It’s Set: Jimmy Fallon To Replace Jay Leno On ‘Tonight Show’ In Spring 2014
Jay Leno will depart NBC’s ‘Tonight Show’ in Spring 2014; Jimmy Fallon to replace, NBC says.”
Once Again, Polls Show Attitudes Toward Guns Returning To Pre-shooting Levels
With the Senate soon to vote on initiatives including expanded background checks of gun purchasers and increased penalties for gun trafficking, a scan through data from polls about gun laws underscores how attitudes for the most part seem to be close to pre-Newtown levels.
A State Apart And, Politically, A World Away
On a wide variety of issues — gay marriage, tax policy, implementing Obamacare, the death penalty — states are moving in polar opposite directions from one another.
North Korea’s Latest Threat: It Will Restart Nuclear Reactor
A vow Tuesday from North Korea that it will restart a nuclear reactor that eventually could make about one bomb’s worth of plutonium a year further escalates tensions that were already high due to that nation’s almost daily threats, NPR’s Louisa Lim tells our Newscast Desk.
Divided Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of Upstart TV Service
We told you in February about Aereo, a service that allows its users to watch TV over the Internet. As we said at the time, the service was attracting waves of lawsuits.
Patent Ruling In India Could Boost Exports Of Cheap Medicine To Third World
A decision by India’s Supreme Court to reject Novartis AG’s bid to patent a version of one cancer drug could lead to more exports of cheap medicine from that country to “poor people across the developing world,” the BBC writes.
Cause Of Exxon Oil Spill In Arkansas Under Investigation
Authorities are investigating what caused an Exxon Mobil pipeline to rupture in Mayflower, Ark., Friday.
Immigration Change Is One Step Closer To A Bill
A final deal on a changing immigration laws is at hand but still incomplete, according to two of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” senators collaborating on it.
A New Search For 9/11 Victims’ Remains
About 60 dump trucks full of debris from the fallen World Trade Center will be sifted for victims’ remains beginning Monday.
Russia Calls On U.S., North Korea To Step Back From The Brink
Russia is calling on the U.S. and North Korea to end an escalating cycle of dangerous provocations after Pyongyang put its missile forces on high alert and American stealth bombers flew practice bomb runs over the Korean Peninsula.
