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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 Richard Ross says the officer was sitting in his patrol car around 11:30 p.m. at 60th and Spruce Streets when a gunman fired 13 shots through the driver's side of the car. The officer - 33-year-old Jesse Hartnett - was struck three times in his arm, authorities say. "Shots fired! I'm shot! I'm bleeding heavily!" Hartnett can be heard yelling on police radio. Sources tell Eyewitness News the suspect has given a full confession,...

Jailed money manager Kenneth Starr's wife may be forced back to working the pole. An SEC lawyer said this morning that federal regulators will oppose any attempt to unfreeze Starr's crooked assets to cover living expenses for his ex-stripper wife, Diane Passage, and her 12-year-old son Jordan. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/kenneth_starr_wife_may_have_to_start_0f5WUSJxcSBW8IV0Ex3FIJ#ixzz0qTj3Jm3o

In response to the first attack on the Twin Towers in 1993, Kerry had the following suggestion for improving America's intelligence gathering. SEC. 301. RESCISSION OF FUNDS FOR INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENCE-RELATED ACTIVITIES. Of the funds made available in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1994 (Public Law 103-139), $1,000,000,000 is rescinded, to be derived from programs and activities of the National Foreign Intelligence Program and the Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities. Kerry's response to terrorist threats seems to be this. If the American people aren't aware of terrorism, maybe the issue will go away.... Oh, and to make sure it...