Migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border hit a record high at the end of 2023
The U.S. Border Patrol had nearly 250,000 encounters with migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico in December 2023.
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The U.S. Border Patrol had nearly 250,000 encounters with migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico in December 2023.
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
A narrow majority of Americans continue to say labor unions have a positive effect on the way things are going in the United States.
Americans give their country comparatively low marks for its handling of the pandemic – and people in other nations tend to agree.
Most Republicans say the primary reason for the rise in confirmed coronavirus cases is that more people are being tested.
If one takeaway from the election is historic voter participation, another may be the political polarization that has come to define the U.S.
Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about the ease of voting and the broader integrity of the 2020 presidential election.
Donald Trump’s four-year tenure in the White House revealed extraordinary fissures in American society but left little doubt that he is a figure unlike any other in the nation’s history.
71% of U.S. adults say they are confident that medical centers in their area can handle the needs of seriously ill people during the pandemic.
For some governments, the debt incurred on COVID-19 relief will add to the considerable red ink already on their ledgers before the pandemic.
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