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Vice President Kamala Harris has been the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for a whopping… checks notes… five days. We weren’t alive in 1968 when President Lyndon Johnson chose not to run again, but from the accounts of those closest to Johnson, it was a more orderly process.

It’s been a rough week for big tech and chip-maker stocks.

New world records are usually a cause for celebration, but not this one: Earth had its hottest day on record on Monday after average surface air temperatures hit 17.16°C (62.8°F), beating the previous record set just 24 hours earlier.

Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro has warned that his own re-election this Sunday is the only way to “avoid a bloodbath, or a fratricidal civil war triggered by the fascists”, triggering a rare rebuke from Brazil’s President Lula next door.