The Latest Breaking News from George HW Bush

With everything else that is going on in US politics, it would be easy to forget the 40th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s landslide re-election in 1984.

For a fleeting moment in early October, it looked like the US presidential electoral system might become an issue in this year’s election. The Democratic vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz, told two audiences that the Electoral College should be abolished and replaced by a direct national popular vote.

Netanyahu’s allegation that Iran controls all of Lebanon is a ploy to stoke another disastrous sectarian civil war there

House of Trump, House of Putin author sees dark parallels between 2024 and a 1980 election beset by foreign intrigue

ANALYSIS: There may not have been a knockout blow in the vice presidential debate, but Vance’s answer to the last question couldn’t have been more revealing, writes Andrew Feinberg

The first president Jimmy Carter was alive for, William Taft, signed New Mexico into Statehood in 1912

While Dick Cheney has endorsed Harris, there have been no comments from other senior Republicans from Bush’s era

As the two presidential candidates entered the debate stage, Kamala Harris strode across it and offered her hand to Donald Trump to shake, setting a confident tone that didn’t flag throughout the debate.

Neither Bush nor his wife Laura Bush plans to publicly share who they will vote for.