AI is moving faster than regulation. The question is whether Washington sets guardrails now or waits.

Federal law requires checks from licensed dealers but not all private sales. Closing that gap is heavily debated.

Traffic fell and transit money is flowing, while outer-borough commuters say they carry the cost.

The classic approval question. Presidential job approval has not crossed 55 percent for any sustained period in two decades.

Growth and unemployment numbers look solid while grocery, housing, and insurance costs dominate how people say they actually feel.

Three years in, the coalition question is endurance: supporters call aid cheap deterrence, skeptics call it an open checkbook without a defined end.