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American Judge Reinstates Hamas/AMP Lawsuit
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A 2004 civil judgment held several American-Islamist groups and leaders liable for the Hamas terrorist killing of American student David Boim. Now a federal judge has revived a new suit aimed at collecting the damages

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Families are throwing away big bucks on unnecessary interest payments

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The Kosher Gourmet
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Tradition be damned. This quick Italian sauce suddenly goes with everything (RECIPES FOR 3 MAINS!)

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On this day in . . .

• 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously publishes "Common Sense"

• 1810, Napoleon divorces his first wife Josephine

• 1861, Florida seceded from the United States

• 1863, the London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station

• 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil

• 1878, a constitutional amendment that would give women the right to vote was introduced into the U.S. Senate. It wasn't until 42 years later that the amendment was signed into law

• 1901, the first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas

• 1916, Erzerum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire

• 1920, the Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I. The League of Nations was established

• 1923, four years after the end of World War I, President Warren G. Harding orders U.S. occupation troops stationed in Germany to return home

• 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduces the lend-lease program to Congress. The plan was intended to help Britain beat back Hitler's advance while keeping America only indirectly involved in World War II

• 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented. ALSO: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals

• 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his annual State of the Union message to Congress, asks for enactment of a 6 percent surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes to help support the Vietnam War for two years, or "for as long as the unusual expenditures associated with our efforts continue." Congress delayed for almost a year, but eventually passed the surcharge. The U.S. expenditure in Vietnam for fiscal year 1967 would be $21 billion

• 1982, San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Dwight Clark makes a leaping catch in the end zone on a pass from quarterback Joe Montana with 51 seconds left in the National Football Conference (NFC) championship game against the Dallas Cowboys. "The Catch" set up a successful extra point kick by Ray Wersching that lifted the 49ers to a 28-27 victory and a trip to Super Bowl XVI

• 1984, the United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years

• 2000, America Online announced it had agreed to buy Time Warner for $165 billion, in what would be the biggest merger in history

• 2002, Marines began flying hundreds of al-Qaida prisoners in Afghanistan to a U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

• 2003, North Korea announced it was withdrawing from the 1979 nuclear nonproliferation treaty

• 2006, Iran unsealed its nuclear facility at Natanz and resumed atomic research for what it claimed to be peaceful purposes but sparking international ire. ALSO: Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs unveiled an iMac computer based on Intel chips

• 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a $2.10-an-hour increase in the national minimum wage, raising the figure to $7.25

• 2008, at the New Delhi Auto Expo in India, Tata Motors debuts the Nano, billing it as the world's cheapest car: The anticipated price tag is around $2,500. Tata, India's largest automaker, called the four-door, bubble-shaped mini-vehicle (it was just 5 feet wide and 10 feet long) the "People's Car" and declared that it would be a vehicle for families who previously hadn't been able to afford a car. (At the time, it wasn't uncommon to see an entire family precariously packed onto a single motorbike.) Nano officially went on sale across the country in April 2009

• 2009, six Somali pirates drowned during a dispute in their overloaded boat as they tried to escape with an alleged $3 million ransom for the Saudi oil supertanker Sirius Star

• 2010, data showed China edging past Germany in 2009 to become the top exporting nation

• 2014, Target said personal information on 70 million to 110 million of its customers was stolen during a holiday-period security breach. The upper total was nearly triple the figure earlier reported by the company

• 2017, an unrepentant Dylann Roof was sentenced to death in Charleston, South Carolina, for fatally shooting nine black church members during a Bible study session, becoming the first person ordered executed for a federal hate crim

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