Joe Biden’s life was forged in the school of hard knocks while Donald Trump enjoyed a privileged upbringing, with an obvious effect on the men’s politics, writes Bette Browne

Republican Donald Trump trails Democrat Hillary Clinton by 10 points in the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a poll, showing little change from a week ago and suggesting his comments about a Mexican-American judge had yet to affect his standing in the race.

Claiming her place in history, Hillary Clinton declared victory in her bruising battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming the first woman to lead a major American political party.

Clinton has secured the Democratic nomination, but the campaign to be president promises to be a knock-down drag-out affair with Donald Trump, says Bette Browne

 How did a kitschy, carnival performer propel himself to the brink of power in the most powerful country in the world? asks Bernard-Henri Lévy

New York’s attorney general has sued Donald Trump for $40m (€30m), saying the real estate mogul helped run a phoney “Trump University” that promised to make students rich but instead steered them into expensive and mostly useless seminars, and even failed to deliver promised apprenticeships.