Pew Research Center Staff

More than half of foreign-born Hispanics (52%) report that they speak only Spanish at home.

Kenya is the sole country, among the 47 covered by the latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey, in which a majority (55%) says that U.S. policies lessen the gap between rich and poor countries. The perception that American policies increase the gap between rich and poor countries prevails in most of the countries covered by the survey.

Large majorities in many of Venzuela's Latin American neighbors say they have little or no confidence in Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who suffered a substantial setback in last Sunday's elections in his own country.

While a majority (59%) of parents with online teens still believe the internet is a beneficial factor in their children's lives, the number of parents who see the internet as a good thing for their children has declined since 2004.

About a third of teenagers who access the internet say they have been contacted by someone unknown to them or to their friends; but few (7%) view the contact as threatening.

That's the percentage of American pentecostals who say they have witnessed or experienced a divine healing of an illness or injury.

Six-in-ten Americans expect that Oprah Winfrey's endorsement of Barack Obama will help him in his presidential campaign, although only 15% say that Oprah's endorsement of a generic presidential candidate would influence their own vote.

Only four-in-ten Venezuelans, who will go to the polls in a key election this Sunday, told the most recent Global Attitudes Survey that they "like American ideas about democracy," a sharp decline from the 67% who said so in 2002.

That's the large portion of the Russian public that says it has confidence in President Vladimir Putin to do the right thing in world affairs, compared with only 45% of Americans who say the same thing about President Bush.

That's the small fraction of Pakistanis who say they have a favorable view of America in the latest Pew Global Attitudes poll.