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Good Morning, it’s Monday, 12 March 2018  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift.
It’s on: March Madness is here. Last night, the NCAA selected the teams to play for the men’s collegiate national basketball championship. Four teams were given Number One seeds: Virginia, Xavier, Kansas, and Villanova. Did your team make the Big Dance? Here’s a link to the NCAA playoff brackets. Tournament play starts tomorrow. Office bracket pools start today. Hop to it and good luck.
Daylight savings time started yesterday. Be careful driving or just going through the daily routine today and for the next couple of weeks. The time change is a bigger deal than most suspect.
Today is National Girl Scout Day. Support the Girl Scouts and, if you haven’t already, buy some cookies.
What We’re Listening to in the Media Bunker: The March Playlist, compiled by music editor/music correspondent DJ Tschugge. The Nightshift is the only news site that provides you with music to get and keep you moving. And remember–we add new music every day. 
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below. The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below. As always, thanks for dropping by. We have added the English language feed of Agence France-Presse to the news index along with the McClatchy DC News Bureau.
 
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 Boston Globe (Boston)
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)
The Local (Oslo)
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 Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
Ars Technica  
Agence France-Presse
McClatchy DC Bureau
The Fine Print: Embed image courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21s century on file and online. If you need an image, they are your source. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. This post is number 1691 for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications and is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. It’s rapid iteration.Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.

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Good Morning, it’s Sunday, 11 March 2018  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift.
China’s President Xi Jinping has reset the legislative and procedural table in China to allow him to stay in power indefinitely, i.e. for life. Not necessarily a good thing for a country that needs to continue to evolve to handle its’ growth and wealth.
The NCAA will announce the teams invited to play in their National Championship Collegiate basketball tournament today. Known as “March Madness”, sixty four teams will be selected; the teams will play in four different divisions. The NCAA basketball tournament is the most popular event in college sports.
In other sports news, Tiger Woods is in the hunt for the Valspar golf championship being held in Florida. Woods is just one stroke off the lead going into the final round.
Today is the start of Daylight Savings Time. Set your clocks ahead one hour, if you haven’t already.
What We’re Listening to in the Media Bunker: The March Playlist, compiled by music editor/music correspondent DJ Tschugge. The Nightshift is the only news site that provides you with music to get and keep you moving. And remember–we add new music every day. 
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below. The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below. As always, thanks for dropping by. We have added the English language feed of Agence France-Presse to the news index along with the McClatchy DC News Bureau.
 
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 Boston Globe (Boston)
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)
The Local (Oslo)
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 Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
Ars Technica  
Agence France-Presse
McClatchy DC Bureau
The Fine Print: Embed image courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21s century on file and online. If you need an image, they are your source. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. This post is number 1690 for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications and is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. It’s rapid iteration.Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.

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Good Morning, it’s Saturday, 10 March 2018  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift.
U.S. wanna-be-pharmaceutical executive, Martin Shkreli, was sentenced yesterday to 7 years in prison for financial fraud for his management and initiative with a variety of drug companies and hedge funds. He received massive public criticism for taking control of the drug Daraprim and then raising its’ price 5000%. The drug is used by HIV/AIDs patient; it was priced at $13.50/tablet before Shkreli gained control of it; he raised the price to $750 per tablet. Shkreli was talented but socially inept and turned to the dark side. It did not end well. Orange is the new black.
The art of the deal. Not. It has been reported that President Trump’s attorneys are seeking a “deal” with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. In exchange for an interview with Trump, the theory goes, Trump and his legal team would receive assurances that the investigation–as it relates to Trump–would wrap up within sixty (60) days of the date of the interview. That’s not going to happen. First, the entire investigation is about Trump; the people charged so far in the investigation are enablers and cohorts; second, an investigation is not a finite event (like how long will it take to paint a house) because of the almost infinite number of variables or leads that can be developed. The fact that Trump’s attorneys are seeking a “deal” in advance of an interview of Trump tells you how much jeopardy the President is possibly facing.
And the drama continues: It has been revealed that Michael Cohen, President’s Trump personal attorney, used both his Trump organization email and his Trump organization title in communications with adult film star Stormy Daniels, who has alleged that President Trump had an affair with her over a decade ago. Not a good move, in an incident full of them.
ESPN has shut down the “revamped” Sports Center 6PM edition. The show was designed to take the time-honored format of Sports Center and update it with two hosts, Jamele Hill and Michael Smith, who had a popular talk show on the network and who were known for their personal chemistry and oft-controversial viewpoints. The show bombed because sports fans expect more facts and less personal opinions from Sports Center. The network is in the throws of a long-term struggle to cut costs and remain relevant in an era of cord cutting and societal change.
Today is National Mario Day, celebrating “Super Mario”, the hero of the Nintendo video games. Time to drag out the gaming console!
What We’re Listening to in the Media Bunker: The March Playlist, compiled by music editor/music correspondent DJ Tschugge. The Nightshift is the only news site that provides you with music to get and keep you moving. And remember–we add new music every day. 
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below. The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below. As always, thanks for dropping by. We have added the English language feed of Agence France-Presse to the news index along with the McClatchy DC News Bureau.
 
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 Boston Globe (Boston)
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)
The Local (Oslo)
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 Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
Ars Technica  
Agence France-Presse
McClatchy DC Bureau
The Fine Print: Embed image courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21s century on file and online. If you need an image, they are your source. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. This post is number 1689 for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications and is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. It’s rapid iteration.Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.

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Good Morning, it’s Friday, 9 March 2018  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift.
Surprise! In a major diplomatic breakthrough, North Korea and the United States will meet to discuss easing the tensions between the two countries. Kim Jung Un of North Korea and President Donald Trump of the United States will meet face-to-face if things go as planned. This meeting–if it actually takes place–could greatly reduce the tensions between North Korea, South Korea and the United States. The meeting is a move in the right direction.
The British police have said that a former Russian spy now living in Britain was poisoned, along with his daughter, by the Russians using a very sophisticated form of a nerve agent. The spy–once a double agent for the British–was repatriated to the U.K. in a spy swap with Russian.
Today is National Get Over It Day. You know what to do…..if something’s been bugging you, get over it. It’s also National Day of Unplugging. Also simple to celebrate: just put down that cell phone or iPad and see if you can make it 24 hours without over-indulging in the digital lifestyle.
What We’re Listening to in the Media Bunker: The March Playlist, compiled by music editor/music correspondent DJ Tschugge. The Nightshift is the only news site that provides you with music to get and keep you moving. And remember–we add new music every day. 
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below. The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below. As always, thanks for dropping by. We have added the English language feed of Agence France-Presse to the news index along with the McClatchy DC News Bureau.
 
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 Boston Globe (Boston)
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)
The Local (Oslo)
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 Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
Ars Technica  
Agence France-Presse
McClatchy DC Bureau
The Fine Print: Embed image courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21s century on file and online. If you need an image, they are your source. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. This post is number 1688 for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications and is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. It’s rapid iteration.Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.

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Good Morning, it’s Thursday, 8 March 2018  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift.
Stormy Warning. The media ramped up again yesterday to further inflame the scandal surrounding the President (Trump), his personal attorney(Cohen), and a porn star (Daniels). The center of the storm, President Trump, is being challenged in court by the porn star, Stormy Daniels, who alleges she had an affair with Mr. Trump before he was President; she also alleges that the “hush money” agreement she was asked to sign by attorney Michael Cohen was invalid since Mr. Trump himself never signed it. Ms. Daniels now wants to “tell her story”; she has hinted that she has “images”. It’s all so…….messy.  Trying to tap dance around the questions that were tossed at her in at the daily White House press briefing yesterday, Sarah Sanders flunked Deflection 101, and raised more questions than she settled. Coming on the heels of the Gary Cohn registration, the whole thing is unwanted attention on an ill-advised adventure.
A huge winter storm has covered the northeast with three feet of snow in some places. So much for an early spring.
Coca-Cola is experiment with alcopop drinks, releasing a new drink in Japan that combines alcohol with sparkling water. Another step in “teaching the world to sing”?
Today is International Women’s Day. Celebrate the great women of the world and those in your life.
What We’re Listening to in the Media Bunker: The March Playlist, compiled by music editor/music correspondent DJ Tschugge. The Nightshift is the only news site that provides you with music to get and keep you moving. And remember–we add new music every day. 
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below. The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below. As always, thanks for dropping by. We have also added the English language feed of Agence France-Presse to the news index along with the McClatchy DC News Bureau.
 
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 Boston Globe (Boston)
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)
The Local (Oslo)
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 Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
Ars Technica  
Agence France-Presse
McClatchy DC Bureau
The Fine Print: Embed image courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21s century on file and online. If you need an image, they are your source. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. This post is number 1687 for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications and is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. It’s rapid iteration.Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.

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Good Morning, it’s Wednesday, 7 March 2018,  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift.
Gary Cohn, the President’s Chief Economic Advisor, has resigned. Mr. Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs executive, has been seriously and stridently opposed to President Trump’s planned tariffs on steel and aluminum; he refused to go on “tour” and support the tariffs because–well, he’s the chief economic advisor and he knows that the tariffs will ultimately be very bad for the U.S. The stock market responded by dropping approximately 300 points when it opened this morning. Interesting economic fact: there are 80 times more people employed in the industries that use steel and aluminum than in the production of steel and aluminum in this country. So…do the math about how many will be hurt and how many will be helped by the tariff.
Remember Stormy Daniels, the porn star who said she had an affair with Trump before he became president, and collected hush money in the form of a $130,000 payment from Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen? Ms. Daniels is suing the President, saying the NDA (non-disclosure agreement) is invalid because Trump never signed it. Will she have to return the money?
Today is National Cereal Day. Get a bowl, some cereal, and some milk and you’re celebrating.
What We’re Listening to in the Media Bunker: The March Playlist, compiled by music editor/music correspondent DJ Tschugge. The Nightshift is the only news site that provides you with music to get and keep you moving. And remember–we add new music every day. 
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below. The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below. As always, thanks for dropping by. We have added the English language feed of Agence France-Presse to the news index along with, new today, the McClatchy DC News Bureau.
 
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 Boston Globe (Boston)
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)
The Local (Oslo)
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 Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
Ars Technica  
Agence France-Presse
McClatchy DC Bureau
The Fine Print: Embed image courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21s century on file and online. If you need an image, they are your source. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. This post is number 1684 for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications and is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. It’s rapid iteration.Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.

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Good Morning, it’s Tuesday, 6 March 2018,  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift.
North Korea said that it would suspend nuclear testing and hold talks with South Korea (and the U.S.) in April. This is a massive breakthrough for the Korean peninsula.
Sam Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide, went “rogue” last night on MSNBC and said that 1) he would not cooperate with the Special Counsel’s subpoena for documents and emails; 2) would not show up for a grand jury hearing on Friday; and 3) said that “perhaps President Trump did something wrong” during the campaign”. Nunberg’s wild multiple interviews overwhelmed television and social media last night.  Hmmm.
And more hmmmmm. Michael Cohen, President Trump’s attorney, has been reported as saying that the President did not reimburse him for the $130,000 that he reportedly paid to porn star Stormy Daniels to encourage her to sign a non-disclosure agreement about the alleged affair between Daniels and Trump. Hmm. Why should he care? He initially said he did it for his friend.  Hmmm.
And, finally, someone stole Francis McDormand’s Oscar after Sunday’s Academy Awards. The suspect was captured and the award is now in safe hands.
Today is National Oreo Cookie Day. That’s a good and easy one to celebrate: get some milk, get some Oreo cookies, start celebrating.
What We’re Listening to in the Media Bunker: The March Playlist, compiled by music editor/music correspondent DJ Tschugge. The Nightshift is the only news site that provides you with music to get and keep you moving. And remember–we add new music every day. 
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below. The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below. As always, thanks for dropping by. We have added the English language feed of Agence France-Presse to the news index.
 
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 Boston Globe (Boston)
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)
The Local (Oslo)
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 Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
Ars Technica  
Agence France-Presse
The Fine Print: Embed image courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21s century on file and online. If you need an image, they are your source. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. This post is number 1682 for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications and is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. It’s rapid iteration.Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.