Reality Check
Are Jews obligated to support reparations for blacks?
By Jonathan Tobin

Momentum for the idea is growing. But the Holocaust analogy undermines a proposal that could do much harm without fixing what's wrong with America

Wellness
Summer beckons: Do's and don'ts for a pandemic
By Christie Aschwanden

Guidance from health experts for dealing with common seasonal situations

Personal
Being alone can be sad and scary, but it can also be calm and wonderful
By J.E. McNeil

What I learned and others need to know

Must-Know Info
Pros and Cons of Getting a Tax Extension
By Rocky Mengle

Your federal income tax return is due today. However, if that deadline doesn't suit you for whatever reason, it's pretty easy to get the due date extended to October 15. But should you?

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

Peak summer corn doesn't need to be cooked. This bright, superb salad proves it

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• Lisa Benson

• Chip Bok

• Bill Bramhall

• Bill Bramhall BONUS!

• Tim Campbell

• John Cole

• Matt Davies

• Bob Englehart

• Ed Gamble

• Bob Gorrell

• Walt Handelsman

• Phil Hands

• Jimmy Margulies

• Kevin Siers

• Tom Stiglich

• Tom Stiglich BONUS!

• Dana Summers

• Dave Whamond

• Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .

• 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States

• 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba, surrendered to U.S. forces

• 1917, the British royal family adopted the name "Windsor"

• 1918, the RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the Unterseeboot 55 with 5 lives lost

• 1936, an Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish civil war

• 1938, Douglas Corrigan, the last of the early glory-seeking fliers, took off from Floyd Bennett field in Brooklyn, ostentatiously pointed west. However, a few minutes later, he made a 180-degree turn and vanished into a cloudbank to the puzzlement of a few onlookers Twenty-eight hours later, Corrigan landed his plane in Dublin, Ireland, stepped out of his plane, and exclaimed, "Just got in from New York. Where am I?" He claimed that he lost his direction in the clouds and that his compass had malfunctioned. The authorities didn't buy the story and suspended his license, but Corrigan stuck to it to the amusement of the public on both sides of the Atlantic. By the time "Wrong Way" Corrigan and his crated plane returned to New York by ship, his license suspension had been lifted, he was a national celebrity, and a mob of autograph seekers met him on the gangway.

• 1945, during World War II: Potsdam Conference. At Potsdam, New York, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the three main Allied leaders, begin their final summit of the war. The meeting will end on August 2.

• 1955, Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California. ALSO: Arco, Idaho, a town of 1,300 people, became the first community in the world to receive all its light and power from atomic energy

• 1968, revolution in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif was overthrown and the Ba'ath Party installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President

• 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind

• 1979, Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled into exile in Miami

• 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Paris-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people aboard

• 1997, the F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business

• 1998, a diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. ALSO: Nicholas II, last of the Romanov czars, was buried in Russia 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks. AND: A 23-foot-high tsunami hit the northern coast of Papua New Guinea, killing more than 2,000 people

• 2002, a double suicide bombing by practitioners of that "religion of peace" in Tel Aviv killed three. ALSO: In Britain, a one-day strike by 750,000 municipal employees closed schools, libraries and recreation centers in their first national walkout in more than two decades

• 2005, the Iraqi Special Tribunal filed its first criminal case against Saddam Hussein for a 1982 massacre of Shiite

• 2006, an earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami that struck the Indonesian island of Java, killing about 700 people. Around 200 were reported missing and thousands were rendered homeless

• 2007, the Dow Jones industrial average crossed 14,000 for the first time before ending the day at 13,918.22

• 2008, former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft told a congressional committee he doesn't believe waterboarding is torture. Ashcroft said he thinks a report on the simulated drowning procedure would be serious but not torture.

• 2012, Israel plunged toward a political crisis after the largest party in the government quit, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in charge of a hard-line coalition opposed to most Mideast peace moves

• 2014, Israel resumed heavy bombing of Gaza after the Hamas rejected an Egyptian truce plan and instead unleashed more rocket barrages at the Jewish state. ALSO: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 carrying 298 people was shot down over rebel-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border. All aboard the Boeing 777 were killed, including dozens of children

• 2018, President Donald Trump arrived in Finland for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Earlier, in an interview with CBS News, Trump named the European Union as a top adversary of the United States

• 2019, James Alex Fields Jr., an avowed white supremacist, was sentenced to life in prison + 419 years for killing one and injuring dozens of others when he deliberately drove his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters during a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia

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• Can you tell a real 'Karen' from a spoof?

• Tucker Carlson's biggest advertiser, the MyPillow guy, won't agitate for host to apologize for former writer's hate

Matt Viser & Dino Grandoni: Biden's lib energy: Presumptive Dem nominee reveals another way he'll 'transform' America

Paul Kane & Toluse Olorunnipa : Sessions loses runoff in Alabama as Trump helps end career of key supporter he came to despise

Byron York: Stone's 'unprecedented' commutation

Walter Williams: Despicable Behavior of My Fellow Academicians

Aaron Brown: Pattern of Smears: A letter accusing a prominent linguist of racism applies familiar tactics

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