| Former President Jimmy Carter says cancer gone from brain Posted: 06 Dec 2015 10:50 AM PST  Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Sunday that his most recent MRI brain scan revealed no signs of cancer but that he would continue treatment. Carter, 91, started treatment in August for melanoma that had spread from his liver to his brain. In a brief written statement, Carter did not say when the latest scan was performed but confirmed it "did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots nor any new ones." "I will continue to receive regular three-week immunotherapy treatments of pembrolizumab," said Carter, who served as president from 1977 to 1981.
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| Obama to urge Americans not to give into fear of terrorism Posted: 06 Dec 2015 10:18 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare Oval Office address, President Barack Obama on Sunday night will urge Americans to not give into fear following attacks in Paris and California, while trying to assure the public that he takes the threat of terrorism seriously.
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| Red Cross seeking permission to work in IS territory Posted: 06 Dec 2015 08:49 AM PST  The International Committee of the Red Cross has said it is trying to establish relations with the Islamic State group in hopes of delivering aid to the 10 million people living under its control. "Yes, we are of course looking at building a relationship" with IS, ICRC Director-General Yves Daccord told AFP in an interview. The comments were made ahead of an agency conference in Geneva, held every four years, which gathers some 2,000 ICRC employees and national Red Cross/Red Crescent staffers for talks on the challenges facing humanitarian workers in increasingly complex environments.
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| Obama to make prime-time address after California attack Posted: 06 Dec 2015 10:21 AM PST  The president is expected to laying out how the government will keep Americans safe and defeat the Islamic State group.
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| Police call London Underground stabbing a 'terrorist incident' Posted: 06 Dec 2015 09:44 AM PST  By James Davey and William James LONDON (Reuters) - A knife attacker slashed a man at an east London metro station, reportedly screaming "This is for Syria!", in what police described as a terrorist incident, prompting a senior minister to urge Britons on Sunday not to be intimidated. A pool of blood near the ticket barriers at the Leytonstone Underground station, about six miles (10 km) east of central London, could be seen in footage posted on Twitter that also showed the suspect confronting police on Saturday evening. One man, thought to be 56 years old, suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries and was in a stable condition at a London hospital.
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| Baltimore officer's knowledge at heart of Freddie Gray trial Posted: 06 Dec 2015 04:19 AM PST  Prosecutors face a tough in the trial of Officer William Porter.
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| Woman in deadly California rampage became fervently devout Posted: 06 Dec 2015 06:28 AM PST  In the final few years of Tashfeen Malik's life, the people around the young woman saw her dress ever more conservatively and urge people ever more ardently to live a devout life. For an aunt in Malik's ...
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| Chicago cops' versions of teen's killing at odds with video Posted: 05 Dec 2015 02:23 PM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — Police officers who watched a colleague shoot a black Chicago teenager 16 times filed reports depicting a very different version of events than what dashcam footage showed, portraying the teen as far more menacing than he appeared in the video.
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