China’s population shrank for the first time in decades last year as its birthrate plunged, official figures showed Tuesday, adding to pressure on leaders to keep the economy growing despite an aging workforce and at a time of rising tension with the U.S.
According to a recent survey by Pew Research Center, Americans' views of the Supreme Court are historically low, marked by a dramatic decline in favorability among Democrats, an increase in favorability among Republicans and an unprecedented level of political polarization, with a 45 percentage point gap between parties in favorable views, the widest in 35 years of polling.
Big banks in the United States are getting ready to deal with shrinking profits due to factors like an overall difficult economic environment, despite the fact that interest incomes have risen over the past year.
Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, John Campbell, Ph.D., a retired nurse educator, has gained a following for his even-handed evaluations of COVID science and statistics.
Fewer than 10% of Americans rate the honesty and ethical standards of members of Congress as high or very high, making legislators fall behind car salespeople and only above telemarketers on a list of almost 20 professions.
