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The 23% of Americans naming immigration as the most important problem is the highest Gallup has recorded, though slightly more still say the government is the top U.S. problem.

Contrary to the sharp decline in the United States' violent crime rate since the mid-1990s, the majority of Americans (68% this year) believe crime is up, as they have for most of the past decade. More than half also say the U.S. crime problem ...

Gallup's latest report on charitable giving worldwide shows people don't need to be rich to be generous.

More Americans say the Democratic Party (47%) than the Republican Party (39%) is better able to handle the "the most important problem" facing the U.S. They most often name the government and the coronavirus as the top problem.

Sixty-seven percent of U.S. adults say the laws covering firearm sales should be stricter, up from 60% last fall and the highest since 1993.

Americans are more positive now than in 2007 about the effects that immigration has on several aspects of life in the U.S.

Americans' worries about being a victim of most crimes that Gallup asks about are the same as last year. Their concern is up about being a victim of terrorism, being attacked while driving and getting mugged.

As a grand jury decision on whether to indict a white officer for shooting a black teen looms in Ferguson, Missouri, U.S. whites (60%) continue to place more trust in the police to protect them from crime than nonwhites do (49%).

Majorities of Americans disapprove of President Joe Biden's handling of his job as president and five other key issues.

Thirty years ago, Gallup found fewer than one in two Americans (38%) favored the death penalty for persons convicted of dealing drugs but not of murder.