Kamala Harris will join President Joe Biden tonight at Andrews Air Force Base to greet the Americans released from detention in Russia. This historic prisoner swap deal has been hailed as a diplomatic victory across the world, with the apparent exception of Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, with just over two weeks to go before the Democratic National Convention, the party's virtual roll call has begun with Harris soon expected to become the party's official nominee. Voting got underway at 9am ET on Thursday and runs through August 5. Harris will announce her running mate next week before embarking on a tour of key battleground states.

On the campaign trail, Harris has rebuked Donald Trump's comments about her race, claiming that he put on the "same old show" and says that "America deserves better". Trump had appeared at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, where he wildly, and falsely, claimed that the vice president only recently "became a Black woman." Harris's father is from Jamaica and her mother is Indian.