Rick Perry endorses Ted Cruz  —  Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is endorsing Ted Cruz in the Republican presidential primary, Perry told POLITICO in an interview Sunday night.  —  Perry, who also sought the GOP nomination before dropping out in September, said he now sees the race as one that is between Cruz …

Father and son die in shootout at Pearl River County gun shop  —  wmuller@sunherald.com Twitter: WesleySMuller  —  PICAYUNE — A father and son were killed in a shootout with another man and his son at a gun store Saturday in Pearl River County's Henleyfield community.

Hillary Clinton deserves Democratic nomination  —  America looks different in 2016 than it did the last time Hillary Clinton ran for president: The economy has come out of free fall, the military has left the quagmire of the Iraq war, barriers to equality have toppled, and universal access to health care has become a reality.

VIDEO: Muslim Migrant Who BEAT, SPAT ON Mother with Children in Sweden is Being Deported to ...... Denmark  —  A couple of days ago, I ran video of a Muslim migrant in Sweden who beat and spit on a mother with her children.  The video caused such an uproar, the now “Most Hated Man in Sweden” is being deported — to Denmark.

Hillary's team copied intel off top-secret server to email  —  The FBI is investigating whether members of Hillary Clinton's inner circle “cut and pasted” material from the government's classified network so that it could be sent to her private e-mail address, former State Department security officials say.

The Obama Theory of Trump  —  It was so obvious, I'm embarrassed I missed it.  —  Like most of the other talking heads on TV, I was haughtily dismissive of Donald Trump's candidacy.  “It's apparently open mike day in the Republican campaign for president,” I tweeted last June …

Fox News Poll: Trump gains in Iowa, still dominates in New Hampshire  —  With just over a week until the first 2016 election contest, Donald Trump takes the lead in Iowa — and maintains his big advantage in New Hampshire.  —  That's according to the latest round of Fox News state polls …

Fast-acting methane from Aliso Canyon leak is boosting global warming  —  Pilot and UC Davis scientist Stephen Conley points out the air intakes on his pollution-detecting plane that measure methane emissions from the Aliso Canyon leak.  (Joe Proudman / UC Davis)

The ‘class clown’ who became Jihadi Jack: Shocked friends say first British white male to join ISIS was a ‘typical middle class boy’ who didn't believe in God  —  The first white British youth to join ISIS in Syria was a ‘class clown’ who was turned to Islam by his Muslim school friends, MailOnline can reveal.

Trump would ‘love’ a third-party Bloomberg bid  —  Donald Trump said Sunday he'd “love it” if former New York mayor and fellow billionaire Michael Bloomberg entered the presidential race as a third-party candidate.  —  “He's very opposite on me with guns and he's opposite on pro-life …