The Nightshift: 4 August 2017

Press Clippings:
Good Morning, it’s Friday, 4 August 2017, and this is the morning  edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed.
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The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that a grand jury has been empaneled in Washington, DC by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The grand jury will enable the Special Counsel, who is investigating possible collusion by the current administration with Russia, to step up his investigation, issue subpoenas, obtain documents and other material, in preparation for a possible indictment. A grand jury is a tool of prosecutors and is empaneled if prosecutors (in this case, the Special Counsel), believe a crime has been committed. Drip, Drip, Drip.
The “torch tower” in Dubai, 86 stories high, suffered a huge multi-floor fire yesterday, necessitating the evacuation of the residents in the tower. This is the second fire for the tower in two and a half years ago.
The Dow is now above 22,000–a new high. How long can it continue to go up? And what does Washington and politics have to do with it?
Today is National Coast Guard Day. The Coast Guard was founded in 1790.
Catch up with what’s going on in the world by reading the front pages of the World’s Greatest Newspapers.
The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below.
The Times (London
Financial Times (UK)
The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
The Wall Street Journal (European edition)
Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
New York Times (New York)
The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles)
Daily News Egypt (Cairo)
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
The Moscow Times (Moscow)
Le Figaro (Paris)
Bloomberg.com (New York)
The Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem)
The Japanese Times (Tokyo)
Sputnik (Moscow)
The Buenas Aires Herald (Buenas Aires)
The Sidney Morning Herald (Sidney)
Deadline Hollywood (Hollywood)
FiveThirtyEight (New York City)
Politico (Washington, DC)
Lawfareblog (Washington, DC)
Wired (San Francisco, CA)
The Fine Print:  Embed courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st Century on file. The image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing.  The Nightshift is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. This post is number 1299 for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications. This month, comments on the world’s news have been (severely) limited and a photo of one important story of the day is included. It’ rapid iteration. Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world. 

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