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Cops: Suspect Says He Shot Officer In Name Of Islam — By Justin Finch, Rahel Solomon, Walt Hunter — PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Authorities say a Philadelphia police officer is recovering after he was shot several times during an ambush late Thursday night in West Philadelphia.
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Suspect Who Ambushed Philly Cop Pledged Allegiance To Islamic State
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Dramatic Photos Capture Moment Gunman Allegedly Tried to ‘Execute’ Philadelphia Police Officer
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Bombshell: In Email, Hillary Ordered Aide to Strip Classified Marking and Send Sensitive Material — The State Department waited until the middle of the night to execute its belated, court-ordered release of the latest tranche of Hillary Clinton's emails — the ones she and her attorneys …
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Whoa: Hillary e-mail instructs aide to transmit classified data without markings — Has the State Department released a smoking gun in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal? In a thread from June 2011, Hillary exchanges e-mails with Jake Sullivan, then her deputy chief of staff …


Watchdog: Clinton email responses ‘inaccurate and incomplete’ — The State Department has been providing “inaccurate and incomplete” responses to requests for emails and other documents involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a watchdog says in a new report released Thursday.
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SMOKING GUN. Hillary Committed A Federal Crime Handling Classified Information — One of the ongoing skirmishes over Hillary Clinton's use of her personal email server to handle official correspondence was the issue of handling classified information. To date, Hillary's defense has been two-fold a) …
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The GOP Establishment's Civil War — A free-for-all between Christie, Rubio, Cruz and others, while Trump hovers above it all. — What everyone's waiting for is the winnowing. New Hampshire and Iowa will force some Republican candidates out. When we know who's still in we'll have a surer sense of the contours of the race.
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Jeb Bush's Image Among Republicans Deteriorates — Story Highlights — PRINCETON, N.J. — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's image among Republicans has steadily worsened over the past 5 ½ months. His current net favorable rating of -1 (44% favorable, 45% unfavorable) …
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Gallup: Bush favorability in the red
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‘American Sniper’ Widow Taya Kyle Takes on Obama at Town Hall on Guns: ‘We Cannot Outlaw Murder’ — The widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle confronted President Barack Obama Thursday night, challenging the president on the effectiveness of gun control legislation and asking …
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Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility
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Meet the pro-gun rape survivor who challenged Obama on CNN
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Trump likes to sleep in his own bed and it may cost him votes — U.S. presidential candidates are spending long days on the campaign trail and their nights in a succession of budget hotels, often in small towns. Not Donald Trump. — After nearly every rally, the billionaire real estate developer hops …
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Trump, Cruz on brink of epic clash
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Ben Carson: Ted Cruz's Canadian Birth “Not An Issue”
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Fiorina: It's ‘Odd’ Cruz Didn't Renounce Canadian Citizenship Until 2014
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Unprecedented sex harassment in Helsinki at New Year, Finnish police report — Finnish police ‘tipped off’ about plans by groups of asylum seekers to sexually harass women — Asylum seekers who gathered in central Helsinki on New Years's Eve “had similar plans” to commit sexual assault …
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New Year's Eve sex assaults also reported in Finland, Sweden and Austria — Network writer and AFPNews Corp Australia Network — WOMEN in other European cities were the targets of sex attacks on New Year's Eve, similar to a spate of apparently co-ordinated sexual assaults on women in Germany.
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Cologne sex attacks: City's police chief removed from post over violence
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THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — DECEMBER 2015 — Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 292,000 in December, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment gains occurred in several industries, led by professional and business services …
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Robust Hiring in December Caps Solid Year for U.S. Jobs
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At Bundy encampment, outsider says militants ‘attacked’ his group — BURNS — Violence broke out at the Bundy compound Wednesday night between its militant occupants and members of an outside group whose leader says he wants to get women and children out of the compound.
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Sheriff, Bundy meet on neutral ground to discuss ending refuge occupation
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Trump tells security to take protesters' coats: ‘Throw them out into the cold’ — Republican front-runner Donald Trump directed security to kick out Bernie Sanders supporters from his Vermont rally and to confiscate their coats. — “Throw them out into the cold,” Trump ordered security, as protesters shouted “Bernie!
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ISIS militant Ali Saqr al-Qasem publicly executes his own mother in Raqqa after accusing her of ‘apostasy’ — LONDON: In a shocking low even by the standards of the Islamic State, a militant has publicly executed his own mother after accusing her of apostasy.
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Charles Koch bemoans lack of influence over 2016 race — Charles Koch is “disappointed” with the line-up of Republican candidates in the 2016 cycle, and is surprised by the lack of influence he and his brother have wielded so far. — In an interview with the Financial Times …
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Lunch with the FT: Charles Koch
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Mandatory Union Fees Getting Hard Look by Supreme Court — FRESNO, Calif. — Harlan Elrich is a high school teacher in California, and that means he must pay about $970 a year to a labor union. He teaches math, and he said the system did not add up. — “I get to choose what movie I want to go see,” Mr. Elrich said.
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A make-or-break moment for Supreme Court appointments
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Melbourne man faces stiff opposition to penis signature — Jared Hyams' signature started as a joke. — Suspecting that no one at the Australian Electoral Commission would scrutinise the application to change his address, he scribbled a caricature of a penis in the box that asked for a signature.
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Feds arrest two Middle East refugees on terror-related charges — (CNN)U.S. federal authorities arrested two refugees on terror-related charges Thursday. — The arrests in Sacramento and Houston did not appear to be directly related, but the cases had several similarities.
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Obama vetoes health bill repeal — President Obama on Friday vetoed legislation that would repeal much of ObamaCare, the first such measure to reach his desk since it became law in 2010. — Obama used his veto pen without fanfare on a legislative package rolling back his signature healthcare law …


The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene — 1British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK. — 2Department of Geology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK. — 3Scott Polar Research Institute …
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