WASHINGTON POST: …In reality, Turing’s greatest breakthrough wasn’t mechanical, but theoretical — that 1936 paper that Dyson was talking about. “On Computable Numbers,” written in England, was published in the proceedings of the London Mathematical Society after Turing arrived at Princeton, where he would spend two academic years earning a Ph.D. Amid the paper’s thicket […]

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: …A new website, www.truthaboutkathleenkane.com, defends her position that investigations against her are personal attacks. “The purpose of the website,” Kane said in a statement, “is to challenge, finally, all the smears, false accusations and illegal leaks from the grand jury process that has investigated me for eight months on the utterly baseless and […]

NEW YORK TIMES: …The deal is likely to give Greece breathing room. For one, it could help stem flights of deposits from the country’s banks, which have been bleeding money during the standoff between Greece and its creditors. But it will hardly move the country past the worst of its economic and financial troubles. The […]

NEW YORK TIMES: Nearly seven years after the financial crisis, banks are still churning out profits and wrestling with regulators. Yet Wall Street, by many important measures, appears to be in the middle of a humbling transformation. Bonuses are shrinking. Revenue growth has stalled. Entire business lines are being cut. And some investors are even […]

BLOOMBERG: Wal-Mart Stores’ Doug McMillon, a home-grown chief executive who got his start as a store employee, has made his most radical change yet at the world’s biggest retailer. He’s raising wages for 500,000 employees—both full-time and part-time. They’ll get at least $9 an hour starting this April, and at least $10 an hour starting […]

PHILLY.COM / AP: The top prosecutor in Philadelphia filed a legal challenge Wednesday to Gov. Tom Wolf’s death penalty moratorium, telling Pennsylvania’s highest court that the action was illegal and unconstitutional… The case raised in the filing involves Terrance Williams, who was convicted of the 1984 robbing and fatal tire-iron beating of another man in […]

PHILLY.COM: …The high court has asked the agency that oversees lawyers to consider disciplining Lanny J. Davis, one of state Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s lawyers, for making public a sealed order from the high court last month. “This is some definition of leak,” Davis said. “I did it on the record, during a press conference, […]

PENN LIVE: Gov. Tom Wolf has appointed former U.S. Rep. Tim Holden to chair the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, which oversees alcohol sales in the commonwealth. The board’s chairs are often named by incoming governors. The most recent chairman, Joseph “Skip” Brion, was appointed by Gov. Tom Corbett in 2011. He will remain a board […]

NEW YORK TIMES: …In an order filed on Monday, the judge, Andrew S. Hanen of Federal District Court in Brownsville, prohibited the Obama administration from carrying out programs the president announced in November that would offer protection from deportation and work permits to as many as five million undocumented immigrants. The first of those programs […]

USA TODAY Column: Q: Greece has been pushing back on all of the austerity measures that European leaders are putting in place. What’s your sense of what’s happening in Europe and how serious this is for the global economy? A: The larger question is, is Europe in danger of becoming the new Japan — with […]