DAILY BEAST / REUTERS: U.S. investigators believe that North Korea likely hired hackers from outside the country to help with last month’s massive cyberattack against Sony Pictures, an official close to the investigation said on Monday. As North Korea lacks the capability to conduct some elements of the sophisticated campaign by itself, the official said, […]

NEW YORK TIMES: Few countries have invested more heavily in Russia than Germany has, rushing in to exploit new trade opportunities that opened up after the Cold War ended. More than 6,000 German companies set up operations there, and Russia became a major customer for German cars, pharmaceuticals and machinery… But now the rush is […]

USA TODAY: PHILADELPHIA … Now, after a USA TODAY investigation, authorities here and across the USA have promised to bring [accused sexual molester Yamin] Ren and thousands of other fugitives back to face justice regardless of where they are found. The newspaper found this year that more than 330,000 accused felons — including some wanted […]

AOL: …Speaking on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Commissioner William Bratton said the “pent-up frustrations” that have caused people to take to the streets in recent weeks go far beyond policing policies across the nation. “This is about the continuing poverty rates, the continuing growing disparity between the wealthy and the poor. It’s still about unemployment […]

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: The factory manager of the Landmark Plastic Company in Akron, Ohio, once told me that he was so concerned about high turnover among workers that he began holding exit interviews to find out why they were leaving. The answers surprised him. It wasn’t the meager pay, the noise, the mind-numbing […]

WASHINGTON POST: Iranian military involvement has dramatically increased in Iraq over the past year as Tehran has delivered desperately needed aid to Baghdad in its fight against Islamic State militants, say U.S., Iraqi and Iranian sources. In the eyes of Obama administration officials, equally concerned about the rise of the brutal Islamist group, that’s an […]

For the last two years, the federal government has required state Medicaid agencies to pay at least as much as Medicare pays for primary care services. Family doctors, internists and pediatricians have thus received Medicare-level payments for primary care, with the federal government making up the difference in costs…

NEW YORK TIMES: It was a victory that President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents had dreamed of: Insurgents seized a key army base in northern Syriaafter more than a year of trying. But the mood in this Turkish border town, flooded with Syrians who have fled both government bombings and extremist insurgents, was more bitter than celebratory. […]