San Bernardino shooter's dad: He was ‘obsessed’ with Israel  —  In interview with Italian paper, father Syed Farook says his son ‘supported the creation of the Islamic State’  —  Syed Farook, father of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook, has described his son as negatively “obsessed” with Israel.

Carter: Cancer is gone  —  Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday his cancer is gone.  —  Carter, 91, made the announcement near the beginning of the Sunday School class he was teaching at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, a close friend and fellow church member said.

Trump: Islamic terrorism will get solved when Obama ‘gets the hell out’  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says the country's “tremendous problem” with radical Islamic terrorism will get solved once President Barack Obama “gets the hell out” of office.

Hillary Clinton: I Don't Say ‘Radical Islam’ Because It 'Doesn't Do Justice' to Good Muslims  —  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton really doesn't like using the term “radical Islam.”  —  This Week host George Stephanopoulos called out the former U.S. Secretary of State …

Rubio: No-fly list full of ‘everyday Americans’  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says a majority of the people on the federal “no-fly list” do not belong there and therefore should not have their right to purchase firearms taken away.  —  “These are everyday Americans that have nothing to do with terrorism …

How Terror Hardens Us  —  WE Americans are living through a dread-inducing age — of school shootings and suicide bombers, of racist terror and mass murder, of enemies who broadcast terrifying pronouncements against us.  We are not used to living with such bewildering uncertainty.

Nevada lawmaker posts Christmas card showing family armed with guns  —  A Republican assemblywoman in Nevada this week shared her 2015 Christmas card on Facebook — which shows family members outfitted with a gun, including her young grandson.  —  “It's up to Americans to protect America …

Texas GOP Votes Down Secession Proposal … State GOP leaders, in a predictable but closely watched vote, have defeated a proposal to ask Texas voters whether they favor secession.  —  In a voice vote Saturday afternoon, the State Republican Executive Committee rejected a measure …

Hysteria About Refugees, but Blindness on Guns  —  LESBOS, Greece — For three weeks American politicians have been fulminating about the peril posed by Syrian refugees, even though in the last dozen years no refugee in America has killed a single person in a terror attack.

Stasi: San Bernardino killers were radical, ISIS-loving monsters — but one of their victims was just as bigoted  —  They were two hate-filled, bigoted municipal employees interacting in one department.  Now 13 innocent people are dead in unspeakable carnage.

3 stabbed at London tube station in terror attack, police say  —  (CNN)A man stabbed three people at an east London tube station Saturday before police subdued him with a stun gun and made an arrest, London's Metropolitan Police said.  —  Police said they were treating the stabbing at Leytonstone station as a terrorist incident.