Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent travelling with the Harris campaign

Here in Philadelphia, the Harris team is packing up and getting ready to start another full day on the campaign trail. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that, in the last few weeks of the race, she is visiting states that could be the difference between victory and defeat.

Who she is campaigning with, however, is quite unusual.

The vice-president has scheduled town hall appearances in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin with former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, moderated by Republican strategist Sarah Longwell and conservative commentator Charlie Sykes.

They’re the kind of events that a Republican presidential candidate like Mitt Romney or George W Bush might have held in years past.

Harris is trying to convince independent and Republican voters in the suburbs of those states’ largest cities – Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee – to support the Democratic ticket.

If she can make progress among the college-educated professionals who in the past have backed the Republicans, it could offset gains Trump appears to be making among blue-collar, minority and union voters.

It’s a sign of just how dramatically the coalitions supporting the two major parties are shifting in the era of Donald Trump.

Five men, who were cleared of attacking and sexually assaulting a jogger in New York's Central Park in 1989, have filed a defamation lawsuit today against Donald Trump over comments he made about them during a presidential debate.

Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown and Korey Wise were falsely accused and wrongfully convicted of a brutal assault when they were teenagers, spending between five and 13 years in jail.

They were known as the Central Park Five and were exonerated in 2002 by DNA evidence and another man's confession.

The lawsuit refers to comments Trump made during the debate in September, when Kamala Harris stated that he “took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the execution of five young Black and Latino boys who were innocent".

Trump then responded by stating that the Central Park Five "admitted – they said, they pled guilty. And I said, well, if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately".

In fact, none of the Central Park Five pled guilty and nobody was killed during the assault.

The plaintiff's lawyer said the lawsuit alleges Trump "defamed the Plaintiffs, cast them in a harmful false light and intentionally inflicted emotional distress," adding they wish to correct the record and clear their names once again.

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Elon Musk this weekend pledged to give away $1m (£768,000) a day to registered voters in key swing states until election day on 5 November.

The billionaire, who has pledged his support and financial backing firmly behind Donald Trump, has since delivered two cheques to surprise attendees at town halls in Pennsylvania.

"You don't even have to vote. You don't have to vote," he said in McKees Rocks, near the city of Pittsburgh, on Sunday.

"You just have to sign a petition saying you believe in the Constitution, which if you already believe in the Constitution, you're just signing something you already believe and you can win a million. That's awesome."

But as we reported earlier, Musk's proposal has been met with opposition from Pennsylvania's Democratic governor Josh Shapiro, who has called it a "deeply concerning" scheme that needs to be investigated.

Watch him present the cheque below:

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Speaking on Fox News this morning, Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt says "Democrats are panicking" over polls that Leavitt suggests indicate Donald Trump is beating Kamala Harris in the race for president.

Leavitt also criticises Harris's plans to travel with Republican Liz Cheney on the campaign trail on Monday as the pair seek to appeal to "anti-Trump Republicans".

Leavitt says: "That type of Republican doesn't exist anymore except for Liz Cheney who lost her race... [in the] largest defeat in American history.

"I don't think the American people are listening to what she [Cheney] has to say."

On Monday, Harris and Cheney are scheduled to participate in a series of moderated conversations across the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Cheney, a former congresswoman, has been one of Harris's most visible and outspoken Republican supporters.

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It's just gone 09:00 on the east coast and the campaigning has begun to pick up again, so here’s the latest from the race for the White House:

• Kamala Harris has strongly criticised Donald Trump, accusing him of demeaning the office of president
• While behind the fryer during a campaign stunt in a McDonald's the former president accused Harris of lying about working at the fast food chain as a student
• In two interviews with Fox News he doubled down on describing Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff as "enemies from within"

• Elsewhere, Trump told a Pennsylvania rally that he supports cognitive tests for candidates - after Harris said he is "unstable" and should release his medical records
• He told delegates in Pennsylvania "Christians are under attack", in a bid to encourageearly votesfrom his supporters
• In an interview with MSNBC, Harris said opponents are deploying "mis and disinformation" against her to dissuade people from voting

CBS News' 60 Minutes has dismissed claims of "deceitful editing" from Donald Trump as "false".

The former president alleges that during a sit-down interview with Kamala Harris earlier this month the outlet "replaced" her answer with another in order to "make her look better".

But the programme says it provided an excerpt from the interview to CBS show Face the Nation, which then "used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response."

"The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment," it added before renewing its invite for Trump to appear after he pulled out from his own interview.

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With barely two weeks until election day, neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump appears to have an edge in the presidential race, a new poll suggests.

In the handfull of swing states likely to determine the election, Harris and Trump are tied at 47%, the Washington Post-Schar School poll says.

Those battleground states are Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

The poll suggests Trump is strongest in Arizona - a state Joe Biden won in 2020 - with a six point lead among registered voters.

Harris has her largest margin - six points - in Georgia.

Biden's surprise victory in Georgia in 2020 was the first by a Democrat in decades. It was also Republicans' most narrow defeat.

The BBC is tracking the US election polls here.

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Despite attempts from allies to defend the former president's comments, Donald Trump has doubled down on describing former speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrat Adam Schiff as "enemies from within".

“These are bad people. We have a lot of bad people,” he tells Fox News' MediaBuzz. “But when you look at shifty Schiff and some of the others, yeah, they are to me the enemy from within. I think Nancy Pelosi is an enemy from within.”

Trump allies have been scrambling for over a week to defend him, saying his remarks had been misinterpreted. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Sunday insisted the former president was referring to "marauding gangs" rather than his predecessor and the California senator.

Schiff dismissed his comments on X, while Pelosi’s spokesman Ian Krager said in a statement Trump was “showing himself to be increasingly unhinged and unstable”.

The campaign for Kamala Harris significantly outspent Donald Trump last month, according to records released by the Federal Election Committee (FEC) yesterday.

The Democratic Party presidential candidate has build up a significant financial advantage over the course of the campaign so far, both outraising and outspending her Republican rival in recent months.

The Harris team disclosed to the FEC that her campaign spent $270m (£207m) in September, compared to $78m for Trump.

The vast majority of both of their expenditures went on campaign advertising, as the presidential race entered its final weeks.

Harris has outraised Trump significantly in money raised by small donors as well, with $220m raised compared to his campaign's $63m.

She also has the edge, if by a smaller margin, in cash on hand available to their respective campaigns - entering October with $187m in the bank, while Trump reported $120m.

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With only 15 days to go until election day, Kamala Harris has been focusing on the swing states - those that could reasonably be won by either a Democratic or Republican candidate.

After spending the weekend in Georgia and Michigan, she is expected to start her Monday in Pennsylvania for the first of a series of talks across suburban communities in battleground states.

Harris will join Congresswoman Liz Cheney in Chester County, Pennsylvania, for the first event before heading to Waukesha County, Wisconsin, and Oakland County, Michigan.

Donald Trump is in North Carolina, visiting the city of Asheville to see the full damage Hurricane Helene brought to the state last month.

He the will be moving on to Greenville for a rally this afternoon before attending a meeting of 11th Hour Faith leaders alongside his son Eric and former secretary of housing and urban development Dr Ben Carson in Concord, according to his campaign.

North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher makes sense of the race for the White House in his twice-weekly US Election Unspun newsletter.

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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in Ukraine today to reaffirm Washington's support of President Volodymyr Zelensky - regardless of the presidential election outcome.

His visit is expected to include discussions on how to bolster Kyiv's defences against Russian advances in the east - but not on lifting Washington's restrictions on using US-supplied weapons to hit targets far beyond Ukraine's borders.

Support for Ukraine has split the American political sphere, and doubts have emerged on the extent the next president will support Kyiv once elected.

As it stands, Kamala Harris pledged to support Ukraine “for as long as it takes”. She also ruled out a bilateral meeting with Vladimir Putin to negotiate peace terms unless Kyiv is involved.

Meanwhile Donald Trump said he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours through a negotiated settlement with Russia, a move that Democrats say would embolden Putin.

James Waterhouse
Ukraine correspondent in the Zaporizhzhia region

In this part of south-eastern Ukraine, it was once hoped defending forces would mount a sizeable counter-offensive to force Russia backwards.

Instead, it is Russia widening its own assaults on the front line, and increasing missile strikes on the bruised city of Zaporizhzhia.

One impacted in a residential area a few kilometres away as we loaded the van this morning. It set off car alarms and I suddenly no longer needed a coffee to feel awake.

Last week, the outgoing Biden administration announced a further $425 million military package for Ukraine.

It includes a wide range of missiles, hundreds of air defence systems and thousands of armoured vehicles.

This was America’s 67th offering since the full-scale invasion, and will be delivered over the coming months, during which there will be a new US President.

It’s also been a week where President Zelensky revealed his “victory plan” which calls for an immediate invitation to the NATO military alliance, and for western allies to force Russia to negotiate and completely withdraw, instead of Kyiv ceding territory to Moscow.

While this is a show of unity with substance from [Defense Secretary] Lloyd Austin, it will be the next Presidential administration which decides whether President Zelensky can realise his vision or not.

Sunday saw both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris pull out the big guns - or large fries- for their campaign blitz. Here are some pictures from the day.

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The candidates continued their campaign blitz across key swing states on Sunday.

In Pennsylvania, Donald Trump worked the fryer and drive-thru at a McDonald's in Bucks County.

Meanwhile in Georgia, a Church congregation sang Happy Birthday to Vice-President Kamala Harris as she turned 60.

With only 15 days to go until 5 November, every day is crucial for both Trump and Harris.

If you're just joining our live coverage of the US presidential election, here are the key developments you need to know about:

• Kamala Harris has strongly criticised Donald Trump, accusing him of demeaning the office of president
• Trump used a campaign stunt in a McDonald's to accuse Harris of lying about working at the fast food chain as a student
• Elsewhere, the former president told a Pennsylvania rally that he supports cognitive tests for candidates. It comes after Harris said he is "unstable" and should release his medical records
• Early voting is under way in several states - one million people have already cast their ballot in North Carolina
• Monday is the last day for people to register to vote in Pennsylvania - a key swing state which analysts say could decide the election
• Pennsylvania's Democratic governor has called for an investigation into Elon Musk's plan to give $1m to a voter in swing states every day in a bid to help Trump

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More now on Elon Musk's plan to give $1m (£766,000) a day to a registered voter in key swing states until the US presidential election on 5 November.

The winner will be chosen at random from people who sign a petition set up by the billionaire's campaign group AmericaPAC, which he established to support Donald Trump.

In Pennsylvania, Musk is giving voters $100 for signing the petition, plus another $100 for each person they refer who signs. Voters in other battleground states get $47 per referral.

Some experts believe this strategy to encourage voter registration is illegal and Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro has called for an investigation into the "deeply concerning" scheme.

The BBC has contacted Musk and his campaign group for comment.

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People in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania have less than 24 hours left to register to vote - and you can expect to hear about it from both campaigns today.

Late on Sunday, Donald Trump urged people to sign up, writing on social media "Christians are under attack from this Administration" and encouraging his supporters to vote early.

Both he and Kamala Harris have been campaigning heavily in Pennsylvania, which has a population of 13 million people and carries 19 electoral college votes - making it the joint-sixth most valuable in the electoral college.

Donald Trump secured a pivotal victory over Hilary Clinton there in 2016, winning the state by around 44,000 votes - but was defeated there four years later by 80,000 votes, a key gain for Joe Biden.

At the moment, polling suggests Pennsylvania is too close to call - and both candidates know that without it, their path to victory becomes perilous.

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Reclusive billionaire Timothy Mellon, who inherited a vast banking fortune, spent another $25m supporting Trump in September, new filings with the Federal Election Commission reveal.

Records show Mellon has donated a total of $150m to Make America Great Again Inc during this election cycle - making him Trump's biggest public financial backer.

Wyoming-based Mellon, who rarely gives interviews, was also the biggest donor to the campaign of Robert F Kennedy Jr, who courted conspiracy theorists before he dropped out in August.

Forbes estimates Mellon's family to be worth more than $14.1bn, making them the 34th-wealthiest in the US.

In 2010, he contributed $1.5m towards legal costs in the state of Arizona to defend a controversial anti-immigration bill. More recently, Mellon helped bankroll Texas Governor Greg Abbott's construction of a wall along the Mexican border, providing more than $53m for the project in 2021.

His self-published 2016 autobiography accused black Americans of relying on welfare handouts, and claimed black voters were given "freebies" in exchange for "delivering votes".

We've profiled Mellon before if you would like to read more about him.