• Sony Hack: North Korea Threatens Retaliation on 'Whole U.S. Mainland' If Obama Takes Action on Them

  A top North Korean defense committee, through the country’s official Korean Central News Agency, issued a statement that threatened attacks on “the White House, the Pentagon and the whole U.S. mainland” if President Obama tries to punish them.

  

• Shooter Kills Two NYPD Police Officers and Later Turns Gun on Himself

  Two police officers in New York City died on Saturday after a man walked up to their patrol car and shot them “execution style” before he fled and fatally shot himself.

  

• President Obama Says U.S. Will Figure Out How to Deal with North Korea’s Sony Hack

  President Obama announced Friday afternoon that the United States will respond “proportionally” to the attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment after the FBI pinned the blame on the North Korean government.

  

• NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Discovers New 'Alien Planet'

  After NASA thought its spacecraft no longer worked, the Kepler space telescope started working again and brought back a discovery of a new "alien planet" 180 light years away from Earth.

  

• Mass Stabbing In Cairns, Australia Leaves Eight Children Dead, One Woman Arrested

  Australian police reported Friday that eight children have been killed and a woman was arrested in the Australian state of Queensland in a mass stabbing. This comes on the heels of a hostage standoff at a Sydney cafe Tuesday that left three people dead.