Harris and Trump deadlocked in new 2024 presidential election poll: Live updates

President Joe Biden has warned world leaders of the dangers of an expanded war in the Middle East during his final appearance before the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The president, who will leave office in January, delivered what is most likely the final major foreign policy address of his half-century in public life on Tuesday. Just two months ago, he shocked the world by becoming the first American chief executive in a half-century to forgo seeking re-election to a second term.

Andrew Feinberg reports.

Violent crime rates dropped in the United States in 2023, despite Trump claiming that they “through the roof”, according to data in a new FBI report.

Donald Trump’s claim that in the US: “Our crime rate is going up, while crime statistics all over the world are going down”, has now been debunked as false by official FBI data recorded for over 14 million criminal offenses in 2023.

By estimation, violent crime declined by 3 per cent in 2023 compared to the previous year while murders and non-negligent manslaughter crimes decreased by nearly 12 per cent.

Madeline Sherratt looked at the figures.

Donald Trump made a real gaffe during his Pennsylvania rally on Monday when he tried (and failed) to quote William Shakespeare and reignited discussion about his crowd sizes by claiming he draws in more people than Winston Churchill did.

Ironically, the Republican started to set up the blunder by telling his Indiana crowd that Churchill was “this great speaker,” before swiftly comparing his and the famous UK leader’s crowd sizes – a topic he has focused on multiple occasions over the course of his campaign:

“I get much bigger crowds than him but nobody ever says I’m a great speaker.”

Myriam Page reports.

Donald Trump has been mocked over his baffling “word salads” as he addressed his supporters at an election rally in Pennsylvania.

The 78-year-old Republican candidate meandered into strange topic directions – but insisted he is “cognitively very strong”.

Catching himself slipping, Trump reassured his crowd: “I almost said the state of Pennsylvania but I said, I meant the Commonwealth, I never said the state, I was able to catch it because I’m cognitively very strong.”

Madeline Sherratt reports.

Vice President Kamala Harris gave an interview to Wisconsin Public Radio this morning in which she said that she supports the Senate getting rid of the filibuster to pass legislation that codifies abortion protections previously ensured by Roe v Wade before the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.

"I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe," Harris said.

Previously, in 2022, she said she would cast a tie-breaking vote to end the filibuster for reproductive rights. This is the first time she has weighed in on the subject as presidential nominee.

JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, has suggested that the people of Springfield, Ohio, have been prevented from speaking “their truth” after a rumor about the town’s Haitian immigrants was repeatedly and thoroughly debunked.

Haitian immigrants in the town have been baselessly accused of stealing domestic pets, including dogs and cats, and eating them.

Vance has continued to push the claim even after town officials issued denials, and former President Donald Trump aggressively repeated the allegations from the ABC News debate stage on September 10.

The Ohio senator lambasted the media for “debunking” the story during a campaign stop in North Carolina on Monday.

Gustaf Kilander reports.

Journalist Judd Legum, author of the newsletter Popular Information, says he was offered stolen email communications from within the past 10 days.