A US official says federal investigators have connected the Sony Pictures hacking to North Korea. North Korea denies involvement. It’s described the hacking attack as a righteous deed,after Sony produced a movie about a fictional plot to assassinate that country’s leader.

 

The three remaining members ofthe “Cuban Five” intelligence group return to Cuba. They had been jailed in Florida, and were released as the US and Cuba announced a sudden thaw indiplomatic relations. 

 

Authorities are searching incentral Texas for a man who shot a TV news meteorologist on Wednesday morning.Patrick Crawford is hospitalized with wounds to the shoulder and abdomen. 

 

And India successfully launchesa rocket. That’s described as taking that country a step closer to sending astronauts into space.

 

Sandy Kozel，the Associated Press with AP News Minute.