Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, annetteboardman and Besame. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Man Oh Man, wader, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw.
OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. Or sometimes a little bit later if the diarist is me. I have a terrible habit of cutting things close.
Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments.
Pictures of the week come from The Guardian (wildlife) (also the day’s best, also from The Guardian, and there is a video of the polar bear cub from the BBC), BBC, BBC Africa, the NY Post, Washington Post, Bloomberg, CNN, The Atlantic, and Roll Call.
You can find lots of coverage of the Christchurch shootings, so I will focus on other stories here. The Guardian has photos and several editorials, as well as a round-up of how the press covered it.
But on to other news, beginning with a discussion of the day itself from CNN:
Ides simply refers to the middle of the month. In Roman times it was known as the deadline for settling debts.Why beware the Ides of March?
