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59%
A new Pew Research survey finds 59% of Americans say the country’s best years are behind us, while 40% say its best years are ahead.
3.8%
Wall Street Journal: “Consumer prices rose 3.8% in April from a year earlier, a clear impact of higher gas prices since the start of the war with Iran. … The figures, reported Tuesday by the Labor Department, surpassed the previous month’s reported increase of 3.3%. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected inflation of 3.7%.”
56%
A survey of 1,000 Americans conducted by YouGov on behalf of NewsGuard found that 24 percent believe the foiled attack by a gunman on April 25 was not a real attempt to kill Trump, the Daily Beast Reports. When expanded to include those who believe the assassination attempt was staged or are “unsure,” the figure rises significantly to 56 percent. Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) also believe that at least one of the assassination attempts against the president—the WHCD dinner incident, the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024, or the foiled attack at one of Trump’s Florida golf courses in September 2024—was staged.
352,000
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“About 352,000 Russian soldiers had died in the war against Ukraine through the end of 2025, according to a new estimate, underscoring the high cost that President Vladimir V. Putin is willing to bear to pursue his battlefield aims,” the New York Times reports.
115,000
America’s employers delivered a surprising 115,000 new jobs last month despite an economic shock from the Iran war, reported the AP. Hiring beat the 65,000 jobs forecasters had expected, though it decelerated from the 185,000 jobs created in March. The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.3%, the Labor Department reported Friday.
228
Washington Post: “Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites across the Middle East since the war began, hitting hangars, barracks, fuel depots, aircraft and key radar, communications and air defense equipment. The amount of destruction is far larger than what has been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. government or previously reported.”
6,274
Physical assaults against Jewish people in the U.S. last year reached the highest levels since 1979, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced Wednesday, Axios reported. ADL counted 6,274 antisemitic incidents in 2025, down 33% from 2024, but still the third-highest year on record. Last year saw 203 anti-Jewish assaults, up from 196 in 2024; 32 of those assaults involved deadly weapons, up from 23 in 2024. Three people were killed in antisemitic attacks in 2025, the survey found. It was the first year since 2019 that Jewish people were murdered in the U.S. due to antisemitic violence.
$4.54
Bloomberg: “The nationwide average retail price for regular unleaded gasoline rose to $4.54 a gallon on Tuesday, according to the American Automobile Association, and is now around 50 cents off the record $5.01 set in June 2022. … On a seasonal basis, prices are already at an all-time high for this time of year.”
61%
President Trump’s war in Iran is as unpopular among Americans as the Iraq War during the year of peak violence in 2006 and the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. Sixty-one percent of Americans say that using military force against Iran was a mistake, with fewer than 2 in 10 Americans believing that the U.S. actions in Iran have been successful.
30%
A new AP-NORC poll finds President Trump’s approval rating on the economy dropped to 30% in April — down from 38% in March.
