House Speaker Mike Johnson tells CBS News that Congress's return to session "can wait" amid concerns about funding for hurricane relief.

"Before Hurricane Helene made landfall... Congress appropriated $20bn (£15.3bn) to Fema [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] so that they would have the resources to address immediate needs," Johnson said.

"I just checked this morning, less than 2% of that funding has been distributed."

After Hurricane Helene and Milton hit the US back-to-back, killing hundreds, there have been concerns about Fema's ability to provide enough aid to the embattled US southeast.

The storms brought devastating winds and flood waters to multiple states, including Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

In the its wake, lawmakers have called on Congress to return from their pre-election break to approve additional funding while demands on Fema remain extremely high.

Johnson said Congress will return to session as planned and address the need for more funding after states have completed their reports assessing the storm's damage.

In Florida, Biden said he had been "talking to the Congress to see if they can get the money quickly.

"It's important."

Donald Trump attended a roundtable discussion with Latinos in the increasingly important swing state of Nevada on Saturday.

Kamala Harris appeared in a town hall held by the Spanish-language network Univision two days earlier, in Arizona.

Both candidates are upping their efforts to court Latino voters this election season, spending millions of dollars on targeted ads and making direct appeals.

The New York Times (NYT) released a poll on Sunday that suggested Democrats are losing Latino voters' support, holding a 19-point lead over Republicans.

It's the smallest margin since 2016, according to the NYT's poll.

Donald Trump says he isn't expecting disruption on election day.

Earlier this week, an Afghan national was arrested and charged in connection with an alleged plot to carry out a terror attack on election day in support of the Islamic State group.

Asked whether he was concerned about the potential for unrest, Trump told Fox: "I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within.

"We have some very bad people. We have some sick people - radical left lunatics.

“It should be very easily handled by, if necessary, [the] National Guard. Or if really necessary by the military, because they can’t let that happen."

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If you're just joining us, here's the latest as both parties hit the campaign trail hard on this Sunday, making multiple TV appearances and campaign stops.

• Republican candidate Donald Trump made an appearance on Fox News and backed his economic proposal to raise tariffs on imports as high as 500% to "protect" the US auto industry, he said, despite experts warning of potential negative consequences
• Trump also made remarks on Fox News about his growing appeal to black male voters, telling Maria Bartiromo to look at the polls which suggest he's winning over the historically Democratic-supporting group
• Kamala Harris stopped in hurricane-hit North Carolina, where she is seeking to regain support, particularly among black voters
• US President Joe Biden travelled to the Tampa area in Florida to survey the damage of Hurricane Milton, urging people to "come together" after some Republicans have sought to politicise the event
• House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke with CBS News and said Congress would return to session after their pre-election break as previously planned - and not sooner for disaster relief negotiations - because the US government had only used 2% of billions of dollars recently appropriated
• Trump's running mate JD Vance denied that he and Trump would defund Planned Parenthood, while Harris's running mate Tim Walz denied that Democrats wanted to take away people's firearms
• Former President Bill Clinton joined the campaign trail, too, making a stop at a church in the battleground state Georgia to urge voters to support Harris

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Kamala Harris's running mate Tim Walz defends the vice president's views on stricter gun control laws and whether they clash with the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.

"No-one’s coming for your guns," Walz said in a Fox News interview on Sunday, after he was asked about Harris's previous support for a mandatory gun buy-back program.

"I continue to buy them. The vice president is a gun owner. So many of your viewers are."

He did, however, advocate for stronger gun laws, including background checks and so-called red-flag laws, while emphasising the need to reduce school shootings.

Trump has claimed that Harris would "confiscate everybody's gun", if elected.

On Saturday, Walz was photographed in hunting gear holding a shotgun in rural Minnesota, a continuation of his efforts to make inroads with pro-gun Republicans wary of Democrats and gun control laws.

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Former President Bill Clinton has joined the Democratic campaign trail to support Kamala Harris.

Clinton told attendees at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Georgia that he would also be campaigning in swing states "for [his] three grandchildren".

"Every election is important but this one really does belong to them," he adds. Former President Barack Obama lent his support to the Harris ticket early this week as we've been reporting.

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Vice-President Kamala Harris attended services on Sunday morning at Koinonia Christian Center, a predominantly black church in Greenville, North Carolina.

Today marks her second consecutive day making stops in the key battleground state, where Democrats are hoping to pull off an upset. Only one Democratic presidential candidate has won the state since 1980.

Speaking to the congregation, Harris condemned comments from her Republican opponents in the wake of Hurricane Helene, some of whom she accused of "channeling peoples’ tragedies and sorrows into grievances and hatred" by politicising the deadly storm.

The vice-president is expected to win the overwhelming majority of black voters, even though polls suggest her support from them is lower than in it was for Joe Biden in 2020.

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Fox News's Maria Bartiromo asks Trump if there are particular demographics he's speaking to when he's making his rounds across the battleground states.

"Well you see the polls with black men," Trump responds, referencing polls which suggest he is gaining ground among the typically Democratic-leaning voting bloc.

Democrats have noticed the sinking numbers, too.

Earlier this week, former President Barack Obama had a stern message for black male voters when he stopped to speak at a campaign office in Pennsylvania, a highly contested battleground state.

Obama said he had a "problem with that".

"I’m speaking to men directly," he said. "Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that."

Polls suggest immigration is an issue on which Republicans have a lead among voters, and Donald Trump has made it a central pillar of his election campaign.

Earlier, we reported that JD Vance appeared on ABC on Sunday to defend his running mate's suggestion that Venezuelan gangs had "invaded and conquered" Aurora, Colorado.

It followed a misleading claim from Trump earlier this month that 13,000 convicted murderers had entered the US during the Biden administration and were being allowed to "openly roam our country".

Read BBC Verify's piece on that claim and what government figures show about immigration and crime here.

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After inspecting areas most-affected by Hurricane Milton last week, President Biden urged Americans to "come together" to help people in Florida.

"It's at moments like this we come together to take care of each other, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans," he told reporters.

"Americans who need help, and Americans who would help you if you were in the same situation. We are one United States."

He went on to thank emergency workers who had travelled to Florida from other parts of the country to help with clean-up efforts.

"This is all a team effort, folks. We made a big difference and it saved lives. But there's much more to do," he said.

"We're going to do everything we can to get power back in your home, not only helping you recover, but to help you build back stronger."

Rowan Bridge
North America correspondent, Washington DC

What was perhaps most notable about President Biden’s comments after touring Florida was not what he said, but what he didn’t.

This was Biden as healer-in-chief.

His comments focused on what people had lost.

And he paid tribute to all those who had come together to help "not as Republicans or Democrats but as Americans".

That tone is in contrast to the way disaster relief has become caught up in the battle for votes.

Donald Trump has claimed emergency relief money for hurricane victims has been spent on migrants, something the White House has rebutted.

In the past it has described Republicans as spreading "bold faced lies".

But Mr Biden clearly decided this wasn’t the time or place to touch on such issues.

Read BBC Verify's fact-checking of Trump's claims about disaster relief and migrants.

The latest polls show the US presidential race remains close, even though Kamala Harris maintains a small lead.

The national polling average from the New York Times this morning has Harris on 49% and Donald Trump on 47%, a gap that has been fairly consistent since the start of August.

Harris also maintains slim leads in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada, although the gap in all four has been narrowing, while Trump leads in North Carolina, Georgia, and Arizona.

A new CNN poll also has Harris on 49% and Trump on 47%.

The latest poll from CBS News gives Harris 51% to Trump's 48% nationally, but the lead narrows to only one point in the battleground states, where Harris has 50% support and Trump has 49%.

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Black men won't back Donald Trump in "significant numbers" this November, Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock says.

Recent polls have shown that a majority of black Americans plan to vote for Kamala Harris, but levels of support appear to be considerably lower than they were for the Democratic ticket at previous elections.

A poll by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in September found that one in four black men under 50 said they would support Trump over Harris.

Speaking on CNN's State of the Union, Warnock, who represents the key swing state of Georgia, said: “Black men are not going to vote for Donald Trump in any significant numbers.

“There’ll be some. We’re not a monolith."

Speaking with Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox News's Sunday Futures, Donald Trump defends his economic plan to significantly raise tariffs.

The plan has received much criticism, including from conservative-leaning Wall Street Journal (WSJ) which reported that Trump's idea of raising tariffs - by 200% - could have severe negative affects.

When Bartiromo asked about the WSJ's report, Trump said the tariffs were going to bring car manufacturing back to the US and "protect" US automakers.

"I'll put 200 or 500%, I don't care, until they can't sell one car here. I don't want them hurting our car companies," Trump said.

"We're not going to let them sell cars from a nice new factory, owned by China, located in Mexico... and destroy what car companies we have left," Trump said.

"We have the golden market. We have the money. If we keep running like we have for the last three to four years, we're going to lose all of that."

Rowan Bridge
North America correspondent, Washington DC

President Biden has arrived in Florida and is taking a helicopter tour of some of the areas affected by hurricane Milton which slammed into the state on Wednesday.

It brought with it winds of more than an 100mph (160km/h) and up to 18in (46cm) of rain in places. At least 23 people were killed.

During the visit, Biden is due to meet some of those who live in the areas affected as well as those who’ve been helping with the clear-up.

His visit is expected to have a political element, too, though, with the trip offering a chance for the president to press Congress to approve more aid money before the election on 5 November.

Congress isn’t currently due to return until after the vote and there are concerns funding for some schemes could run out before then.

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JD Vance, Trump's running mate, defended the former president's false claims that Venezuelan gangs were taking over Aurora, Colorado.

Vance said there has "got to be some element of truth there" when he was asked by ABC's Martha Raddatz on Sunday if he supported Trump's claims, even after Aurora's Republican mayor said Trump's remarks were "grossly exaggerated".

The Trump-Vance campaign have made immigration one of their key focal points when attacking the Democrats' record, playing to their strengths and the polls that suggest immigration is an issue where Republicans lead.

Both Trump and Vance have been accused over exaggerating the affects of immigration, however.

Vance was heavily criticised for his remarks that Haitian immigrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, which the town's mayor denied, but which Trump later repeated on national television in his debate with Harris.

The 2024 election will be on Tuesday, 5 November 2024.

The winner will serve a term of four years in the White House, starting in January 2025.

The president has the power to pass some laws on their own but mostly they must work with Congress to pass legislation.

On the world stage, the US leader has considerable freedom to represent the country abroad and to conduct foreign policy.

Donald Trump is reportedly scheduled to appear on Fox News on Sunday morning, while his running mate, JD Vance, is expected to appear on the same network plus a segment on ABC News.

Governor Tim Walz, Kamala Harris's running mate, is also reportedly scheduled to appear on Fox.

The TV appearances have been squeezed between busy on-the-ground campaign schedules.

Both parties are in full swing with only three weeks until election day.

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Donald Trump held a rally in Coachella, California, on Saturday, a deep-blue (Democratic-leaning) state the Republican candidate is unlikely to win.

However, he was there to help Republicans in competitive races for the lower House of Representatives and to rally support among key demographics, including the city's large Latino population.

Here are some of the key lines:

• The former president said he would fight for "hard-working citizens of every race, religion, color and creed"
• He continued his attacks on Democrats, saying: "I've come here today not only to talk about California, where you have one of the worst governors in the country, Gavin Newsom, but you definitely had somebody here that was horrible - Kamala... and now she wants to destroy our country"
• "California's really is a paradise lost, but we're going to bring it back"

We're back with coverage of the presidential campaign - 22 days until the election.

President Joe Biden is on his way to Florida on Sunday to view the damage after a deadly hurricane tore through the state last week.

His visit to the Sunshine State is happening amid a busy political campaign stretch.

Democratic nominee Kamala Harris arrived to storm-stricken North Carolina yesterday for campaign stops, which included helping with Hurricane Helene relief efforts, and will be back there today.

Also on Sunday, Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona. It's a continuation of his west coast campaign efforts, having held campaign events on Saturday in California and Nevada.