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Outlook
Can we believe in science if we don't trust scientists?
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson

The religious case for being a skeptic

Reality Check
The agenda for the Trump-Abbas meeting
By Caroline B. Glick

The message the American president must send to the Arab leader and the rest of the world

Hate
An unambiguous pledge from Trump
By Philip Rucker & David Nakamura

The president confronts the scourge of anti-Semitism more directly than at any other time in his political life

Coupling
10 simple ways to be a better wife today
By Melinda Fox

It doesn't take much to improve your marriage

There's somebody you know who can gain from this

How Can You Say 'No'?
A culinary torch for 57 percent off
By JWR staff

A "Chopped" or "Iron Chef" fan who secretly aspires to play with a gourmet's toys? Or maybe you simply want to make the perfect creme brulee --- at home or a firend's party. Do we have a culinary torch you! Built with safety features that protect while you -- with the utmost precision -- sear, brown, boil, and melt in preparation of your foods.

Life Hacks
How to kid-proof any phone or tablet
By David Nield

Tips and apps for peace of mind

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Bonnie S. Benwick

Eats like a pizza but takes less time to make and bake

[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

• Nate Beeler

• Lisa Benson

• Daryl Cagle

• Rick McKee

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

[ T O D A Y  I N  H I S T O R Y ]

On this day in . . .

• 1607, English colonists went ashore at present-day Cape Henry, Va., on an expedition to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere

• 1655, Dutch West Indies Co. denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam, the Dutch colonial settlement that later became the city now known as New York City

• 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious emigres of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule

• 1865, Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia

• 1933, the Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established

• 1958, final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives

• 1968, students seize the administration building at Ohio State University

• 1980, following an unsuccessful attempt by the United States to rescue the U.S. Embassy hostages in Iran, the Tehran government announced the captives were being scattered to thwart any future rescue effort

• 1983, the Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1,200 for first time

• 1986, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster

• 1989, the deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless

• 1991, seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak)

• 1994, physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle. ALSO: South Africans began going to the polls in the country's first election that was open to all. Four days of voting would elect Nelson Mandela president

• 2005, under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country

• 2009, the United States declared a public health emergency as more possible cases of swine flu surfaced from Canada to New Zealand; officials in Mexico City closed everything from concerts to sports matches to churches in an effort to stem the spread of the virus

• 2011, the U.S. State Department urged American citizens in Syria to leave the violence-plagued country immediately and ordered eligible family members of federal employees and some non-emergency personnel to leave. ALSO: Mexican authorities announced the discovery of mass graves containing nearly 300 bodies. The dead were believed to be victims of drug wars that had claimed close to 35,000 lives since 2006.

• 2012, a U.N.-backed court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor of war crimes, including murder, acts of terrorism, sexual slavery and use of child soldiers, for aiding rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison

• 2016, Republican Donald Trump roared to victory in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island while Democrat Hillary Clinton prevailed in four of those states, ceding Rhode Island to Bernie Sanders

[ I N S I G H T ]

Andrew Malcolm: What's missing in Congress right now? Just leadership and courage (THOUGHT PROVOKING)

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: The Return of Anger Relief

Michelle Malkin: Muddy Maxine Waters: What a Riot

John Stossel: The Next President

Paul Greenberg: Mind of a killer

Jonah Goldberg: Immigration the common thread between French, American elections

Robert Costa & Paige Winfield Cunningham: Freedom Caucus leaders near deal on health-care plan

Karoun Demirjian: Key lawmakers deliver bipartisan rebuke of Flynn

Dick Morris: Donald Trump's Hundred Days: The Real Story

Byron York: Trump's first 100 days: An executive success

L. Brent Bozell III: Trump's 100 Days of Media Hostility

Salena Zito: The Real Lessons of Special Elections Results

Walter Williams: Environmentalists Are Dead Wrong

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore