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 …

GOP fear and loathing in New Hampshire  —  NASHUA, N.H. — On Friday and Saturday, the New Hampshire Republican Party held its final big event before the February 9 GOP primary.  The First-in-the-Nation Presidential Town Hall, at the Nashua Radisson, attracted the local officials, activists …

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.

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.

Podcast: President Barack Obama  —  POLITICO's “Off Message” podcast relaunches for 2016 with Glenn Thrush's exclusive sit-down interview with President Barack Obama, conducted on Jan. 22 in the Oval Office.  —  A week ahead of the Iowa caucuses, the president makes his most expansive comments yet …

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.

Some Republican candidates spend big on ads, with little to show for it  —  Jeb Bush, center, at a campaign stop in Pelham, N.H., on Jan. 23.  A super PAC has spent at least $60 million on ads for Bush, but he remains stuck at about 6% in polls.  —  In a drumbeat that gets more insistent every week …

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.

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)

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 …