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Weekend of May 5-7, 2017

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Why is the Amnerican president directly undermining the US's goal of defeating terrorism in two key ways?

Q: My daughter was caught in a huge lie (again). Apparently I can't trust what she tells me, and this has been a huge betrayal. We were always close, even buddies, and I don't understand how she is lying to my face now. Plus she lies about stupid things that it doesn't seem to me she should be lying about. Can you help me understand this and tell me how to get honesty from my teen?

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• 1215, rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England --- part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta

• 1809, Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread

• 1821, Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean

• 1862, Mexican forces loyal to Benito Juarez defeated French troops sent by Napoleon III in the Battle of Puebla

• 1865, in North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place

• 1891, the Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor

• 1893, Wall Street stock prices took a sudden drop, sparking the second worst economic crisis in U.S. history

• 1904, pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball

• 1942, during World War II, Japanese forces landed on the Philippine island of Corregidor

• 1945, Mrs. Elsie Mitchell and five neighborhood children were killed in Lakeview, Ore., when a Japanese balloon they had found in the woods exploded. They were listed as the only known World War II civilian fatalities in the continental United States

• 1961, the Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 --- Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes

• 1980, a siege at the Iranian embassy in London by armed practitioners of that "religion pf peace" demanding the release of political prisoners in Iran ended as British commandos and police stormed the building. Nineteen hostages were rescued; two others had already been killed by their captors; four of the five hostage-takers were also killed

• 1985, President Reagan kept a promise to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl by leading a wreath-laying ceremony at the military cemetery in Bitburg

• 1996, Israel and the "Palestinians" began the final stage of their peace talks in Taba, Egypt. ALSO: The FBI released preliminary figures showing that serious crimes reported to police fell for the fourth straight year in 1995

• 2000, the tightest alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the sun and the moon since 1962 took place

• 2003, India and Pakistan agreed to renew diplomatic ties but India turned down Pakistan's offer of bilateral nuclear disarmament

• 2004, Republican senators sought an investigation into charges that Iraq misused revenue from the U.N. oil-for-food program. A report estimated the Saddam Hussein regime collected $10.7 billion in illegal oil revenues

• 2005, Tony Blair won a historic third term as Britain's prime minister, but his Labour Party suffered a sharply reduced parliamentary majority

• 2009, America's first face transplant recipient appeared before reporters at the Cleveland Clinic. (Connie Culp underwent the procedure after being shot by her husband in a failed murder-suicide attempt.) ALSO: Texas health officials confirmed the first death of a U.S. resident with swine flu

• 2010, preliminary plans for a mosque and cultural center near ground zero in New York were unveiled, setting off a national debate over whether the project was disrespectful to 9/11 victims and whether opposition to it exposed anti-Muslim biases. ALSO: Three people, trapped in an Athens bank torched by rioters, died during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped Greek government's harsh austerity measures

• 2013, explosions shook buildings in Damascus and Syrian officials blamed Israel, one calling the attack "an act of war." No casualties were reported

• 2014, the World Health Organization declared the re-emergence of polio in several countries, including Pakistan, Syria, Cameroon and Nigeria, a worldwide health emergency, calling outbreaks of the disease "an extraordinary event."

• 2016, the last man standing in Donald Trump's path to the Republican nomination, Ohio Gov. John Kasich , ended his campaign, making Trump the party's presumptive nominee

Suzanne Fields: How Bill O'Reilly and Lena Dunham Rode a Cultural Wave to Different Places

James Bovard: Arresting someone for laughing may sound funny, but it's no joke

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