What was billed as a "no limits" conversation started more than half an hour late, with many people unable to listen in live, in an embarrassing setback for both men.

Officials have urged citizens to make online reports of "threats" from protesters, with rights expert Raisa Urribarri saying pro-government social channels widely sharing footage of arrests are also fueling a "climate of terror".

The aircraft, a French-made ATR 72-500 operated by the airline Voepass, was traveling from Cascavel in southern Parana state to Sao Paulo's Guarulhos international airport when it crashed in the city of Vinhedo.

The poll found Harris had widened her lead since a July 22-23 Reuters/Ipsos survey, which found her up 37 percent to 34 percent over Trump.

Ahead of the November election, researchers have raised alarm that X, formerly Twitter, is a hotbed of political misinformation.

Walz beat out Pennsylvania's popular governor, Josh Shapiro, for the No. 2 role. Shapiro had faced sharp criticism from the left, especially progressive groups and pro-Palestinian activists, over his support for Israel and his handling of college protests sparked by the war in Gaza.

Harris, the US vice president, is expected to announce her selection by Tuesday, ahead of her first scheduled public appearance with her running mate that evening at Temple University in Philadelphia.

All paths to the White House run through a handful of swing states, and Harris will kick off her five-day run Tuesday in the largest -- Pennsylvania -- as she builds momentum for her showdown with Republican Donald Trump on November 5.

Harris, 59, was the sole candidate on the ballot for a five-day electronic vote of nearly 4,000 party convention delegates. The first Black and South Asian woman ever to secure a major party's nomination, she will be officially crowned at a Chicago convention later this month.

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that federal immigration law gives the U.S. Department of Homeland Security broad powers to regulate the conditions of admission into the United States for visa holders.

The lawsuit is the latest US action against TikTok and its Chinese parent over fears the company improperly collects vast amounts of data on Americans for the Chinese government, while influencing content in a way that potentially harms Americans.

Harris is expected to make her choice by Monday ahead of her first public appearance with the new vice presidential nominee on Tuesday in Philadelphia.

Harris, who was the sole candidate on the ballot for a five-day electronic vote of nearly 4,000 party convention delegates, will be officially crowned at a Chicago convention later this month.

On July 24, the planemaker finalized an agreement to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge and pay up to $487 million after breaching a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement.

"She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was Black, until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black," Trump said, drawing a smattering of jeers from an audience of about 1,000 people.

Borrell said the electoral commission had announced the vote results on the basis of 80% of ballots counted, while the Venezuelan opposition had published very different results.

Trump has built a political career on mocking everyone from opponents to his own staffers.

The US and a number of other governments cast doubt on the official vote count. Maduro's opposition rival, Edmundo Gonzalez, asserted that he was the true winner.

The country's electoral authority said just after midnight on Monday that Maduro had won a third term with 51 percent of the vote, despite multiple exit polls which pointed to an opposition win.

The Park Fire had burned more than 141,640 hectares about 144 kilometers north of the state capital city of Sacramento as of Saturday afternoon, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

The blaze was set off by lightning on July 17, and wind gusts up to 100 kilometers per hour drove the flames across brush, timberland and ranches, killing hundreds of cattle, with the fire was only 20 percent contained on Friday, officials said.

The Democratic establishment's most revered power couple waited until all the other heavy hitters had come forward, finally making their move in a video released early Friday that shows Harris taking their call.

The United States and Germany dismissed the need for a global deal on taxing billionaires, an initiative which is backed by France, Spain, South Africa, Colombia and the African Union.

"I revere this office. But I love my country more," the 81-year-old said in an elegiac prime-time address to the nation urging his divided country to embrace democracy and shun hatred.

In an Oval Office address, Biden invoked previous presidents Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln as he described his love for the office that he will leave in six months, capping a half century in public office.

During more than 4-1/2 hours of often contentious proceedings, Cheatle called the July 13 shooting "the most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades," comparing the breakdown to the 1981 attempted assassination of former president Ronald Reagan.

Aiming to become the first woman president in US history, the 59-year-old Harris won the backing of a seemingly unassailable number of Democrats, most notably powerful former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi.