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.

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …