Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Will Support New Effort by Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project WASHINGTON, Oct.

A new poll released this week shows that Americans are becoming more skeptical about global warming.

By Mark Silva, Chicago Tribune Jun. 8--WASHINGTON -- In their age, experience, race, faith in the power of government and views of a complex world, Sens.

WASHINGTON _ As public confidence in the prospect of success for U.S. military forces in Iraq diminishes, President Bush is displaying increasing frustration with the gulf between Main Street America's perception of the conflict and his own unflinching optimism.

Momentum is growing across the United States to limit or ban same-sex adoptions, a report said Wednesday. However, the opposition -- while still divisive -- is not nearly as inflammatory as gay marriage, said Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center for the People and Press.