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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

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Outlook
Denzel, King Solomon --- and 'fake news'
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson

No, this article is not click-bait

Reality Check
The Left's never-ending war
By Caroline B. Glick

With their policies rejected by voters, the purpose of the Left isn’t to govern. It is to render their societies ungovernable

Most Pro-Israel Presidency Ever?
Trump poised to relocate embassy to Jerusalem 'fairly quickly'
By Carol Morello & Ruth Eglash

Many of his predecessors have made similar promises. However, Israelis and Middle East analysts are now increasingly convinced the president-elect won't be dissuaded by so-called "realists"

Wellness
Use nutrition to ward off winter blues
By Mitsunobu Sato

Physical disorders can negatively affect a person's mental condition, so experts recommend ingesting sufficient nutrients to stimulate the brain and other parts of the body to maintain mental health

Real Life
Months after our Tinder date, he threatened to commit suicide
By Ariel Henley

When casual suddenly becomes considerably more serious

Consumer Intelligence
Can you beat the credit-card rewards programs at their own game?
By Ben Steverman

With banks competing to offer customers the most irresistible credit card perks, consumers are left with an array of complicated, potentially expensive options

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Ellie Krieger

A holiday cookie with less sugar? Sweet

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• Nate Beeler

• Lisa Benson

• Bob Gorrell

• Jeff Koterba

• Rick McKee

• Dana Summers

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On this day in . . .

• 1799, George Washington, died at his Mount Vernon, Va., home at age 67

• 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole, beating out an expedition led by Robert F. Scott

• 1939, the Soviet Union was dropped from the League of Nations

• 1945, Josef Kramer, ym"sh, known as "the beast of Belsen," and 10 others were hanged in Hameln for crimes committed at the Belsen and Auschwitz Nazi concentration camps

• 1946, the United Nations General Assembly voted to establish U.N. headquarters in New York

• 1962, the U.S. space probe Mariner 2 approached Venus, transmitting information about the planet

• 1967, first time DNA created in a test tube

• 1975, six South Moluccan extremists surrendered after holding 23 hostages for 12 days on a train near the Dutch town of Beilen

• 1981, Israel annexed the Golan Heights, which it won in a defensive war against Syria in 1967

• 1986, the experimental aircraft Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California on the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world

• 1988, America agreed to talk to PLO (the first time in 13 years)

• 1990, Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed; she dies 12 days later

• 1995, Presidents Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia signed the Bosnian peace treaty in Paris. ALSO: AIDS patient Jeff Getty received the first-ever bone-marrow transplant from a baboon (however, the experimental procedure at a San Francisco hospital was criticized by animal rights activists. The transplant failed, but Getty survived)

• 2000, President-elect George W. Bush conferred by phone with congressional leaders of both parties and planned a goodwill tour of Washington, D.C.; he also received a flood of congratulatory calls from world leaders on his first full day as president-elect. ALSO: U.S. businessman Edward Pope was pardoned and released by Russia after being convicted of espionage. The Federal Trade Commission unanimously approved the $111 billion merger of America Online and Time Warner.

• 2006, a British police inquiry concluded that the deaths of Princess Diana and her boyfriend in a 1997 Paris car crash were a "tragic accident" and that allegations of murder were unfounded

• 2012, a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., then committed suicide. Police said the black-clad attacker, Adam Lanza, 20, killed his mother before going to the school.

• 2015, baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that Pete Rose, serving a lifetime ban for betting on baseball, would continue to be banned from working in the sport

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