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Outlook
It's easy -- though painful -- to understand why Shavuos just does not exist for so many Jews
Reality Check
The failure of France's "peace" conference, on the one hand, and the success of Netanyahu's fourth visit to Moscow on the other hand, were poetic bookends of the week
Outrageous!
The administration claims, of course, it is inadvertent
Personal Growth
Sure, most of us have experienced the big fears, say, of public speaking or snakes. But what about the everyday fears, the ones that silently gnaw at us in our mind and heart? Consider these three ways to live more happily
Wealth Strategies
Higher risk usually means higher reward, but that hasn't been the case with international stocks
Life Hacks
You need this article!
Some simple, basic tips to help you deal with that overstuffed smartphone
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
Divine and dangerous, all at the same time: This torte combines smooth layers of creamy bittersweet, milk and white chocolate mousse on top of a rich chocolate cookie crust
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Chip Bok
Julia Gorin: 'Does Hillary Remind You of Anyone in that $12,000 Armani Jacket?
Mark Davis: Trump has valid point about judge with a possible agenda
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1190, the Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem
• 1692, Bridget Bishop was found guilty of the practice of witchcraft and hanged in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was the first colonist executed during the Salem witch trials
• 1793, the Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo
• 1854, the first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate
• 1898, during the Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba
• 1935, Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson
• 1940, during World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia
• 1943, Hungarian Laszlo Biro invented the ballpoint pen
• 1944, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game
• 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at eliminating wage disparities based on gender. The same day, Kennedy delivered a commencement address at American University in Washington, D.C., in which he declared, "If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity."
• 1967, the Middle East War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a U.N.-mediated cease-fire
• 1971, President Richard M. Nixon lifted a two-decades-old trade embargo on China
• 1977, James Earl Ray, convicted of the assassination of American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13
• 1985, socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I., at his retrial on charges he'd tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow
• 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard of South Lake Tahoe, Calif. was abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido; Jaycee was held by the couple for 18 years before she was found by authorities
• 1996, peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn Fein
• 2000, Syrian President Hafez Assad died from a heart attack at age 69. He had ruled the country since 1970
• 2002, the first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom
• 2003, the Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. ALSO: Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a car carrying Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a senior Hamas leader, wounding him and killing two others. (Israel succeeded in killing Rantisi in April 2004.) AND: ImClone chief Sam Waksal was sentenced to more than seven years in prison in connection with a stock-trading scandal. (He was released in 2009.)
• 2005, President George W. Bush and visiting South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun pressed North Korea to rejoin deadlocked talks on its nuclear weapons program while trying to minimize their own differences over how hard to push the reclusive communist regime
• 2006, three detainees at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, hanged themselves
• 2009, James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist, opened fire in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., killing security guard Stephen T. Johns. (Von Brunn died at a North Carolina hospital in Jan. 2010 while awaiting trial.)
• 2012, wildfires burned numerous structures and forced evacuations in Colorado and New Mexico but no serious injuries were reported
• 2014, Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., the U.S. House majority leader, was defeated by Tea Party challenger David Brat, a college economics professor, in one of the most stunning primary election upsets in congressional history. ALSO: In a stunning assault that exposed Iraq's eroding central authority, al-Qaida-inspired militants overran much of Mosul
• 2015, President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of up to 450 more American troops to Iraq in an effort to reverse major battlefield losses to the Islamic State
Wesley Pruden: And now the real fun begins
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Compelling Explanations --- NOT
Greg Crosby: June Gloom
Mona Charen: What the Stanford Violation Case Reveals
Jonah Goldberg: Going to extremes to start a conversation
Suzanne Fields: The Epic Rumble Toward November
Michael Reagan: Bernie's Army of Freeloaders
Leonid Bershidsky: Putin's European allies don't need his money
Karoun Demirjian: House's top military Republican would bring back threat of torture
Abby Phillip: Hillary is signaling to her party that she won't move to the center in the general election
Amber Phillips: History suggests Donald Trump's big, beautiful border wall may not be so outlandish
David Limbaugh: Hillary Born a Female, but What Difference, at This Point, Does It Make?
David Weigel & Ed O'Keefe: Latest 'Stop Trump' plans falter with GOP delegates
Charles Lane: In praise of superdelegates
Rich Lowry: The Agony of the Trump Endorsers
Newt Gingrich: Paul Ryan's Better Way to Fight Poverty
Charles Krauthammer: One can be appalled by Donald Trump but understand why the House speaker would support him
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