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HIStory
A Moroccan hero to Jews
By Richard Hurowitz

At the 75th anniversary of the release of "Casablanca," remembering an overlooked but remarkable example of enlightened leadership

Seriously!?
Russia: 'Our correspondents feel like Jews in 1933'
By Adam Taylor

Moscow takes aim at US media after criticism of state photographer in Oval Office

Passionate Parenting
How (and why) to stop divorce from ruining your kids' happy memories
By Gary and Joy Lundberg

Divorced parents can deprive their children of important childhood memories. These five suggestions can help your children through the devastating blow of divorce

Career Coach
Build your confidence by asking yourself these five questions
By Rachel Loock

Some think you either have confidence or you don't. That is false. It can be learned

Consumer Intelligence
Update your Windows systems now. Right now
By Hayley Tsukayama

Friday's massive international cyberattack may give you the best reason to hit 'update'

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

Delicious and gorgeous: A heavy hand with spices makes this salad perfect

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• Lisa Benson

• Jake Fuller

• Joe Heller

• Rick McKee

• Rick McKee BONUS!

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Gary Varvel BONUS!

• Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .

• 1618, Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made)

• 1756, the Seven Years' War begins when England declares war on France

• 1776, the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence

• 1817, opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. it is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture

• 1869, in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman's Suffrage Association

• 1911, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Co., ruling it was a monopoly in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act

• 1918, U.S. airmail began service between Washington, Philadelphia and New York

• 1928, Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy

• 1930, registered nurse Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard an Oakland-to-Chicago flight operated by Boeing Air Transport (a forerunner of United Airlines)

• 1940, nylon stockings went on sale in U.S. stores for the first time

• 1941, baseball player Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees starts his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak

• 1942, wartime gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 states, limiting sales to three gallons a week for non-essential vehicles

• 1948, hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon

• 1963, astronaut L. Gordon Cooper blasted off aboard Faith 7 on the final mission of the Project Mercury space program

• 1972, George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer and left paralyzed while campaigning in Laurel, Md., for the Democratic presidential nomination

• 1974, the Ma'alot massacre: A practitioner of that "religion of peace", after taking hostages at an Israeli school, praises Allah and then kills 31 civilians, including 22 children

• 1986, searchers on Oregon's Mount Hood found two teenage survivors of a hiking expedition that became trapped in a whiteout blizzard. Nine other climbers died

• 1988, the Soviet Union began the process of withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, more than eight years after Soviet forces had entered the country

• 1997, space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station. ALSO: Attorney General Janet Reno requested the death penalty for Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski. (However, under an arrangement in which he admitted his guilt, Kaczynski agreed to be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.)

• 2006, in an Oval Office address, President Bush said he would order as many as 6,000 National Guard troops to secure the U.S. border with Mexico, and he urged Congress to give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship. ALSO: A defiant Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea at his trial, insisting he was still Iraq's president as a judge formally charged him with crimes against humanity. And: The Pentagon disclosed the names of everyone detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison since it opened four years earlier. And: The U.S. removed Libya from its list of terrorist states and said it would restore normal diplomatic relations

• 2007, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern became the first Irish leader to address the joint houses of the British Parliament

• 2008, President George W. Bush, addressing the Israeli Knesset, gently urged Mideast leaders to "make the hard choices necessary for peace" and condemned what he called "the false comfort of appeasement."

• 2009, two of the "Big 3" U.S. automakers, bankrupt Chrysler and almost-bankrupt General Motors, sent notices terminating relationships with nearly 2,000 car dealers.

• 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave British oil giant BP the go-ahead to use chemicals in an effort to break up a massive offshore crude oil leak spewing an estimated 70,000 barrels a day into the Gulf of Mexico.

• 2013, Steven Miller resigned as acting commissioner of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service amid a controversy over its alleged targeting of the Tea Party and other conservative groups.

• 2014, President Barack Obama dedicated the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum deep beneath ground zero, calling it a symbol that says of America: "Nothing can ever break us."

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Mark Steyn: Posse Comey Tantrum

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Can't Possibly Be True! | 'Retiring' the Herd

(OUCH; SUPER-SIZED) Argus Hamilton's News in Zingers

Brian Fung: The future of Internet business might rest on this obscure court case

• Woman attempts to drive GOP congressman off road over health-care vote

Ed O'Keefe & Jenna Johnson: Republicans, Dems agree: If Trump has tapes, he'll need to turn them over to Congress

Jeff Jacoby:A health-care debate to die for

Alicia Colon: No, I Am Not a Moron but Half the Country is Deranged

David Limbaugh: Past Time to End This Dem Witch Hunt

Michael Reagan: Changing the Channel on Congress

Barton Swaim: Get over it, Dems. You aren't bringing Trump down anytime soon

Ed Rogers: Trump won't let the Russia story die

Callum Borchers: Want a special prosecutor to take over the FBI probe? History might change your mind

Bruce Bialosky: Proof That Libs Are Stupid

George Will: The left's misguided obsession with 'cultural appropriation'

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore