The Nightshift: 5 March 2018

Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Monday, 5 March 2018,  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. The Academy Awards were handed out last night. “The Shape of Water” won for Best Picture; the film’s director, Gullermo Del Toro, won for Best Director; Francis McDormand won for Best Actress for …

The Nightshift: 4 March 2018

Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Sunday, 4 March 2018,  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. Countries around the globe are evaluating their trade positions with the U.S. after President Trump signaled the possible start of a trade war by proposing heavy tariffs on the importation of both steel …

The Nightshift: 3 March 2018

Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Saturday, 3 March 2018,  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. Not good week for the White House. President Trump announced–without warning and despite advice from top economic advisors–new tariffs on imported steel (25%) and aluminium (10%). Most economists predict the tariffs, if implemented, …

The Nightshift: 2 March 2018

Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Friday, 2 March 2018,  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview that Russia has developed a new series of “nuclear powered” weapons–believed to be cruise missiles and an “underwater drone”– that can reach any country on …

The Nightshift: 1 March 2018

Press Clippings: Good Morning, it’s Thursday, 1 March 2018,  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. Embed from Getty Images Hope Hicks, the Communications Director for the Trump White House has unexpectedly resigned just 24 hours after she was interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee. Hicks had been one of President Trump’s closest …

The Nightshift: 28 February 2018

Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Wednesday, 28 February 2018,  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. Presidential advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner has been stripped of his top-level security clearance. Kushner had improperly, incompletely and/or inappropriately filled out security clearance forms a reported three times so far and allegedly …

The Nightshift: 27 February 2018

Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Tuesday, 28 February 2018,  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. The debate is on. President Trump has advanced some ideas to mitigate the gun violence problem in America. One is raising the legal age to buy a gun to 21 from 18 and …

The Nightshift: 26 February 2018

Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Monday, 26 February 2018,  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. Games Over: The 23rd Winter Olympics, held in PyeongChang, South Korea, have finished. The world was treated to a lavish and technologically innovative closing ceremony (amazing lighting, another drone tour de force, and …

The Nightshift: 25 February 2018

Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Sunday, 25 February 2018,  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. It’s all over in PyeonChang. The 2018 Winter Olympics are finishing off final events (broadcast via tape delay) and staging the closing ceremonies (see them tonight in prime time…). It’s been a great …

The Nightshift: 24 February 2018

Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Saturday, 24 February 2018,  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. Closing it out at the Olympics. Last night, the U.S. Curling team took the Gold Medal, beating Sweden in the finals. A historic win for U.S. Curling–it was the country’s first Gold Medal …