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Nightly News Roundup

Nightly News Roundup

By: Jason Thompson
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Summary

A news headline show for people who love to hate the news and hate to love the news.

Art by Cory Drake.

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Episodes
  • Nightly News Roundup for May 12, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for May 12, 2026
    May 13 2026
    Donald Trump flew to Beijing for a lavish state dinner while telling Americans he doesn't think about their financial situation. Iran threatened to choke the Strait of Hormuz. Vladimir Putin test-fired a Sarmat nuclear ICBM and scheduled its combat deployment by year's end — while Washington offered him sanctions relief to pursue peace. The top one percent hit a 36-year wealth record; working-class wages didn't move. Trump Mobile charged $100 for a phone that might never ship. Jeffrey Epstein survivors testified steps from Mar-a-Lago and got the answer they always get: nothing. The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Tennessee erased its one Black-majority district. South Carolina almost did too. The FDA commissioner resigned over fruit-flavored vapes. A $1.2 trillion missile shield still has no specifications. Courts keep ruling Trump's tariffs illegal and then pausing those rulings. The letter never came. The war continues. The bill is yours. Tape rolls.

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    8 mins
  • Nightly News Roundup for May 7, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for May 7, 2026
    May 8 2026
    Trump gave Iran a one-pager and called it diplomacy. Markets called the ceasefire a buying opportunity. A kindergarten in Kyiv called it morning. This episode moves fast because the week did — from a UFC fighter's foreign policy assessment ("fantastic shape") to the dollar's worst six-month slide in half a century; from bipartisan harassment settlements being shredded on Capitol Hill to E. Jean Carroll submitting a $7.4 million interest invoice to the Supreme Court; from a Fort Worth jury and a seven-year-old girl who told her killer her mom said no, to a ceasefire that lasted until Russia found a kindergarten. Forty minutes. No filler. The memo is pending. The math isn't. Tape rolls.

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    5 mins
  • Nightly News Roundup for May 6, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for May 6, 2026
    May 7 2026

    Donald Trump threatened to resume bombing Iran if they didn't sign a one-page war-ending memo, oil crashed to $89, and markets celebrated; he then asked UFC fighter Justin Gaethje whether the war effort was in good shape and accepted "fantastic shape" as official foreign policy assessment; the dollar logged its worst six-month slide in fifty years — Trump called it a competitive advantage, economists called it a hidden tax, Americans called it rent; Rep. Nancy Mace subpoenaed a decade's worth of taxpayer-funded congressional harassment settlements, found bipartisan shame and shredded records, and confirmed the fund remains active; Trump asked the Supreme Court to determine whether presidents can defame sexual assault accusers for free while E. Jean Carroll submitted a bill for $7,462,492.74 in interest; a Fort Worth jury sentenced Tanner Horner to death for murdering 7-year-old Athena Strand — she told him her mom said he couldn't; Ukraine declared a ceasefire at midnight and Russia struck a kindergarten by morning. The memo is pending. The math isn't. The kindergarten is gone. Tape rolls.



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