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Science Confirming Scripture?
In ancient mass graves, archaeologists find child slaves of biblical Egypt
By Amanda Borschel-Dan

New findings at Amarna, the capital of an eccentric 'monotheistic' king, indicate a disposable juvenile labor force. Could there be a connection to the ancient Hebrews?

Reality Check
Why Israel will dictate any terms of a 'peace deal'. And why the 'Palestinians' will have no choice but to accept them
By Zev Chafets

One of the smartest pieces on the issue you'll read. The author is a former senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin

Inspired Living
My mother forgot who I was, and it made me a better child
By Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Watching her erasure has been vicious. But I have also come to realize that despite all I've lost, I've gained something, too

It Could Happen To You
For half her life, doctors told her to lose weight, but something horribly wrong was going on
By Sandra G. Boodman

Condition affects up to FIVE MILLION American women, but it often goes undiagnosed.

One woman's chilling -- if instructive -- story

Wealth Strategies
4 Types of Investments to Avoid
By James K. Glassman

Most financial advice-givers will tell you what to buy, but they rarely tell you what not to

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Sara Moulton

These delectable dumplings deserve star billing, not 'side' status. And unlike gnocchi, they are a cynch to make

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• Chip Bok

• Joe Heller

• David Hitch

• Jerry Holbert

• Jeff Koterba

• Rick McKee

• Steve Sack

• Dana Summers

• Dana Summers BONUS!

• Michael Ramirez

• Michael Ramirez BONUS!

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On this day in . . .

• 1665, England installed a municipal government in New York, formerly the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam

• 1776, Virginia's colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights

• 1898, Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain

• 1939, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y.

• 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Miss.; he was 37. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.)

• 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states couldn't outlaw interracial marriages

• 1971, Tricia Nixon, daughter of U.S. President Richard Nixon, married Edward Finch Cox in the first wedding in the Rose Garden of the White House

• 1978, David Berkowitz was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six "Son of Sam" .44-caliber killings that had terrified New Yorkers

• 1979, Bryan Allen, 26, pedaled the 70-pound Gossamer Albatross 22 miles across the English Channel for the first human-powered flight across that body of water

• 1981, major league baseball players began a 49-day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation. (The season did not resume until Aug. 10.)

• 1982, an estimated 700,000 people gathered in New York's Central Park to call for world nuclear disarmament

• 1987, President Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."

• 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that white workers who believe they were treated unfairly because of affirmative action programs can sue for remedies under civil rights legislation

• 1990, the Russian republic's legislature, under Boris Yeltsin, passed a radical declaration of sovereignty, proclaiming Russia's laws take precedence over those of the central Soviet government in the republic's territory

• 1991, Boris Yeltsin became the first freely elected Russian president. (Yeltsin, a key figure in the demise of the Soviet Union, was president until his resignation in 1999.)

• 1997, the Treasury Department unveiled a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant. ALSO: Baseball began interleague play, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series

• 1998, Space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth, bringing home the last American to live aboard Mir and closing out three years of U.S.-Russian cooperation aboard the aging space station

• 1999, thousands of NATO peacekeeping troops poured into Kosovo by air and by land; but in a surprising move, a Russian armored column entered Pristina before dawn to a heroes' welcome from Serb residents

• 2004, former President Ronald Reagan's body was sealed inside a tomb at his presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif., following a week of mourning and remembrance by world leaders and regular Americans

• 2006, Al-Qaida in Iraq named a successor to slain leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, identified by the nom de guerre Abu Hamza al-Muhajer

• 2007, President Bush went to Capitol Hill, where he prodded Senate Republicans to help resurrect legislation that could provide eventual citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants

• 2008, three heavily armed robbers stole two Pablo Picasso prints, "The Painter and the Model" and "Minotaur, Drinker and Women," from a museum in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (The prints were later recovered.) Taiwan and China agreed to set up permanent offices in each other's territory for the first time in nearly six decades

• 2010, Abby Sunderland, a 16-year-old California girl trying to sail solo around the world, was rescued by a French fishing ship after her boat lost its mast in rough weather in the Indian Ocean some 2,000 nautical miles off western Australia

• 2012, Ron Barber, former aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who was seriously wounded in a shooting rampage, won a special election to replace her. Six people were killed and a dozen others, including Barber, were wounded in the Jan. 8, 2011, attack by Jared Lee Loughner

• 2013, the National Security Agency director, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, told Congress "dozens" of terrorism threats had been thwarted by the agency's surveillance methods, including collection of millions of domestic telephone records

• 2016, a practitioner of that "religion of peace" killed 50 people in a mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando

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Mark Steyn: Comeytose State

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Recent Alarming Headlines | Least Competent Criminals

• Argus Hamilton's News in Zingers

• IT'S OFFICIAL! Chimpanzees are not 'persons,' appeals court rules

• Obama granted her clemency. Less than a year later, she's going back to prison

• Trump-like 'Julius Caesar' assassinated in tax-payer funded play

• When a liberal power lawyer represents the Trump family, things can get ugly

Jeff Jacoby: Sorry, class warriors, unions aren't coming back

Noah Feldman: Comey opens door to investigate Trump dossier

Ramesh Ponnuru: What we learned, and didn't, from Comey

Declassified by Eli Lake: Comey promised 'honest loyalty' but didn't deliver

Andrew C. McCarthy: What Comey described wasn't obstruction of justice. Here's why

Cheryl K. Chumley: James Comey outs New York Times -- intentionally? -- for fake news

Debra J. Saunders: James Comey Has His High Noon Moment Before Senate

Bernard Goldberg: Hey Jim, Why No Memo and Orchestrated Leak about ... That?

Jack Kingston: Comey is a disgruntled ex-employee, and that's how the Senate should view his testimony

John P. Carlin: Sitting presidents can't be prosecuted. Probably

Ben Terris: For Trump and evangelicals, unlikely bond is undiminished

David Limbaugh: Trump Won, Comey Minus One

Bruce Bialosky: Trump Should Never Release His Tax Returns

George Will: Infrastructure hyperventilaters must really enjoy the slurp of money down the toilet

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore