Biggest news you missed this weekend
Former president Jimmy Carter says he's cancer-free
Carter, 91, announced the news to attendees of a Sunday school class he was teaching at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., according to reports. Carter's grandson, who celebrated on Twitter, says no cancer was detected in his grandfather's latest scan, according to the Associated Press. The former president announced in August that he had cancer but that he hoped it was limited to his liver. He later said doctors found small melanoma lesions on his brain. He received drug treatments and radiation therapy.
Aunt: San Bernardino suspect 'became more devout'
The slowly emerging profile of Tashfeen Malik, the female suspect in last week's shooting rampage in San Bernardino, Calif., is the story of a smart, hardworking and modern woman who became more devout and dressed more conservatively in recent years. In Malik's Pakistani hometown of Karor Lal Esan, her aunt Hifza Batool, said the family has been stunned by the shootings being investigated by the FBI as terrorism. The aunt told the BBC that Malik brought a "bad name" to the family and that family members can't fathom how she went so wrong. Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, opened fire at a holiday party at the Southern California city's Inland Regional Center on Wednesday, killing 14 people.
Report: Officer shot Tamir Rice within a second of exiting squad car
Police officers in the Tamir Rice case rolled up and fatally shot him so fast he had no time to hear or respond to any orders they gave, according a report released by Tamir's family. Contrary to the officers' version of the incident, Tamir was not reaching for his waistband the moment before Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed him Nov. 22, 2014, according to the report by Jesse Wobrock, an accident reconstruction and biomechanics expert. Wobrock conducted his analysis based on surveillance video of the incident provided by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty. The report was issued late Friday and first reported by WKYC in Cleveland.
London police treat subway stabbing as terrorism
Police are treating a stabbing attack at a London subway station as a terrorist incident. Officers were called to reports of "a number of people" stabbed at Leytonstone underground station in east London on Saturday evening, Scotland Yard said. The attacker shouted, "This is for Syria," according to media reports. A bystander shouted, "You ain't no Muslim bruv (brother)" in video posted on social media purportedly from the incident. Police said a man, believed to be 29, was tasered and arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. He remained in police custody Sunday.
College Football Playoff matchups are set
Clemson and Oklahoma will meet in the Orange Bowl on Dec. 31, and Alabama will play Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl. Those are the pairings for the second annual College Football Playoff, announced Sunday by Playoff selection committee chairman Jeff Long. Clemson is the top seed, followed by Alabama at No. 2, Michigan State at No. 3 and Oklahoma at No. 4. Each team won its respective conference championship.
Police report in Laquan McDonald case at odds with video
Hundreds of pages of police documents released late Friday evening from the investigation of the police officer shooting death of Laquan McDonald show that cops at the scene offered a starkly different picture of what led to fellow officer Jason Van Dyke shooting McDonald 16 times than what a dashcam video released last week depicts. The court-ordered release of the video of the 17-year-old McDonald being gunned down last year by a police officer on a Chicago street appears to show that the teen had been shot as he was veering away from police officers.
Kim Kardashian, Kanye West welcome son
North West is officially a big sister. Parents Kim Kardashian, 35, and Kanye West, 38, welcomed their second child, a boy, Saturday morning. The announcement came via Kim's website. "Mother and son are doing well," their two-sentence statement read. The couple have not announced the new baby's name.
Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, President Obama to discuss the threat of terrorism
Obama will highlight the government's efforts to prevent terrorism and reaffirm his commitment to keeping the nation safe during his prime-time address Sunday. Obama will discuss the investigation into the California shooting, including evidence that the killers had been radicalized in support of the Islamic State.
