Taliban
gunmen attacked a Pakistani public school Tuesday morning,
killing at least 126 people—mostly children and teens—at the
military-run facility.- John Yoo, a primary author of the Bush-era Justice Department
memos authorizing torture, gave a ‘whoa, if true’ to
the Senate report on CIA interrogation
practices and suggested that CIA agents may be “at
risk legally.” - Google says death threats
don’t trump copyright. - New York magazine’s tale of a boy-wonder investor
worth $72 million turns out
to have been completely false. - The Senate
confirmed 37-year-old Vivek Murthy—founder of the pro-Obamacare
group Doctors for America and an advocate for gun control—as
surgeon general on Monday night, overcoming strong opposition from
the National Rifle Association and Republican leaders. - Do workers suffer when big chain stores overtake small, indie
retailers? Not
as far as wages are concerned, Stanford researchers have
found. - Pregnant women addicted to opioids in Tennessee say
they’re avoiding prenatal care now that the state has
criminalized giving birth to a baby that tests positive for
drugs. One of the mothers that was arrested committed suicide in
November. - Why are China’s largest state-owned property developers
investing in affordable housing in Brooklyn?
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