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Inspired Living
Count me in . . .
By Linda Shapiro
A latecomer to observant Judaism gets personal about rituals and beliefs she missed out on --- and is only now embracing
War on Jihad
IAP/AMS were propaganda arms of a now-defunct network called the "Palestine Committee." The committee was created by the Muslim Brotherhood to help Hamas politically and financially in the United States
Humanity
A warning to parents who give their youngins their cellphone as a "babysitter"
Must-Know Info
Amid rising gas prices and climate change, car giants are in a fierce contest to perfect the solid-state battery, long viewed as a "holy grail" for electric vehicle
Controversy!
Who says mega-corporations ignore the "little guy"?
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
REVEALED: Secrets for passing-off your lasagna as coming from an heirloom Italian recipe!
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
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[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]
On this day in . . . • 1787, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides
• 1810, Argentina began its revolt against Spanish rule
• 1895, playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London; he was sentenced to two years in prison
• 1935, Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career, for the Boston Braves, in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates
• 1946, Transjordan (now Jordan) became a kingdom as it proclaimed its new monarch, Abdullah the First
• 1961, President Kennedy, addressing Congress, called on the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade
• 1962, the Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business
• 1968, the Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, was dedicated
• 1977, the first installment of George Lucas' "Star Wars" film series was released
• 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz disappears from the street just two blocks away from his New York home, prompting an International search for the child, and causing President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25th as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983)
• 1986, an estimated 7 million Americans participated in "Hands Across America," forming a line across the country to raise money for the nation's hungry and homeless
• 1992, Jay Leno made his debut as permanent host of NBC's "Tonight Show," succeeding Johnny Carson
• 1994, after living 20 years in exile, mostly in the United States, Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to his homeland. He had been expelled after "The Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison camp system, was published in the West in 1974
• 1997, Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina became the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, marking 41 years and 10 months of service. ALSO: In the first round of parliamentary elections, French voters gave the leftist opposition the biggest share of votes in a surprising setback for President Jacques Chirac's conservatives
• 1999, the United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades
• 2001, a federal appeals court panel lifted an injunction against publication of "The Wind Done Gone," Alice Randall's satirical retelling of "Gone With The Wind" from a black viewpoint
• 2002, President Bush, during a visit to St. Petersburg, joined Russian President Vladimir Putin in pressuring Pakistan's president to curb cross-border violence in Kashmir and ease tensions with neighboring India
• 2006, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair held a White House news conference in which they acknowledged making costly mistakes in Iraq, but vowed to keep troops there until the fragile new government took hold. ALSO: Former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted in Houston of conspiracy and fraud for the company's downfall. (Lay died in July from heart disease and his convictions were vacated; Skilling was sentenced to 24 years in prison.)
• 2007, North Korea fired several missiles toward Japan in an apparent drill exercise, the Kyodo news agency reported. A government source said the missiles ''would not pose a threat to Japan-U.S. security.''
• 2008, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft made a smooth landing on Mars, completing a 9-month, 422 million-mile journey, setting down in the planet's frigid polar region where officials hoped to find water
• 2010, President Barack Obama ordered 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border
• 2011, a judge in Salt Lake City sentenced street preacher Brian David Mitchell to life in prison for kidnapping and raping Elizabeth Smart, who was 14 at the time of her abduction in 2002. ALSO: A judge in Tucson, Ariz., ruled that Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of wounding U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six in a shooting rampage, was mentally incompetent to stand trial
• 2012, private space company SpaceX's Dragon capsule became the first commercial cargo vessel to visit the International Space Station.
• 2013, amid tight security, about 3,000 people who had been in the Boston Marathon April 15 when bombs killed three people and injured scores of others returned to complete the final mile. One runner said the event, called OneRun, was "a great way to show the strength of Boston and the camaraderie in our city."
• 2017, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg received an honorary degree from Harvard, 12 years after dropping out of the ivy league school. Actors Judi Dench and James Earl Jones, and composer John Williams also were honored. ALSO: Surrounded by stone-faced allies, President Donald Trump rebuked fellow NATO members for failing to meet the military alliance’s financial benchmarks
• 2018, Harvey Weinstein was charged in New York with rape and another sex felony in the first prosecution to result from the wave of allegations against him. (Weinstein was convicted of rape and sexual assault; he is serving a 23-year prison sentence.)
• 2021, a white woman, Amy Cooper, called 911 to claim she was being threatened by "an African American man," Christian Cooper, who had confronted her for walking her dog without a leash in Manhattan's Central Park. (After a video of the confrontation was widely circulated, Amy Cooper lost her job with investment firm Franklin Templeton and was charged with filing a false police report; the charge was dismissed after she completed a counseling program.)
• 2021, the White House confirmed that President Joe Biden and Russia's Vladimir Putin would hold a summit in June in Geneva
[ I N S I G H T ]
(THOUGHT PROVOKING) Ben Shapiro: The Elitists Who Want to Rule the World
News of the Weird: Ahmed just doesn't quite 'get it'
Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report
Adrian Wooldridge: The 1970s had a big bright side, too
MediaWatch by Tim Graham: Biden's Gushy Lunch With Thomas Friedman
Garrison Keillor: Time to head for the graveyard and pay respects
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Blaming the Constitution
Michelle Malkin: Sabotaging America's Military From Within
Byron York: Did Putin wait until Biden became president to invade Ukraine?
Bobby Ghosh: 'Slow Joe' is missing an opportunity to put pressure on Iran
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