Immigration
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday instituted a broad asylum ban on migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, a major enforcement move in the run-up to November elections that will decide control of the White House.
Migrants seeking asylum in the United States try to cross a razor wire fence deployed to inhibit their crossing into the U.S., as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez - World
Arizona voters will be able to decide in the Nov. 5 election if they support or reject a Republican-led measure that would make it a crime to cross the state border from Mexico and allow state judges to order deportations.
- Explainer
Donald Trump is blaming migrants in the U.S. illegally for fueling violent crime as part of his campaign to win back the White House, repeating rhetoric used during his previous run for the presidency. But studies show immigrants are not more likely to engage in criminality.
The Proud Boys are back. Four years after the failed effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat, the violent all-male extremist group that led the storming of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, is rebuilding and regaining strength.
[1/4]A member of the far-right Proud Boys stands for a portrait before a campaign rally for former U.S. president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Wildwood, New Jersey, May 11, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart- Legal
A Georgia appeals court will hear arguments in October on whether to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting Donald Trump for trying to overturn his 2020 defeat, a schedule that will likely postpone that trial until after the Nov. 5 election.
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President Joe Biden on Monday for the first time called former President Donald Trump a "convicted felon" who poses a higher threat to the United States if he wins another term - the most biting attack on his opponent's legal troubles to date.
The Campaign Trail
Biden has three preferred topics, according to a campaign memo viewed by Reuters: abortion rights, the state of democracy and the economy.
October 22, 2020. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/Pool - World
Typically, if your political opponent is convicted of a felony, it's considered a rare gift.
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Andrea Dyess, 57, was already a Joe Biden fan, but after meeting him in her neighborhood of Racine, Wisconsin, in May, she has been talking to anyone who will listen about giving him four more years in the White House.
Voters' Perspectives
Polling
What do polls really tell us? Like a picture from a weather satellite, a poll can be pretty good at telling you what people think right now. It's much harder to tell what people will be doing weeks or months from now.
A pixelated composite image of Bident and Trump portraits facing each other with the words “Polling in 2024” across their eyes. - World
Biden's support among voters without a four-year degree is down 10 percentage points compared to this point in the 2020 campaign, an analysis of Reuters/Ipsos polls shows.
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U.S. President Joe Biden had a marginal 2 percentage point lead over Republican challenger Donald Trump in the race to win the November presidential election, following Trump's historic conviction by a jury on charges he falsified business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Friday.
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Explainers
President Joe Biden, a Democrat, faces former President Donald Trump, a Republican, in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, a rematch that most Americans do not want. The two men are sharply divided on the role the U.S. government should play in American lives and the world at large, and on issues from abortion rights to trade.
Comparing Biden and Trump on key issues - World
An analysis of the demographic composition of independent voters and which issues are most important to them.
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Legal battles over redistricting could lead to new congressional maps for the 2024 election in more than half a dozen states, potentially affecting control of the U.S. House of Representatives, where Republicans currently hold a 217-213 advantage over the Democratic minority.
The counter-intuitive fossil fuel boom under Biden reflects an awkward truth for his supporters and detractors alike ahead of the November elections, proving that what happens in globally interconnected markets like oil and gas is often well outside the immediate control of the person in the White House.
- Technology
The president of U.S. crypto firm Ripple is "optimistic" that a lobbying push by the crypto industry will yield results in this year's U.S. elections, after her company helped the industry lead a record fundraising haul to back political candidates who are crypto-friendly.
- ANALYSIS
Donald Trump last week became the first former president convicted of a felony, but Wall Street believes he still has a solid chance of winning the November election and is gaming out how a second term for the Republican candidate could impact markets.
