Headlines from December 16, 2014

Taliban attacks an army-run school in northwestern Pakistan, killing more than 120 children.
Despite state charges and Muslim skepticism, Sydney attacker professed himself an advocate of peace and a spiritual healer.
The New Yorker‘s archival photos of MLK’s Selma march.
Inside the Ferguson movement, young people are leading—but not always allowed to speak.
Girlfriend of man killed holding toy gun in Walmart was grilled for an hour before police told her he was dead.
Loud music and noisy groups are bad. Russian Orthodox Church publishes guide for migrants moving to the big city.
An 83-year-old woman’s disastrous retouching of a century-old fresco has rejuvenated her small Spanish town’s local economy.
Invisible Children, the group behind the KONY 2012 campaign, is planning its exit.
Six years down the line and with oil prices falling, Keystone XL may no longer make economic sense.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in the Rio seawaters where the 2016 Olympic sailing and windsurfing events will be held.
Hornworts…breached the species barrier, trading DNA with an entirely different kind of plant—a fern.
That day, he wants to walk ahead alone. Inside Lawrence Lessig’s campaign finance reform movement.
Grills—of the sort popularized by Nelly—have been around since the seventh century BCE.
With no Cold War and uncertain funding, the next era of space exploration will be collaborative, not competitive.
Denmark claims the North Pole is connected to Greenland, and is thereby Danish property.
The Elf on the Shelf essentially teaches the child to accept an external form of non-familial surveillance.
An excerpt from Patton Oswalt’s new book on his attempted 1997 performance of Jerry Lewis’s The Day the Clown Cried.