The number of federal prisoners sentenced to more than a year behind bars decreased by 5% between 2017 and the end of 2019.
Kamala Harris’ election represented an advance in the progress Black Americans have made in recent decades in political leadership.
Women make up just over a quarter of all members of the 117th Congress – the highest percentage in U.S. history.
63% of U.S. adults say the government has the responsibility to provide health care coverage for all, up slightly from 59% last year.
Response to the pandemic has pushed the federal budget higher than it's been in decades, but Americans are slightly less concerned about the deficit than in recent years.
Americans are much more likely than Germans to see U.S. bases in Germany as important for their country’s national security.
About six-in-ten Americans believe social distancing measures are helping a lot to slow the spread of coronavirus in the nation.
The last year the Postal Service recorded any profit was 2006, and its cumulative losses since then totaled $83.1 billion as of March 31.
Also, a declining share of Republicans say the coronavirus is a major threat to health in the United States.
World War II service members’ numbers have dwindled from around 939,000 veterans in 2015 to about 300,000 in 2020.
