AP – Bags were painstakingly checked, babies were frisked, and in-flight screens showing a plane’s location and flight path had to be switched off. Read more

AP – China brushed aside international appeals Tuesday and executed a British man convicted of drug smuggling and whose relatives say was mentally unstable and unwittingly lured into the crime. Read more

Brett Favre got the Minnesota Vikings to overtime. The Chicago Bears got the victory. Jay Cutler threw a 39-yard touchdown pass to Devin Aromashodu 9 minutes into overtime, and the Bears beat the fading Vikings 36-30 on Monday night to give New Orleans Saints homefield advantage throughout the NFC playoffs. Read more

AP – President Barack Obama on Monday vowed to use “every element of our national power” to keep Americans safe and said the failed Christmas Day plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner was “a serious reminder” of the need to continually adapt security measures against changing terrorist threats. Read more

AP – The man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner was not flagged in Britain as a potential terror suspect — he was merely put on a standard watch list of people whose visa applications were rejected, British officials said Monday. Read more