Cyber Spat: The US has slapped new sanctions on North Korea in retaliation for the hacking attack on Sony Pictures …. despite doubts among private sleuths that North Korea was actually behind it. The sanctions target 10 public officials and …

Mario Cuomo: Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who served three terms as an articulate leader in liberal politics and was a potential presidential candidate who never ran, has died at age 82 in New York. Cuomo was the father …

AirAsia: Bad weather and high seas have hampered the search for the wreckage of AirAsia 8501 in the Java Sea. Only nine bodies have been found of the 162 people on board and no major pieces of the fuselage have …

Missing Jet: Search teams say they have found wreckage and bodies from AirAsia flight 8501 in the Java Sea off the coast of Borneo. Searchers say they can see what appears to be the shape of part of the fuselage …

Missing Jet: Investigators have no idea what happened to the missing AirAsia jetliner with 162 people on board. Some unidentified debris has been spotted. The head of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said at a news conference in Jakarta, “Based …

Christmas: In his traditional Christmas address Pope Francis denounced the “brutal persecution” of religious and ethnic minorities. “May Christmas bring them hope, as indeed also to the many displaced persons, exiles and refugees, children, adults and elderly, from this region …

Could it Be Satan?: The North Korean Internet went completely offline for nine hours yesterday after several days of instability. The net crash came just days after President Obama promised a “proportional” response to the suspected North Korean hacking of …

The Kimche Hack: President Obama said Sony Pictures made a mistake cancelling its movie The Interview because of anonymous terror threats by computer hackers. “I wish they’d spoken to me first,” the president said yesterday before departing for his Christmas …

Econ 101: The Dow Jones rose 421 points yesterday, the market’s biggest one-day spike in three years. Investors were excited about earnings reports. At the same time the price of oil continued to slide under $56 a barrel. While that’s …

Cuban Surprise: President Obama shocked the world and his Republican opponents announcing yesterday that 50 years of shunning Cuba is a failure and that the US is re-establishing diplomatic relations with the island country just 90 miles off the coast …