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Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
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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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Bombshell: In Email, Hillary Ordered Aide to Strip Classified Marking and Send Sensitive Material
Bombshell: In Email, Hillary Ordered Aide to Strip Classified Marking and Send Sensitive Material
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Streiff / RedState:
SMOKING GUN. Hillary Committed A Federal Crime Handling Classified Information
SMOKING GUN. Hillary Committed A Federal Crime Handling Classified Information
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Fox News:
Latest batch of Clinton emails contains 66 more classified messages
Latest batch of Clinton emails contains 66 more classified messages
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Whoa: Hillary e-mail instructs aide to transmit classified data without markings
Whoa: Hillary e-mail instructs aide to transmit classified data without markings
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
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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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Gallup: Bush favorability in the red — For the first time since he launched his presidential bid, Jeb Bush's net favorability among Republicans is negative, according to a new Gallup survey released on Friday. — Once considered the GOP's front-runner, the former Florida governor's plus-27 …
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Andrew Kramer / CBS Philly:
Sources: Suspect Confesses To Shooting Officer, Says He Did It In Name Of Islam — 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. — Philadelphia police commissioner …
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Dramatic Photos Capture Moment Gunman Allegedly Tried to ‘Execute’ Philadelphia Police Officer
Dramatic Photos Capture Moment Gunman Allegedly Tried to ‘Execute’ Philadelphia Police Officer
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
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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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Priebus ‘100 percent’ confident he can rally GOP behind Cruz or Trump
Priebus ‘100 percent’ confident he can rally GOP behind Cruz or Trump
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Trump Tangles With Democrats On Sanders' Turf
The Note: Trump Tangles With Democrats On Sanders' Turf
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Bureau of Labor Statistics:
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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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Robust Hiring in December Caps Solid Year for U.S. Jobs
Robust Hiring in December Caps Solid Year for U.S. Jobs
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Chico Harlan / Washington Post:
U.S. added 292,000 jobs in December; unemployment rate steady at 5 percent
U.S. added 292,000 jobs in December; unemployment rate steady at 5 percent
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Catherine E. Shoichet / CNN:
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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NEWS.com.au:
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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Richard Orange / Telegraph:
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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Emily Flitter / Reuters:
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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Randy Billings / The Portland Press Herald:
LePage makes racially charged comment at Bridgton meeting — A Republican critic of the governor calls the remark during a town hall meeting with residents Wednesday ‘one of the most offensive statements yet from this Governor.’ — Gov. Paul LePage made a racially charged comment in Bridgton …
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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Governor Delivers Racist Rant At Public Meeting
Governor Delivers Racist Rant At Public Meeting
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
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 …
Jack Mirkinson / Salon:
Rahm Emanuel is a national disgrace: Why he represents every worst instinct of the Democratic Party — The Chicago mayor's ties to a shocking police cover-up get stronger by the day. This should come as no surprise — The scandal surrounding Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel's grossly corrupt …
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Barack Obama / New York Times:
Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility — THE epidemic of gun violence in our country is a crisis. Gun deaths and injuries constitute one of the greatest threats to public health and to the safety of the American people. Every year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns.
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Kelly House / Oregonian:
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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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Fiorina: It's ‘Odd’ Cruz Didn't Renounce Canadian Citizenship Until 2014 — Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina weighed in on what she called the “odd” circumstances of her Canadian-born rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)'s citizenship on Thursday. — In an interview on Fox News' …
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