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The share of men from ages 18 to 29 who said abortion would matter a great deal in shaping their vote increased by 12 points after they saw video testimony from people who were personally impacted by an abortion ban. For men ages 29 through 54 and those who were 55 and older, hearing directly from people affected by bans resulted in a 5 point increase in the same category.

By the numbers: 29% of Americans said they supported the military killings without the involvement of a judge or court. A majority (51%) said they were opposed. The rest were unsure. Approval was split among party lines: 58% of Republicans and 8% of Democrats said they supported the approach. The big picture: The Trump administration has killed at least 80 people in 20 drone strikes since early September. The president is reportedly considering expanding the strikes to land targets, the Washington Post reports.

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's affordability platform is broadly popular with Americans across the U.S., new polling finds, adding evidence to the notion that politicians looking for winning ideas should consider tacking to the left. Polling of 1,133 American adults conducted by YouGov in the days surrounding Mamdani's decisive win in New York City's mayoral election finds majority support for all of the major tenets of Mamdani's platform,

Under the headline How would the proscription of the organisation be viewed by British people, one section of the document warned a ban could be a divisive issue. It described Palestine Action as a small single issue group with lower mainstream media exposure than other direct action groups such as Just Stop Oil. But it noted that the organisation's direct actions, and arrests of its activists, won media attention.

The world of social media is flashy and fast-paced: those who stand out rise to the top with their ballrooms, space rockets, and chainsaws, dominating the headlines. The researchers for Germany's "Mitte Studie" ("Center Study"), however, turn their attention away from the dazzling personalities and the fringes, to examine those who form the backbone of a democratic and open society, looking at their attitudes toward right-wing extremism, xenophobia and antisemitism.

The vast majority of Americans still support same-sex marriage according to a recent study, which was shared as the Supreme Court decides whether to hear a case that threatens marriage equality. Research published earlier this week found that 65.8 per cent of Americans support same-sex couples' right to marry, with 36.2 per cent saying they 'strongly' support keeping protections in place.

In April 1975, the Labour chancellor Denis Healey sought to grip the UK's runaway inflation and rising unemployment rates an economic crisis triggered by the shock rise in global oil prices by raising the basic rate of income tax. Now Rachel Reeves, faced with her own set of difficult economic circumstances, including a multi-billion-pound budget shortfall, is contemplating the same remedy breaking a 50-year taboo by becoming the first chancellor since Healey to hike the basic rate of income tax.

More recently, Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?

Enten told viewers that among Americans, Canada has a net popularity rating of 49 percent, compared to Trump's net popularity rating of minus 10 percent. "When you pick on Canada as the United States president, you are picking on a country that the American people adore... When you're going after Canada, you are going against someone who is far more popular than... Donald Trump," he said.

Everyone's a critic, and that should be fine. Unless you happen to have said something about Taylor Swift. It might seem obvious, but it's OK not to like things. It's fine not to like a presidential candidate or the last Mission Impossible movie (bit slow to kick off, I felt). What is not OK is the way people nowadays reach for their digital pitchforks and torches if you don't like what they like.

S ince the Quiet Revolution, the question of whether one identifies first as Québécois or Canadian has remained a powerful marker of Quebec's political and cultural life. The ambivalence of Quebec identity is deeply rooted in a long historical evolution-from the "Canadians" of New France before the British conquest to the "French Canadians" after the Act of Union of 1840, and, finally, to the "Quebecers" of today.

The goal of the Chapman University Survey of American Fears is to collect data annually on the fears, worries and concerns of Americans and how those fears are associated with other attitudes and behaviors. This is the 11th year of the survey, conducted for Chapman by market and survey research firm SSRS using a probability-based method. In 2025, participants were asked about more than 65 fears spanning government, conspiracy theories, crime, the environment, the economy,

Every year is election year in the US, but the contests of 2025, which reach their climax on Tuesday, will be especially revealing. These off-year battles a smattering of governors' races, statewide referendums and the election of a new mayor in the country's biggest city will tell us much about the national mood 12 months after Americans returned Donald Trump to the White House and one year before midterm contests that could reshape the US political landscape.

The big picture: Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, fueled by dissatisfaction with Trump's impact on the economy and immigration, according to a survey by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Brookings Institution. By the numbers: Of all racial groups, Black Americans (84%) and Latinos (70%) are the most dissatisfied with the country's direction, according to the poll that surveyed Americans on religion, values and moods. In addition, 60% of Black Americans and 51% of Latinos say their economic situation has worsened this year. Over half of Black (53%) and Latino (56%) respondents say they feel like "strangers in their own country" - a record high in the poll's 16-year history. Only 16% of Black Americans and 30% of Latinos view Trump favorably.

AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin A whopping 85% of Americans said in a recent survey that political violence in the United States was growing, with Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly blaming the other side. According to a Pew Research poll, which surveyed nearly three-and-a-half thousand Americans following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month, 85% of those polled said that politically motivated violence in this country was on the increase.

Over four in five drivers (84%) say they wouldn't be willing to own a driverless car, according to Quotezone 's new survey, and only 12% of those surveyed have a positive opinion on the technology. One of the main reasons for the reluctance is concern around safety and accident risk, with nearly a quarter (24%) identifying safety as their biggest worry. Other concerns include the risk of technical failures or malfunctions (18%), lack of human control (17%), and cybersecurity threats such as hacking (12%).

"There are a variety of very significant concerns that Americans have with higher education that are not unrelated to the topics the Trump administration cites or references as justifications for their crackdown," said Matt Baum, the Marvin Kalb Chair of Global Communications at the Harvard Kennedy School, a public policy professor and one of the survey researchers. Still, "the fact that Americans have these concerns doesn't necessarily translate to agreeing with the corrective measures the Trump administration is advocating and implementing."

This week's episode of The Third Rail focuses on the R line, running from Forest Hills to Bay Ridge, and what commuters have to say about the 2025 NYC Mayor's Race and other big topics affecting the city.

April M. Perry, a federal judge, barred the Trump Administration from deploying the National Guard in Illinois, for at least the next fourteen days. "I have seen no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state," Perry noted from the bench. J. B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, who had been resisting the deployments to Chicago, celebrated the ruling on social media, writing, "Donald Trump is not a king-and his administration is not above the law."

A majority of voters, 58 percent, said presidents should only send military forces to cities that face external threats. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to U.S. President Donald Trump during a roundtable discussion in the State Dining Room of the White House on October 8, 2025.Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Two sets of recent polling data demonstrate that Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's actions in office so far - particularly his mobilization of the National Guard in U.S. cities.

More than 50 years ago, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall observed that the key issue in understanding public attitudes toward the death penalty is "not whether a substantial proportion of American citizens would today, if polled, opine that capital punishment is barbarously cruel, but whether they would find it to be so in the light of all information presently available." This information, Marshall predicted, "would surely convince average citizens that the death penalty was unwise."