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The Internet at Forty–Mid-Life Crisis?

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Casey Wilson and Michaela Watkins fired from SNL

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When Saturday Night Live returns for a new season, it will be without cast members Casey Wilson and Michaela Watkins. Lorne Michaels, creator of SNL, announced Friday the two women had been fired from the show.

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India sees tripled CO2 emissions by 2031

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“India released an analysis on Wednesday projecting that its emissions of greenhouse gases in 2031 will be triple today’s, although well below the global average on a per-capita basis. The report is part of India’s attempt to stake out a bargaining stance before the Copenhagen climate summit in December

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Franken talks down angry mob

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About a dozen tea party activists had staked out Franken's booth, and confronted him loudly when he arrived. But within minutes, he'd turned an unruly crowd into a productive conversation on health care.

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How the internet makes a local crime a federal one

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A small-town Kansas cop e-mailed naked pictures of himself to a woman he pulled over for drunk driving, offering a sexual relationship in exchange for helping her avoid the charges. A local problem became a federal case after investigators found that his e-mail servers were located in other states.

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White House to release visitor logs

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The Obama Admin. has yielded to pressure and will release the White House visitor logs, which will be posted online. The administration decided that releasing the logs was the best course of action after being sued two times by non-profit groups

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Squabbling, bitchy cliques, playground bullying… and that’s just the mothers!

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Some etched with fear and trepidation, others displaying flashes of cockiness as they wait for the reception class teacher to appear in the playground.

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French documentarian killed in El Salvador

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A French filmmaker who made a documentary about gangs in El Salvador has been shot dead on a road near the capital, police said.

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Bangladesh news duped by The Onion

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Two Bangladeshi newspapers have apologised after publishing an article taken from a satirical US website which claimed the Moon landings were faked. The Daily Manab Zamin said US astronaut Neil Armstrong had shocked a news conference by saying he now knew it had been an “elaborate hoax”.

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Texas exonerees become millionaires

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Under a new Texas law that takes effect this week, dozens of prisoners who have been wrongly convicted will become instant millionaires, the Associated Press reports.

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