America is not in an official recession — not yet, anyway — but the Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index declined for the 10th consecutive month, falling in December by 1% to 110.5, according to a report released Monday by the business think tank. Economists were expecting a decline of 0.7%, according to Refinitiv. 

In a new Siena Poll released Monday, 59 percent of registered voters said that the embattled Republican from New York’s 3rd Congressional District should resign. Only about 20 percent said he shouldn’t, and the rest didn’t have an opinion. Even a plurality of Republicans, 49 percent, said he should step down (another 26 percent he shouldn’t and 25 percent didn’t know).

It's no surprise that many voters are turned off by the political class these days. As repeated polls show, voters from both parties agree that the results of recent years from Washington have been less than stellar. And the voters feel Washington is divorced from their everyday concerns.

CBP tracks hundreds of thousands of migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico Border every month, but that stat does not include the number of known "gotaways," or migrants who were detected by authorities but not apprehended.

despite spending several million dollars, Lightfoot is at 4th place

CHICAGO - A new voter opinion survey finds Paul Vallas and Rep. Chuy Garcia leading the nine-candidate field for mayor of Chicago.  

The top two finishers in next month’s voting will compete in an April 4th runoff election.

Just 31% of Americans now approve of how Biden is handling immigration — a new low. As recently as October, his approval on the issue was 35%; in previous Yahoo News/YouGov polls, it never slipped below 33%. Meanwhile, the share of Americans who disapprove of the president’s approach to immigration (55%) is higher than ever before, putting him underwater by 24 percentage points.