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Trump held a small advantage in the seven states where the 2020 presidential election was closest: Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Nevada and Michigan. In those states, Trump led with 41% to Biden's 35%, and 24% undecided reut.rs/3RomMmn 5/5

Trump remains politically viable despite a battery of federal and state criminal charges revolving around his attempts to overturn Biden's 2020 election win and his mishandling of classified documents since leaving office 4/5

Democrats held a strong advantage among voters most concerned about protecting abortion rights, while Republicans had an edge among those worried about crime, the poll found 3/5

The opinion poll found Democrat Biden, 80, tied in a hypothetical November 2024 election against Trump, 77, the former president who is the front-runner for the Republican nomination, with both receiving 39% of the vote and one in five voters undecided 2/5

US President Joe Biden's chances of re-election are being jeopardized by voters' concerns over his age, the economy and crime, according to a @Reuters/Ipsos poll, creating an opportunity for Republican Donald Trump to return to the White House reut.rs/3RomMmn 1/5

Exclusive: The United States believes a surface-to-air missile originating from inside Russia likely shot down the plane presumed to be carrying mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, two US officials told @Reuters reut.rs/3QTzw4n 1/3

Vlatko Andonovski has stepped down as coach of the United States women's national team, US Soccer confirmed, after the four-time champions produced their worst-ever performance at a Women's World Cup, exiting in the round of 16 reut.rs/3YG47nH

Death threats from angry Trump supporters forced Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman, a 62-year-old grandmother, to flee her home of 20 years. Some messages called for her hanging; one urged people to ‘hunt’ her reut.rs/47zhWIU

Trump and his team spun a sprawling voter-fraud fiction, casting two rank-and-file election workers, a mother and her daughter, as the main villains. The women endured months of death threats and racist taunts – and one went into hiding reut.rs/3s7XmPv

After defendants in Georgia are indicted by a grand jury, they are arraigned. Defendants are also asked to enter a plea. Trump's attorney could ask the court to waive the arraignment, and he could enter a plea of not guilty without appearing in court reut.rs/47vFazy

Former US President Donald Trump was hit with criminal charges when a Georgia grand jury issued a sweeping indictment accusing him of trying to overturn the 2020 election result reut.rs/3KEXgFs Here's how his claims impacted Georgia's election workers and what's next 👇

Pfizer/BioNTech SE, Moderna and Novavax have all created new versions of their vaccines updated to target another Omicron sublineage - XBB.1.5 - to more closely resemble the various circulating strains of the virus. EG.5 is similar to XBB.1.5 reut.rs/3OY1WsM 4/4

EG.5 had been found in more than 50 countries as of August 8, according to the WHO. It is the most common and fastest growing COVID subvariant in the US, estimated to be responsible for around 17% of current COVID cases, according to the CDC 3/4

The WHO classified EG.5, which has been nicknamed by some as 'Eris,' as a 'variant of interest,' indicating that it should be more closely watched than others because of mutations that might make it more contagious or severe 2/4

COVID infections and hospitalizations are on the rise in the US, Europe and Asia. Health officials are pointing at the EG.5 'Eris' coronavirus, a subvariant of the Omicron lineage that originally emerged November of 2021 reut.rs/3OY1WsM 1/4

The death toll from the Maui wildfires reached 96 as relatives of the missing frantically searched for signs their loved ones may still be alive, while survivors grappled with the scale of the disaster and sought solace at church services reut.rs/3DT5OVh 1/6

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, 89; Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, 89; and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, 81, are older than McConnell reut.rs/3OySAmP 5/5

McConnell, 81, stopped talking mid-sentence at a news conference on Capitol Hill and stood mutely for 23 seconds until he was led away from reporters, only to return later to report: 'I'm fine.' The moment sparked worries about his mental fitness 4/5