#public-opinion-poll

#public-opinion-poll

On Wednesday of last week, Ross shot and killed Good in Minneapolis during a hotly disputed incident that was caught on camera. Trump Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem rushed to label the 37-year-old Good a domestic terrorist whose killing was justified, and Trump himself attacked the woman. But video and police statements contradicted their version of events, and protests have been widespread in the aftermath of the incident.

Americans from across the political spectrum say the U.S. should be the moral leader of the world, but far fewer believe that it actually is today, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll. In the nationwide survey, 61% of respondents said that the U.S. should be a moral leader, but only 39% say it actually is one. That latter figure is sharply down from 60% in 2017 in a similar survey of American attitudes. The latest survey also shows that nearly half the country prefers Washington to stay out of the affairs of other countries.

The intrigue: While Democrats' ratings of most agencies have weakened, Republicans' have mostly improved, echoing partisan shifts seen during President Trump's first term and early in former President Biden's presidency. Republicans and Republican-leaning voters now give the Department of Defense (74%) and Homeland Security (73%) strong approval ratings, likely reflecting the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration and crime. Yes, but: Homeland Security is the only department Republicans rated more positively compared to the Trump administration in 2019.

President Donald Trump and other Republicans lauded the suspension while Kimmel's supporters denounced it as censorship, since it came in the aftermath of vociferous criticism from the president and comments from his Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr that his agency can do this the easy way or the hard way if companies don't find ways to change conduct and take action.

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What are you going to do about it? What are you gonna do about if that's what you see for the country in light of the expertise that you heard on today's program and over the span of the 12 years I've been here. You know what the answer is? Go volunteer. Go mentor someone. Go to church. Go to a synagogue. Go t0 a mosque. Go where you are among people. Get offline and rub shoulders, especially with those who are dissimilar from you.