Southwest border apprehensions reached their highest level in 12 years in fiscal 2019
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November 02, 2019
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** Across the table: Would you share your views of Donald Trump over dinner? ([link removed])
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No recent U.S. president has evoked such strong feelings – both positive and negative – as Donald Trump. How would you feel discussing Trump over dinner with a group of people who have opposing views from your own? See how your answers compare with the opinions of Americans in our new interactive ([link removed]) .
* Report: Public highly critical of state of political discourse in the U.S. ([link removed])

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** Tech experts are optimistic about the next 50 years of digital life ([link removed])
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Fifty years after the first computer network was connected, most technology experts say digital life will mostly improve human existence over the next five decades. But they warn this will happen only if people embrace reforms ([link removed]) that lead to better cooperation, security, basic rights and economic fairness.
* Predictions from experts about the next 50 years of digital life ([link removed])

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** Democrats far more likely than Republicans to see discrimination against blacks, not whites ([link removed])
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Americans see widespread discrimination against groups in the U.S., including Muslims, gays and lesbians, Hispanics, women, Jews, and blacks. But wide partisan gaps exist ([link removed]) in the perceptions of discrimination against these groups. For example, Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to say there is a lot or some discrimination against blacks and little or no discrimination against whites.
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** Share of young adults not working or in school is at a 30-year low in U.S. ([link removed])
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The share of young adults who are not working or in school has gradually declined ([link removed]) in recent decades. This downward trend partly reflects tight labor markets and falling unemployment, but also more engagement among young women.
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** Brexit divides the UK, but partisanship and ideology are still key factors ([link removed])
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Those in the UK who oppose Brexit and those who support itare at odds ([link removed]) in their views of the EU, immigration policy and the future of their country’s culture. On other topics, traditional cleavages along party lines and the left-right ideological spectrum remain.
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** In U.S., familiarity with religious groups is associated with warmer feelings toward them ([link removed])
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Americans who personally know someone in a religious group different from their own – or who have at least some knowledge about that group – are more likely to feel positively ([link removed]) about members of that group. Overall, U.S. adults felt most warmly toward Jews, Catholics and mainline Protestants, and the coolest toward Mormons, atheists and Muslims.
* In Western Europe, familiarity with Muslims is linked to positive views of Muslims and Islam ([link removed])

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** What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 5 charts ([link removed])
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Migrant apprehensions at the southwest border reached their highest level in 12 years ([link removed]) in fiscal 2019, according to new federal data. And for the first time on record, Mexico was not the single largest country of origin.
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** Where Europe stands on gay marriage and civil unions ([link removed])
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More than 18 years after the Netherlands became the world’s first country to legalize same-sex marriage, Northern Ireland has become the latest jurisdiction ([link removed]) to allow gays and lesbians to marry. Same-sex marriage is now legal across the vast majority of Western Europe, with Italy a prominent exception.
* A global snapshot of same-sex marriage ([link removed])
* Fact sheet: Same-sex marriage around the world ([link removed])

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