10 things you need to know today: December 6, 2015

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1. Obama says the U.S. 'will overcome terrorism'
2. Police: Stabbing in London Tube station investigated as 'terrorist incident'
3. Cruz slams calls for tighter gun control after San Bernardino shooting
4. 1 dead in Wisconsin hostage situation
5. Yemen governor dies in car bombing, ISIS claims responsibility
6. Israeli prime minister: 'Israel will not be a binational state'
7. Chad triple suicide bombing kills at least 15, wounds 130
8. Actor Morgan Freeman uninjured after plane makes emergency landing
9. Clemson snags ACC title, likely No. 1 playoff seed
10. Kim Kardashian, Kanye West welcome second child

By Julie Kliegman

last updated 6 December 2015

1. Obama says the U.S. 'will overcome terrorism'

During an address Sunday night in the Oval Office, President Obama said the threat from terrorists is "real," but the United States will "prevail by being strong and smart, resilient and relentless and by drawing upon every aspect of American power." Obama said the shooting in San Bernardino, California, last week was an "act of terrorism," and to fight terrorists, the U.S. military will "continue to hunt down" plotters around the world; continue to provide training and equipment to "tens of thousands of Iraqi and Syrian forces fighting [the Islamic State] on the ground to take away safe havens and "deploy special operation forces to accelerate that offensive'; work with allies to stop ISIS operations, disrupt plots, and cut off finances; and establish a timeline to "pursue ceasefires and a political resolution to the Syrian War" in order to then focus on destroying ISIS. Obama said he has also asked the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of State to "review the visa waver program under which the female terrorist in San Bernardino originally came to this country." The president also asked Congress to act so it's harder for people to buy "powerful assault weapons like the ones used in San Bernardino"; to make it illegal for people on no-fly lists to purchase guns; and to put in place stronger screening for those coming to the U.S. without a visa in order to determine if they traveled to war zones.

A Saturday knife attack at an East London Tube station is being investigated as a "terrorist incident," police said. A 29-year-old man in custody is suspected of stabbing three people, all of whom suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening. An eyewitness has reportedly claimed the suspected attacker, who has not been charged, spoke of retaliating for Western airstrikes on Syria. Police have not commented on that account.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) slammed recent calls for tighter gun control by the White House, The New York Times, and others. "Let me tell the editors of the Times something: You don't stop the bad guys by taking away our guns," he said Saturday at a FreedomWorks event for Republican presidential candidates in Iowa. "You stop the bad guys by using our guns." He also vowed to take a strong approach to fighting the Islamic State. "We will carpet-bomb them into oblivion."

One suspect died after being shot by police and another surrendered after a four-hour standoff in a Wisconsin motorcycle shop Saturday. Out of more than 70 officers who responded to the attack, one was injured. Authorities are still piecing together the conflict that caused a hostage situation in the Neenah shop, according to Police Chief Kevin Wilkinson. The hostages were released after negotiations. The suspects and injured police officer, who has been released from the hospital, have not been identified.

A close ally of Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi was killed in a car bombing Sunday that the Islamic State has reportedly claimed responsibility for. Aden Governor Jaafar Mohammed Saad, a former southern Yemeni general, and at least six others he was traveling with died in the attack. Hadi's government was exiled from Yemen in March by Houthi rebels, but has been using Aden, a southern port city, as a base to oversee forces since November.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's warning that the Palestinian Authority's collapse would endanger Israel. "Israel will not be a binational state, but in order to have peace, the other side needs to decide that it wants peace as well," Netanyahu said Sunday. Speaking at the Brookings Institution on Saturday, Kerry had urged Netanyahu to work with Palestinians. "The one-state solution is no solution at all for a secure, Jewish, democratic Israel living in peace," he said.

A triple suicide bombing on a Chad island killed at least 15 people and wounded 130 others, the government said Saturday. Four attackers, reportedly all women, also died in the explosions. Boko Haram, a Nigerian extremist group, is suspected in the attack, a top police official in Chad said. Many Nigerians have settled in the Lake Chad islands, a frequent site of attacks, after fleeing Boko Haram.

Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman was uninjured when his plane made an emergency landing in Mississippi on Saturday. "Sometimes things don't go as planned and a tire blew on takeoff, which caused other problems," he said in a statement. "But thanks to my excellent pilot, Jimmy Hobson, we landed safely without a scratch." Freeman, 78, was en route to Texas to shoot a National Geographic segment. The pilot, the only other person on board, was reportedly also uninjured.

Clemson beat North Carolina 45-37 in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game Saturday. The undefeated Tigers are expected to earn the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff. The playoff selection committee will announce the four teams competing for the championship title in an ESPN broadcast at 12:30 p.m. ET Sunday. Clemson will likely be joined by Oklahoma, Michigan State, and Alabama — the Big 12, Big Ten, and SEC champs, respectively.

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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.