In a striking rebuke to Wall Street pessimists and Washington career bureaucrats, President Donald J. Trump seized on new government data Wednesday showing far stronger-than-expected U.S. job growth, declaring the report proof that the American economic engine — fueled by patriotic policies, deregulation, and booming private sector dynamism — is roaring back to life. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in January, well above economic

For years, Americans watched as violent crime surged in the wake of the pandemic, civil unrest, and anti-police rhetoric. Now, new data reviewed by Axios shows a sharp and widespread decline in violent crime across many of the nation’s largest cities in 2025 — marking one of the most significant reversals in recent memory. According to the report, homicide rates dropped substantially in dozens of major cities. Orlando and Tampa saw some of the steepest declines. Denver, Seatt

New York City — In what critics are calling a jaw-dropping break with tradition, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is under fire this week after blowing off the installation of the new Archbishop of New York at St. Patrick’s Cathedral — a ceremony every sitting mayor has attended for nearly a century. Archbishop Ronald Hicks, who on Feb. 6 was officially installed as the 11th archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York — home to some 2½ million Catholics — did so in a histori