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Weekend of April 7-9, 2017

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"We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place."

There are several aspects of the story of Obama's abuse of power, and the fact that Israel and its US allies were key targets of that abuse that are important beyond the domestic discourse in America

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (a.k.a. the DASH diet) is celebrating 20 years of helping people with hypertension and pre-hypertension lower blood pressure just as well as some medications. It has the potential to lower health-care costs and has been a component of the national dietary guidelines for over 10 years. So why are so few people using it?

Lightening Up On The Four Cups: Wines that won't fog the mind during the long holiday ceremony

Your relationship is veering off course and reaching that point of no return. You may attempt to come out of a bad situation unscathed, but these things will not be resolved just because you undid your "I do."

Department-store stocks have lost one-fifth of their value in the past five years, while the overall stock market has nearly doubled

• 1933, "Prohibition" is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.1788, American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country

• 1798, the Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812

• 1827, John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year

• 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee

• 1927, the first distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C. to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover)

• 1933, prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI Amendment

• 1939, Italy invaded Albania. (Less than a week later, Italy annexed Albania.)

• 1945, during World War II, American planes intercepted a Japanese fleet that was headed for Okinawa on a suicide mission

• 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference. It speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. The domino theory was used by successive United States administrations during the Cold War to clarify the need for American intervention around the world

• 1957, the last of New York's electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan

• 1966, the United States recovered a hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of Spain

• 1969, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material. ALSO: The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1

• 1971, President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam

• 1983, space shuttle astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson took the first U.S. space walk in almost a decade as they worked in the open cargo bay of Challenger for nearly four hours

• 1985, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe

• 1994, civil war erupted in Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane crash claimed the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. In the months that followed, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi and Hutu intellectuals were slaughtered

• 1995, President Clinton threatened to veto a lengthy list of bills passed by the Republican-controlled House if they were not modified in the Senate. ALSO: In a prime-time television address, House Speaker Newt Gingrich declared the GOP "Contract with America" was only a beginning

• 1999, NATO stepped up its airstrikes in Yugoslavia after rejecting President Slobodan Milosevic's cease-fire declaration. Yugoslav authorities, meanwhile, closed the main exit route where a quarter-million ethnic Albanians had fled Kosovo

• 2001, NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286 million-mile journey to the Red Planet

• 2003, U.S. troops in more than 100 U.S. armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad, seizing one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces and toppling a 40-foot statue of the Iraqi mad man

• 2004, Mounir el Motassadeq, the only Sept. 11 suspect ever convicted, was freed after a Hamburg, Germany, court ruled that the evidence was too weak to hold him pending a retrial

• 2006, the United States and the European Union suspended financial aid to the Palestinian Authority because its ruling Hamas party refuses to recognize Israel

• 2007, a Russian rocket carrying American billionaire Charles Simonyi roared into the night skies over Kazakhstan, sending its three occupants on a trip to the international space station

• 2008, anti-China protesters disrupted the Olympic torch relay in Paris, at times forcing Chinese organizers to put out the flame and take the torch onto a bus to secure it

• 2010, space shuttle Discovery docked at the International Space Station, its astronauts overcoming a rare antenna breakdown that had knocked out radar tracking

• 2013, in Cario, Christians fought back after four of their Copt co-religionists were murdered by practioners of that "religion of peace". AND: al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri used an Internet video to urge rebels in Syria to fight to establish an Islamic state governed by Sharia law

• 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin denied any links to offshore accounts and described the Panama Papers document leaks scandal as part of a U.S.-led plot to weaken Russia. LSO: In a brazen assault near the Syrian capital, Islamic State terrorists abducted 300 cement workers and contractors from their workplace northeast of Damascus.

David M. Shribman: With 'civilization itself seeming to be in the balance,' Woodrow Wilson took America into a world war

• Emily Rauhala: Syria strike adds awkward twist to high-stakes China-U.S. summit

• Josh Rogin: Trump administration on Syria strikes: 'Russia faces a choice'

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