The Washington Post reports that as the Iran war approaches the six-month mark and inflation hits 3.8%, Americans are cutting corners on groceries, entertainment, and clothing — with Dollar General's CEO noting that core customers are cutting food purchases due to rising gas prices. Also: a new UNIGE study published in Social and Emotional Learning finds that improv theater outperforms mindfulness meditation and emotion-focused board games for improving cognitive empathy and willingness to collaborate in anxious teens specifically — and the mechanism explains why. And the USS Abraham Lincoln has now been at sea for 260 days, extended twice past its expected May return with no end date announced, with multiple sailors having attempted to go overboard, one wife describing her husband's 13-year career potentially ending \"just because he was burnt out,\" and 200 families confronting Navy leadership in San Diego. Plus the demon cavefish, the ancient wrestler's tomb, the Dobby grave pipeline diversion, and the Mini-Mozart heist.
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