Good morning,Thirty years after his first bid, Joe Biden formally accepted the Democratic nomination for presidential candidate on Thursday , at the culmination of this year’s party convention, months of primaries and a decades-long quest for Biden. In his acceptance speech, which won praise from across the political spectrum, Biden pledged to be an “an ally of the light” and “end this season of darkness in America”. Without mentioning Donald Trump by name, Biden accused the president of failing “in his most basic duty to the nation”, and described his handling of the coronavirus pandemic as “unforgivable” in the light of figures that show the US as having a quarter of the world’s cases of the virus and almost 175,000 dead. The speech was reminiscent of an “ageing heavyweight boxer who got himself in shape, climbed back into the ring, and landed a knockout punch,” writes David Smith. However, the Democratic national convention also drew criticism from climate activists including Greta Thunberg, who said the party had not taken a strong enough line on the climate crisis, while allies of Biden insisted he is committed to tackling it. The number of people applying for unemployment benefits climbed back over 1 million last week as coronavirus continued to ravage the US labor market. Trump’s former campaign manager Steve Bannon has pleaded not guilty after being arrested for allegedly siphoning money off a fundraising campaign for the president’s infamous border wall with Mexico. Federal prosecutors in New York claim that Bannon received more than $1m (£760,000) from a non-profit organisation he controlled and used “at least” some of this to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal expenses. After the confirmation of his bail conditions, a $5m bond which prevents him from travelling on private planes, boats or yachts, a sunburnt Bannon told reporters that the “entire fiasco is to stop people who want to build the wall”.

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