People, Places, and Events for 2 January 2020

Escalation: US Airstrike Kills Key Iranian Military Commander 

US Dollar Starts The Year Off By Going Down

Julian Castro Exits US Presidential Race. Williamson Next?

David Stern, Who Built the Modern NBA, Dies at 77

The Nightshift publishes direct links to the world’s greatest English language newspapers to facilitate research and encourage understanding of the world’s events of the day as well as provide resources to follow certain segments of sports, business, society, art, and weather.

Our other site, donaldpierce.com is online and posting on finance, music, entertainment, sports, travel, design, medicine and whatever….this week, reviewing the year 2019 and the decade from 2010 to 2019…..check it out. Also, the playlist for December 2019 is at the bottom of this page; just click the button and our friends at Spotify will take care of the rest. Expect Christmas music and expect a new January playlist on 1 January 2020. Enjoy.

The Front Page Links

Daily Presidential Polls (updated continuously) from FiveThirtyEight.com 

New York Times Morning Briefing

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 Guardian

The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles)

Daily News Egypt (Cairo)

South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

The Moscow Times (Moscow)

Italian Newspapers in English

Le Figaro (Paris)

Bloomberg.com (New York)

The Toronto Star

The Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem)

The Japanese Times (Tokyo)

The Local (Oslo)

The Local (Italy)

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

Fast Company Compass Newsletter

Ars Technica  

Agence France-Presse

McClatchy DC Bureau

Xinua

UPI

Oil Prices Dot Com

Air Force Times

Straits Times (Singapore)

NOAA/National Hurricane Center (Miami)

Golf WRX

Sports Business Journal (US)

New York Times Impeachment Briefing (New York)

Reuters (International)

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