Trump appoints JD Vance as his running mate
Donald Trump has appointed Ohio Senator JD Vance as his Vice-Presidential nominee
Two days after an attempt on his life, Donald Trump used the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to announce JD Vance as his running-mate for the 2024 Presidential election. Vance, Senator for Ohio, is a former US Marine and venture capitalist who rose to fame after writing Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir about his family and white working-class background. He initially criticised Trump but has become one of his most ardent supporters.
Here in the UK the government is preparing to set out its legislative agenda in the King's Speech on Wednesday. It will include a new law to make a specific criminal offence of spiking. We speak to a campaigner and victim who welcome the move.
And a year since it was illegally felled, one artist has set out to preserve the touch of the Sycamore Gap tree.
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