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Andrew Kramer / CBS Philly:
Police: Suspect Confesses To Shooting Officer, Says He Did It 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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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Suspect Who Ambushed Philly Cop Pledged Allegiance To Islamic State
Suspect Who Ambushed Philly Cop Pledged Allegiance To Islamic State
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: Philly Officer Ambushed By Terrorist Who Says He Did it For Islam, Pledged to ISIS
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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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
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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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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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
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 …
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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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Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
‘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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Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
Rape Survivor & Mom of Two Confronts Obama on Guns: Why Can't You See You're Making Me ‘Less Safe’? — A rape survivor and mother of two confronted President Barack Obama during a Thursday town hall, asking the president why his administration favors measures that “make it harder for me to own a gun” and in turn “less safe.”
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Barack Obama / New York Times:
Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility
Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility
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Guns in America town hall with Obama transcript (full text)
Guns in America town hall with Obama transcript (full text)
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Justin Wm / Washington Post:
Meet the pro-gun rape survivor who challenged Obama on CNN
Meet the pro-gun rape survivor who challenged Obama on CNN
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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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Frank Newport / Gallup:
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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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Gallup: Bush favorability in the red
Gallup: Bush favorability in the red
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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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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Trump, Cruz on brink of epic clash
Trump, Cruz on brink of epic clash
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Trump tells security to take protesters' coats: ‘Throw them out into the cold’
Trump tells security to take protesters' coats: ‘Throw them out into the cold’
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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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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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Justin Huggler / Telegraph:
Cologne sex attacks: City's police chief removed from post over violence
Cologne sex attacks: City's police chief removed from post over violence
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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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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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Les Zaitz / Oregonian:
Sheriff, Bundy meet on neutral ground to discuss ending refuge occupation
Sheriff, Bundy meet on neutral ground to discuss ending refuge occupation
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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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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 …
Beau Donelly / Sydney Morning Herald:
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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