
The economy is finally booming, but millions of Americans can't feel it -- yet
CNN
The American economy is roaring back to life as the once-in-a-century pandemic winds down.
The US economy just notched its fastest first-quarter GDP growth in nearly four decades. Armed with stimulus checks and tax credits, Americans are spending aggressively. Hiring is surging as broad swaths of the economy -- including even New York City, the epicenter of the pandemic -- prepare to fully reopen for business.
Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani bitterly clashed over age and experience Thursday in the final debate before New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, as Cuomo warned that electing the progressive state assemblyman is unprepared for the job and Mamdani hammered the former governor over scandals during his time in Albany.

On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security posted a striking graphic on its official X account. Uncle Sam, a symbol of American patriotism, is depicted nailing a poster to a wall that reads, “Help your country… and yourself.” Written underneath the poster is the sentence, “REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS,” and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement hot line.