

Letter: A proverb for Donald Trump and Joe Biden

A man in Arizona in a cowboy hat watches the debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump on TV. Ben Lowry was watching in Belfast, terrified that Mr Biden was so mentally fragile he would make some humiliating blunder (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Ben Lowry: I was nervous wreck watching Biden - his decline was clear in Belfast

President Joe Biden during a presidential debate with Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump

Trump and Biden spar on economy and abortion at first presidential debate

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump sparred over the economy, abortion and the Capitol riot at the first presidential debate of the 2024 US election cycle.

Associated Press Reporters

President Joe Biden speaks during a presidential debate hosted by CNN with Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump

Biden’s halting debate performance stirs Democratic panic about his candidacy

Letters to editor

Letter: At least US doesn't face a leader whose party is controlled by cabal

Paul Young in Arromanches for the D-Day 80th commemorations

UK veterans delighted with warm reception in France, but not 'disrespectful' PM

King Charles III speaks to D-Day veteran Peter Newton (left), 99, during a lunch following the UK national commemorative event for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, held at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, Normandy, France

King speaks of ‘profound’ gratitude to D-Day veterans on 80th anniversary

An angry Donald Trump speaks after a jury convicted him of felony crimes for falsifying business records on Thursday. It was already clear that he was a man of bad character. Meanwhile it has been obvious for years that Joe Biden's memory and mental faculties have been declining (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

Ben Lowry: The US presidential election nightmare choice of Biden or Trump

Morning View

Editorial: As President Biden says, the ICC move against Israel is outrageous​

Protesters take part in an anti-immigration protest in the centre of Dublin on Monday May 6. President Joe Biden is likely to be taken aback when the State Department tells him about the anti-immigrant anger in his beloved ‘Ireland of the Welcomes’. Pic: Evan Treacy/PA Wire

Ruth Dudley Edwards: ​Migrants come to Ireland because it's softer even than UK

Morning View

Editorial: US sees sense and passes aid package for Ukraine

First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly meet with President Joe Biden in the China Room of the White House, Washington DC. The ministers travelled to the United States during the St Patrick's Day celebrations in Washington. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

DUP focus on 'relentlessly promoting NI' in Washington

President Joe Biden at a bilateral meeting with taoiseach Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC

President Biden hails Stormont return as ‘positive step forward’

First Minister Michelle O'Neill (left) and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly are the focus of an event in Washington. Photo credit should read: Oliver McVeigh/PA Wire

O’Neill and Little-Pengelly ‘the focus’ in Washington DC event

Northern Ireland is set to be the focus of a gala dinner event in Washington DC as First Minister Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly address guests.

By Cillian Sherlock, PA, in Washington, and Rebecca Black

WASHINGTON, DC

Northern Ireland’s leaders head stateside for first international visit

A former high-profile fashion model has become one of the most respected and in-demand photographers in Northern Ireland. Collette O’Neill was crowned Northern Ireland Photographer of the Year 2004 from the Professional Photographers Association Northern Ireland (PPANI)

Former model moves behind the lens to be crowned Photographer of the Year

Morning View

Editorial: Vital UK funding for Ukraine is only a small fraction of our wealth

Belfast City Hall.

Sinn Fein rejects call to boycott St Patrick's Day White House visit

Letters to editor

Letter: Scores of US firms on the way to Northern Ireland

King Charles III and Queen Camilla arriving to attend a church service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, Norfolk, on Sunday, February 4, 2024.. The King has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and has begun a schedule of regular treatments, and while he has postponed public duties he “remains wholly positive about his treatment”, Buckingham Palace said

King undergoes treatment for cancer after shock diagnosis

King Charles III and Queen Camilla departing The London Clinic in central London, where King Charles had undergone a procedure for an enlarged prostate last month. The King has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and has begun a schedule of regular treatments, and while he has postponed public duties he 'remains wholly positive about his treatment', Buckingham Palace said

King diagnosed with cancer, Palace announces

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps speaks to the media outside BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Photo: Maja Smiejkowska/PA Wire

UK ‘disappointed’ at Israeli PM comments

PABest Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is welcomed by President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) on Friday to the Presidential Palace in Kyiv, Ukraine, to announce £2.5 billion in military aid to the country over the coming year. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Ben Lowry: Sunak Kyiv visit is part of UK-US support for Ukraine and Israel

Jim Allister says Invest NI have previously given out detailed investment data - and has described their decision not to release figures on investment under the Windsor Framework as "curious".

TUV question ‘curious’ Invest NI decision

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled the Windsor Framework early last year. Invest NI - the body tasked with attracting foreign direct investment into Northern Ireland - says it cannot divulge specific numbers as it's commercially sensitive and would give competitors an "insight into our pipeline". Photo: PA.

Windsor Framework: Invest NI can’t disclose 'sensitive' figures

Television presenter Pamela Ballantine, who has been made an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for charitable fundraising in Northern Ireland, at her home in Belfast.

UTV star Pamela Ballantine and actor James Martin recognised in New Year Honours

A huge policing operation was put in place for the arrival of US President Joe Biden in Belfast earlier this year. President Biden is pictured here on his way to Ulster University in Belfast.

PSNI shouldn't face bill for GFA events - Nesbitt

The judgment call on border poll rests with the secretary of state. According to the Belfast Agreement, a poll should be held, if at any time ‘it appears likely’ to the secretary of state that a majority of voters here want to become part of a separatist all-Ireland republic. That decision is entirely at the minister’s discretion and there is no need for him to set out any criteria

Letter:​ Threshold for success in any border poll should be raised

Families and friends of about 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza yesterday calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring them home during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel

Israeli Cabinet approves ceasefire with Hamas that includes release of hostages

Launching the Belfast City & Region Place Partnership are councillor Clíodhna Nic Bhranair, chair of city growth and regeneration committee, Belfast City Council, Joe O’Neill, chair of the Belfast City & Region Place Partnership and chief executive of Belfast Harbour, Nick Walkley, principal and UK president, Avison Young and Jenny Jackson-Smyth, architects of change, Ulster University

Belfast City & Region Place Partnership paves the way for collaborative growth

The US ambassador to the UK Jane Hartley, bottom left on the stairs, and party leaders including Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, top left, descend into the Great Hall at Stormont as part of the US Business Delegation event on Wednesday October 25 2023. The DUP leader could hardly have stayed away. Image taken from Northern Ireland Assembly @niassembly X feed

Ben Lowry: Unionists in no mood to listen to American pressure about Stormont

Sinn Fein's Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill and party colleague Conor Murphy speak to the media after a breakfast with US investors at the Titanic Centre, Belfast. Photo: David Young/PA Wire

Use US trade delegation visit as spur to bring Stormont back – O’Neill

Joe Kennedy III chaired a special Belfast/Good Friday Agreement Panel discussion in Parliament Buildings with panel members Gerry Adams, Eileen Bell (pictured), Mark Durkan, Peter Robinson and Lady Daphne Trimble. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

US special envoy Joe Kennedy announces £3.8m investment by US company

Harland & Wolff welcomed to its Belfast shipyard Joseph Kennedy III

Senior US business delegation to visit Northern Ireland

This image provided by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of al-Ahli Hospital after explosion in Gaza City

Hospital strike in Gaza caused by missile heading towards Israel, says Sunak

A baby rocking chair is left in a house that was destroyed in a battle between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants in Be'eri, Israel

Sandra Chapman on the infants killed in the Israel–Gaza conflict

Morning View

Editorial: Rishi Sunak has done UK proud in his unwavering support for Israel

This image provided by Maxar Technologies on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023 shows an overview of al-Ahli Hospital after explosion in Gaza City. (Satellite image ©2023 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Rishi Sunak to visit Israel as UK probes hospital blast

A pro-Palestinian event was held in Belfast city centre at the weekend. The demonstration took place just hours after the Palestinian terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented assault into Israel, killing hundreds of people

Letter: ​How can anyone support Hamas attacks?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shakes hands with supporters during a Ukrainian-Canadian rally at Fort York on September 22, 2023 in Toronto, Canada. Zelensky visited Canada for the first time in person since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, ending a North American trip that started with a visit to the U.S. (Photo by Katherine KY Cheng/Getty Images)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stops off in Ireland

Lyndon with President Joe Biden

A Banbridge diplomat lifts the lid on flying the flag for NI in Washington DC

Ex President Trump steps off his plane in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday. He faces seven trials, which will have him in and out of court in 2024 even if he does not end up in jail. That Mr Trump surrendered to the Georgia authorities for trying to overturn that state’s 2020 election results showed that he cannot evade the legal process (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Ben Lowry: We have big political problems in NI but America's might be worse