Jon Stewart's Successor at The Daily Show: Your Top Headlines for Monday

It took a little longer than 40 days and 40 nights, but this Noah is also seeing some very unexpected daylight — Trevor Noah, that is, The Daily Show newbie who has been tapped to take over as host from legendary Jon Stewart. The 31-year-old Noah, hired three months ago, got the nod after a mere three appearances, a confidence booster to any new kid on the block. Stewart's announced retirement as the world's best known (and let's just say it, best) announcer of "fake news" was met with the same gravitas as the passing of the torch by an actual news veteran. And the program under Stewart has minted household names like Steven Colbert (the next host of The Late Show) and John Oliver (who pilots Last Week Tonight). Getting passed over for a promotion is, to quote executive coach and Influencer Judith Sherven, "perhaps one of the worst insults" in the workplace. This is a problem Noah doesn't have, and hasn't created. Other show veterans, Jason Jones and Samantha Bee (who remains as a producer) have moved on, and a fellow newbie with slightly more time on the job, Jessica Williams, told Twitter she was “unqualified.” The exact transition date isn't official yet, but Noah, reached by David Itzkoff of the New York Times on a Dubai leg of a comedy tour, could not sound more thrilled. “You don’t believe it for the first few hours,” Mr. Noah said. “You need a stiff drink, and then unfortunately you’re in a place where you can’t really get alcohol.” Can you also hear the rimshot?

Businesses are shutting the door on Indiana after the governor signed a religious freedom law critics say would allow businesses to discriminate against LGBT customers. On Sunday, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the fight to The Washington Post’s opinion pages. Earlier, Indianapolis-based Angie’s List suspended a $40-million expansion of its headquarters that would have created 1,000 jobs. Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff also canceled company events in the state and promised a “slow rolling of economic sanctions” until the law is thrown out. Other businesses like Yelp followed. Municipal employees of Seattle and San Francisco will no longer be able to expense travel to Indiana. Lawmakers may clarify the intent of the law, which he says was misinterpreted, but have no intention to change it, Gov. Mike Pence said Sunday.

The foreign ministers of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, the US and Iran are meeting to discuss a nuclear deal with Tehran. The deadline to reach a preliminary agreement is tomorrow. The price of oil dropped at the prospect of a deal, which would open up Iran’s reserves for foreign trade.

Greece has yet to present convincing proposals for reform. Athens sent a list to its creditors on Friday, but they consider it only a starting document, ideas that need to be refined. A more final document could come today or early this week.

Mexico is the first developing nation to pledge to cut its greenhouse gas emissions. The country aims for such emissions to peak by 2026 and drop 25% from its current trajectory by 2030. The UN is urging all countries to submit such a plan to curb their contribution to climate change ahead of a December summit in Paris. The deadline is tomorrow.

Pebble broke a Kickstarter record – again. The campaign for Pebble Time, the company’s new smart watch, ended this weekend with over $20 million raised – 40 times the initial goal – to become the most funded Kickstarter project ever. The original Pebble watch held that same title two years ago with $10 million. Of course, now Pebble is a 100-employee company with $26 million in outside funding: this campaign is more advanced purchase than crowd funding.

Github is combatting a major distributed denial of service attack. (Your tech minute: Github is an überpopular coding site programmers use to write and test their software. DDoS attacks consist in flooding a site with traffic so that legitimate visitors can’t get to it.) The attack seems to originate from China and target pages that helped circumvent Chinese government censorship.

Ellen Pao lost her gender discrimination suit against Kleiner Perkins. The case is over, but the issues it raised aren't going away, writes LinkedIn Influencer Jacki Zehner. "If 50% of the world, and 60% of the current college graduates, are women, to not have women in critical mass should be clear evidence that (firms) do not have the best human capital management practices in place,” she writes, in a post to which a summary cannot do justice.

Seaworld had a really bad idea. It ran a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #AskSeaWorld. When your company is the target of really savvy activists and has a entire documentary devoted to its misdeeds, you have to know this won’t end well.

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Author's note: this post was edited to reflect breaking news. That brilliant top paragraph is by John C. Abell.