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Most pet owners would leap into action for an injured pet, even if it meant risking dog breath by going mouth-to-snout.

As Democratic congressional leaders and White House officials work to shape health care bills that will go to the House and Senate floors, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that support for a government-run health plan to compete with private insurers has rebounded from its summertime lows and now wins clear majority support from the public.

What word or phrase do Americans find most annoying when used in conversations?

The people who most want the swine flu vaccine are older people, who will be last in line, says a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

The Secret Service has determined that a juvenile was behind the online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, an agency spokesman said Thursday.

A new international poll has revealed that money is the main source of stress in most countries --- but men and women often don't worry about the same things.

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated.

Chancellor Angela Merkel wins Germany's election, exit polls say, and may have enough votes to build a centre-right coalition.

Americans are overwhelmingly angry at the U.S. government and is nearly as let down by the lack of ideas from both political parties, a new poll by Rasmussen Reports revealed Tuesday.

The figure is a new low for the president in the Gallup Poll. He reached that point more quickly than most of his predecessors did. President Obama, who won the White House with an electoral college landslide and enjoyed soaring public approval for the job he was doing in the weeks following his inauguration, has fallen to a 50% job approval rating in the newest daily tracking of the Gallup Poll released just now.