Former President George HW Bush has been released from a Houston hospital where he received treatment for pneumonia for more than two weeks.

DESPITE narrowing but still fluctuating margins, FBI leaks on incomplete investigations into Hillary Clinton’s unwise, possibly illegal, email policy while she was Barack Obama’s secretary of state and a 24/7 conveyor belt of scandal and relentless greed; despite Donald Trump’s racism, boorishness, ignorance, misogyny, contempt for truth and his country’s constitution, today America must choose one of those insecure, frightened people to be their president for the rest of this decade and beyond.

US presidents vary between authoritarian figures and nappy changers, writes Olivia Kelleher

Former US president George HW Bush has criticised one-time defence chief Donald Rumsfeld and former vice president Dick Cheney in a new biography.