Does soft news always win? Missing red panda trumps Supreme Court and Snowden

There was an important Supreme Court ruling early in the day. An international fugitive was possibly on a flight from Moscow to Cuba. The Dow was diving. But by midday in the nation’s capital on Monday, a red panda who disappeared from the National Zoo had hijacked the news cycle.

via A Parallel Search for a Missing Panda – NYTimes.com.