Taliban Storm Pakistani School, John Yoo Says CIA Torturers 'At Risk Legally', Where Have All the Fact Checkers Gone?: A.M. Links

• 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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