Hello and welcome to bbc news. We start in the us. Its been less than 48 Hours Sincejoe Biden announced he was pulling out of the president ial race. But Kamala Harris campaign for the White House is building momentum. Yesterday she announced that she had enough support to secure the democratic Partys President ial nomination. Today, shell be in the Critical Swing State of wisconsin making her Case to be Commander In Chief directly to voters for the first time. Ms harris has already been clear about her agenda. On monday evening, she visited what had beenJoe Biden s re Election Campaign Headquarters in delaware to rally the staff who will now be working for her. Her message there that shell continue to push for Gun Control and protection for reproductive rights. For all the latest, heres our North America Correspondent david willis. 24 hours into her new role and Kamala Harris was already on the verge of becoming the first black and asian woman to win the president ial nomination of a
Yesterday, she described the attack as the Secret Services most significant operational Failure in decades. President biden says he plans to appoint a new secret Service Director soon. He hasjust put out a statement thanking Kimberly Cheatle for her years of service and Going On to say the independent review to get to the bottom of what happened onjuly 13 continues and he looks forward to assessing its conclusions. Those are the pictures from Capitol Hill yesterday, and that was a quite extraordinary session of democrats, republicans, putting in question after question to Kimberly Cheatle and getting real Anger And Frustration at some of the answers, the gaps, the obfuscation, and sometimes simply not accepting what she was saying and demanding she resigned. Less than 2a hours later that exactly is what has happened. That News Breaking that she now intends to resign. Just a short while ago i spoke to our correspondent in washington, nomia iqbal, and asked if his resignation was inevita
Its not going to happen overnight. We are fixing the very foundation of our country, and that is long and patient work. But i can announce another step along that road today, another marker of the future, with the launch of a new organisation that we hope will transform notjust how we train our young people and adults, but also, the relationship between business and the education system. A plan to make sure that we are training young people not just for any business, but for the businesses that exist in their communities, the skills that you and they need to take each other forward. So im delighted that today were launching skills england, and appointing Richard Pennycook as the interim chair. The Prime Minister, sir Keir Starmer, launching skills england in the last hour. We will have more on that throughout the day. Four adults and two children have died after a collision involving a car and a motorbike in west yorkshire. It happened on the a61, between wakefield and barnsley, on sun
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