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Troubling
Facing criticism, Trump administration has no regrets about leaving out Jews in Holocaust statement
By Abby Phillip

What might have been seen as an oversight was confirmed by White House spokeswoman to have been an intentional decision

Controversy!
Israel's Netanyahu applauds Trump's plan for wall; Mexico not pleased
By William Booth

The Israeli premier wades into U.S.-Mexico relations and gives a thumbs up to Trump's wall

Blasphemy
'You distorted the word of God': Judge rebukes men who used Bible as defense in rape trial
By Kristine Guerra

Just when you thought it was impossible for this horror tale to get any worse ...

Personal Growth
How to be more psychologically mature
By Kim Giles

One of life's most important skills isn't taught at school

Consumer Intelligence
Are you paying too much for your tax prep?
By Suzanne Woolley

Loyalty should only go so far

Wellness
Don't let detox diets deceive you
By Ellie Krieger

The concept gets a lot of buzz, especially around the new year, but you don't need a juice cleanse to start 2017 with a clean slate

Ess. Ess/Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Joe Yonan

For almost any time of day, a versatile, colorful super-simple saute

[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

• Lisa Benson

• Chip Bok

• Daryl Cagle

• Walt Handelsman

• Steve Kelley

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

Neil Steinberg: Something big behind iPhone, and it wasn't just Apple

Peter Brookes: Trump's troubled world

[ T O D A Y  I N  H I S T O R Y ]

On this day in . . .

• 1790, the first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne

• 1798, a brawl broke out in the U.S. House of Representatives in Philadelphia, as Matthew Lyon of Vermont spat in the face of Roger Griswold of Connecticut

• 1820, Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica

• 1826, the Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened

• 1835, in the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen

• 1847, Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco

• 1862, the first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched

• 1911, the destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba

• 1933, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. ALSO: The first episode of the "Lone Ranger" radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit

• 1943, during World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes. ALSO: The British air force bombed Berlin in a daylight raid timed to coincide with a speech by Joseph Goebbels in honor of Hitler's 10th year in power

• 1945, during World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,400 people

• 1959, MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard

• 1962, two members of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance at the State Fair Coliseum in Detroit

• 1968, after calling for a cease-fire during the Tet holiday celebrations, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong attacked the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, temporarily occupying the U.S. Embassy

• 1971, Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide

• 1981, an estimated two million New Yorkers turned out for a ticker-tape parade honoring the freed American hostages from Iran

• 1982, Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner"

• 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the United States would watch closely to see what Iraq, Iran and North Korea did next, a day after President George W. Bush singled them out as part of a dangerous "axis of evil."

• 2003, a U.S. judge sentenced Richard Reid to life in prison for trying to set off plastic explosives in his shoes on a trans-Atlantic flight in 2003

• 2005, despite widespread violence, about 60 percent of Iraqi voters cast ballots in the country's first free election in half a century. At least 22 people died in Election Day violence

• 2009, U.S. stock exchanges reported their weakest January in more than a century with the Dow Jones industrial average showing a one-month decline of 8.8 percent, closing at 8,000.86. The January unemployment rate jumped to 7.6 percent

• 2011, Egypt's most prominent democracy advocate, Mohamed ElBaradei, called for President Hosni Mubarak to resign during an address to thousands of protesters in Cairo who were defying a curfew for a third night. ALSO: Rachid Ghanouchi, leader of the long-outlawed Tunisian Islamist party, returned home after two decades in exile

• 2012, the U.S. Defense Department said it couldn't account for about $2 billion, or two-thirds of what Iraq gave it to pay bills, a U.S. government audit reported

• 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama's favorability rating was 60 percent in a Washington Post-ABC News poll as he began his second term.

• 2014, an appeals court in Florence, Italy, reinstated the guilty verdict against U.S. student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend for the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. (Knox was sentenced to 28 1/2 years in prison, raising the specter of a long legal battle over her extradition from the U.S. should the conviction be upheld.) ALSO":Federal prosecutors announced they would seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing

• 2016, two biker clubs clashed during a weekend motorcycle show in Denver, resulting in a brawl that left one person dead and seven others shot, stabbed or beaten. ALSO: A boat carrying Syrians attempting the short sea journey from Turkey to Greece capsized, causing at least 37 people to drown, among them several babies and young children



[ I N S I G H T ]

Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Elections matter too much

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Not, again!

Argus Hamilton's The News in Zingers

Ed Rogers: Politically illiterate Democratic celebs continue to embarrass themselves

Bernard Goldberg: He's Not Your Father's Republican

Chris Cillizza: Trump - unlike most pols - is doing exactly what he said he would

Jeff Jacoby: Make SCOTUS nominees answer the tough questions

Megan McArdle: Both parties can agree on infrastructure, sort of

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin has a constitution to sell Syria

Declassified by Eli Lake: Trump avoids making a trade promise he can't keep

Albert R. Hunt: Trump pledge on drug pricing tests both parties

Debra J. Saunders: What Is Trump Doing and What Does He Think He's Doing?

Dana Priest: Media attempting to scare America and the world? CIA would face hurdles to reopen 'black site' prisons, regardless of president's orders

Avi Selk: Mikhail Gorbachev is worried about a world war; he hopes Trump and Putin can stop it

Newt Gingrich: Thatcher, not Reagan, is the right model for Trump

Anne Applebaum: May's 'global Britain' is doomed

Bruce Bialosky : Tell Me What All Those Cabinet Departments Do

Dave Weinbaum: Donald trumped Dems race card

George Will: Trump and academia actually have a lot in common

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore