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4:50 PM ET, January 8, 2016

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Andrew Kramer / CBS Philly:
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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Man in Muslim Garb Tries to Execute Philadelphia Police Officer; Officials Not Sure if Religion …
Discussion: Philly.com, Hot Air and Billy Penn
Philly.com:
Officer ambushed, wounded in West Philly shooting
Discussion: Bearing Arms
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Suspect Who Ambushed Philly Cop Pledged Allegiance To Islamic State
Discussion: Associated Press and The Week
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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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 …
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Hillary ‘surprised’ by staffer using personal email  —  In the latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department on Friday, the former secretary expressed surprise that a department staffer was using a personal email address.  —  “Is he [Near Eastern Affairs] currently?
Streiff / RedState:
SMOKING GUN. Hillary Committed A Federal Crime Handling Classified Information
Discussion: The Hayride
Nick Gass / Politico:
The 8 must-read Hillary Clinton emails
Discussion: ABC News
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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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.
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP heads into 2016 fight with no clear ObamaCare plan  —  The GOP has failed to put forward a full ObamaCare replacement plan, a significant political liability in an election year that stands to permanently cement the law.  —  Republicans this week made good on a five-year-old promise …
Discussion: Politico and Daily Kos
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Veepstakes begin as Nikki Haley takes the GOP spotlight
Discussion: ABC News
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Gallup: Bush favorability in the red
Discussion: Joe.My.God., Politico and The Week
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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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.
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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Justin Wm / Washington Post:
Meet the pro-gun rape survivor who challenged Obama on CNN
Eliza Collins / Politico:
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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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
White House won't commit to supporting Sanders over guns  —  President Barack Obama will have to review Bernie Sanders' record on guns before committing to support the Vermont senator if he wins the Democratic nomination, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Friday.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Bloomberg Business:
Obama Creates Task Force to Counter Terror Via Facebook
Discussion: Politico
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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John Hall / Times of India:
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.
Discussion: TalkLeft, Mediaite and Pamela Geller
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Reuters:   Islamic State member executes his mother in Syria: monitor
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 …
Discussion: The Week and The Resurgent
Hillary Clinton / BostonGlobe.com:
A make-or-break moment for Supreme Court appointments  —  THERE'S A LOT at stake in this election.  Nowhere is this clearer than in the US Supreme Court.  —  The court's decisions have a profound impact on American families.  In the past two decades alone, it effectively declared George W. Bush president …
Discussion: Above the Law
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Mandatory Union Fees Getting Hard Look by Supreme Court
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.
Discussion: Metro.co.uk, Maxim and Mashable
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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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 …
Discussion: Politico, Speaker.gov, RT and The Week
Science:
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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