Midday Roundup: All they want for Christmas is a driver's license

Overruled. People who entered the United States illegally are lining up for drivers licenses in Arizona today after U.S. District Judge David Campbell ruled on Thursday Gov. Jan Brewer could not legally withhold licenses from 20,000 people eligible for President Barack Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. DACA gives certain people who illegally immigrated as children exemption from deportation and access to work permits. It does not provide them legal status. Brewer set the license limits in Arizona in response to DACA, to reduce the possibility that illegal immigrants could access public benefits for which they were not eligible.

Vandals! President Obama says North Korea’s unprecedented cyberattack against Sony Pictures is not an act of war. Speaking with CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Obama described the attack as vandalism. Earlier, the president said his administration took the attack seriously and would respond proportionally, but House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said U.S. intelligence personnel could have alreadydone so. “The problem here was not the fact that we didn’t have the capability to do something nearly in immediate time—we just didn’t get a decision,” Rogers said. Obama called on Congressto pass a cyber security law and said the private sector must do more to defend against cyberattacks. He also doubled down on his criticism of Sony Pictures for halting the controversial film’s release. He said the studio should not have caved to threats of more attacks.

Cleared. Florida State University quarterback Jameis Winston has been cleared of any student code of conduct violations stemming from sexual assault allegations against him. “The preponderance of the evidence has not shown that you are responsible for any of the charged violations of the Code,” former state Supreme Court Justice Major Harding wrote to Winston. The university hired Harding to arbitrate a hearing on the code of conduct. In December 2013, prosecutors decided they did not have enough evidence to criminally charge Winston, either.

Terror in France. An knife attack on three French policemen over the weekend appears to have been a lone-wolf terrorist act. The man, Bertrand Nzohabonayo, had ties to Islamic extremists and had recently posted a picture of an ISIS flag on social media. The incident occurred at a train station in Tours, France. It highlights the growing threat of unpredictable attacks by unstable individuals inspired by ISIS propaganda.

Hobbits rule. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies dominated weekend-before-Christmas box-office sales, earning more than $90 million in the United States. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and Annie were runners up, with substantially smaller returns—both garnered less than $20 million. The last installment of The Hobbit trilogy—and, if marketing is to be believed, Peter Jackson’s last movie about Middle Earth—performed the most poorly of the three movies. The Hobbit saga has trailed Jackson’s more popular The Lord of the Rings trilogy that debuted in 2001.

The Associated Press and WORLD Radio’s Carl Peetz contributed to this story.