Happy Friday, reality-show survivors!

If trade wars are ruining your markets or teachers plotting hit jobs, the Boss, Bruce Springsteen, is opening the vault to redeem your Friday. Let's get wild (and wonderful).

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• National Security Agency director fired by the Trump administration.
• US Tourist arrested after trying to contact 'world's most isolated tribe.'
• Due to auto tariffs, Stellantis temporarily shut down two plants in Canada and Mexico.
• Senate confirms Dr. Oz will lead the Medicare and Medicaid agency.
• Devastating spring storms cause death toll to rise in the South and Midwest.

World Trade War: Explained

Even though it's heartbreaking and everyone misses the background, this is one of those times when I'm so proud of The Core and you, wonderful readers. Before the sun came up, we'd already spelled out the big shocker about Trump's tariff-for-all (aka the "World Trade War"). Now that everyone's awakened, we're focusing on the panic ripple hitting stocks, scaring investors, and threatening a little recession.

​Treasury yields are diving, autos are buckling under import levies, and consumer goods are being shocked. In the end, we're the only ones showing how these phony taxes are hurting Main Street, not just Wall Street. Welcome to the meltdown—told ya so.

In Context: Some critics think Trump's weird tariff math came from chatbots.

Class Dismissed

In a plot straight out of a true-crime special, a high school teacher hired her student to kill her estranged husband—for a measly $2,000. The suspect even paid the teen $250 and told him when the house would be empty.

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When the student's mom found incriminating texts, the staffer was arrested and bonded out for $150,000. She pleaded not guilty, but prosecutors aren't buying it—especially since she threatened to kill her ex. I guess "detention" just has a whole new meaning.

Dust Off the Turntable

Let's stop with the bad news! Fridays deserve better than doom and gloom, so Bruce Springsteen just made my—and everyone's—day: In "Tracks II: The Lost Albums," he'll release seven shelved LPs (83 songs!) on June 27.

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Think never-heard pre- "Born in the U.S.A." magic, a hip-hop-ish early-'90s experiment, and more border-bending tunes from 1983 to 2018—a trove "The Boss" once deemed too personal, too unfinished, or just too out-there. Now, it's all yours for the summer spin. Go ahead, let your heart race down Thunder Road again!

💬 Beyond the Core

Selfie-care: Can you name all these celebs in this A-list selfie?

Sip happens: When you drink, do you become meaner?

Dark Humor: Yes, it's real: Fans vow to make Luigi Mangione a martyr after the DOJ announcement.

Leak Out! Cybercrime forum claims 'largest social media breach ever', dropping 200 million X records as a tease.

📸 Lens to Life

Nature's picks for the best science images of 2024.

🧮 Core Count: 2,084

The number of species that domestic cats eat around the world.

🗓️ Flashback:

1581 - Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard his galleon, the "Golden Hind" at Deptford, England.

1655 - Battle of Porto Farina: English fleet defeats Barbary corsairs in Tunis.

1789 - First US Congress begins regular sessions during George Washington's presidency at Federal Hall, NYC (ends 1791)

1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance between Western nations.

1968 - James Earl Ray assassinated US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.

1973 - The World Trade Center opens in New York as the world's tallest building at 110 stories.

1975 - Microsoft was founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.

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