Dive! Dive!: The price of oil dropped below $50 a barrel yesterday causing the Dow Jones to dive 331 points. Investors are worried about dropping profits for oil companies and a slow economy in Europe. It’s hard to say whether …

Survivor: The talk of the nation is 7-year-old Sailor Gutzler, who survived a plane crash Friday night in western Kentucky and walked out of the chilly woods in shorts and bare feet. The two-engine Piper aircraft piloted by her father …

Nation: Tens of thousands of people, including police officers from across the country, are gathered in Brooklyn for the funeral today of New York police officer Wenjian Liu who was murdered with his partner Dec. 20th. Liu, the only child …

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 …