Both parties will try to use the shooting for campaign advantage by tapping into voters’ emotions. How they do so could be pivotal.

There have been a series of tipping points in the campaign so far, and this may well be the decisive one. It could turn Trump from a martyr to a saint in the eyes of his supporters.

Labour’s Keir Starmer becomes the new UK prime minister after 14 years of Conservative rule.

Polling hasn’t improved for the UK’s Conservatives throughout the campaign. meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron appears to be heading for electoral disaster.

The US is relying more on its alliances in the Middle East in order to pull back a bit. This will likely continue no matter who is in the White House next year.

There are many parallels between 1968 and today: an unpopular war, a vulnerable Democratic presidential candidate and a divided America.

Kim Beazley, a former Labor leader and Australia's ambassador in Washington joins us to talk about Donald Trump's denigrating comments about Kevin Rudd, AUKUS and the Australia-Chinese relationship.

As the Trump v Biden contest shapes up ahead of the US presidential election in November, the polls are not favourable to the incumbent president.

The former president’s political obituary has been written many times over the past decade. Yet his support among Republicans has rarely dipped below 70%.

It’s difficult to know to what extent the massive repayment a New York judge has handed down to Donald Trump might affect his campaign. But his die-hard supporters are likely to be unfazed.

While two-party preferred polling is steady, a majority of Australians support Labor’s changes to the stage 3 tax cuts.

Whatever its decision, the court risks once again being seen as politically partisan.

Democrats now have an issue to mobilise voters. For Republicans, however, it’s more complicated.

Iowa and New Hampshire have long cemented their status as the first-in-the-nation deciders in presidential nominating contests. This outsized influence has increasingly come under scrutiny.

The result confirms the vast majority of Republican voters are still infatuated with the former president, despite his legal troubles and how little campaigning he’s done thus far.