Sixteen of the top 20 U.S. newspapers lost overall audience — including online — in 2010.

Among possible candidates for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, four (Romney, Huckabee, Palin and Gingrich) are supported by more than 10% of Republican voters and none garners the support of more than one-in-five GOP voters.

Nearly seven-in-ten Americans have a favorable view of Michelle Obama.

Hispanics now account for 16.3% of the total U.S. population.

Nearly half (47%) of registered voters say they would like to see Barack Obama reelected in 2012, while 37% would prefer to see a Republican candidate take the White House.

Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 91.7% of the nation’s population growth over the past decade.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, 1911 is widely credited with boosting the then-nascent union movement. But 100 years later, unions command the support of fewer than half of the public.