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POINTERS
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LENO OUT, FALLON IN
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PROSECUTORS
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HUFFINGTON
04.07.13
After months of rumors surrounding
NBC’s late-night talk shows, the
network announced this week that
Late Night host Jimmy Fallon will
take over The Tonight Show from Jay
Leno in 2014. Leno wished Fallon
congratulations, saying, “I hope you’re
as lucky as me and hold on to the job
until you’re the old guy. If you need
me, I’ll be at the garage.” NBC last tried to pull off a host transition in 2009, when
Conan O’Brien took over The Tonight Show. But it became a messy PR battle when the
network chose to reinstate Leno after just seven months.
Colorado prosecutors announced that they will seek the
death penalty for James Holmes, who is accused of killing
12 people and wounding 58 others during a shooting
rampage at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises
last July. “It’s my determination and my intention that in
this case for James Eagan Holmes, justice is death,” the
district attorney said. The defense recently proposed a plea
deal that would have given Holmes life in prison without
the possibility of parole, but prosecutors rejected it.
ACTIVISTS SAY MARCH WAS
DEADLIEST MONTH IN SYRIA
More than 6,000 people were killed in Syria last
month, according to the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights, making it the deadliest month in the
country’s two-year long conflict between those loyal
to President Bashar al-Assad and rebel forces. The
observatory has recorded a total of 62,554 deaths
since the start of the conflict, but it estimates that the
actual total is around 120,000, the head of the opposition group told Reuters. The
United Nations has said that more than 70,000 people have died in the conflict.