Nightly News Roundup for Apr. 15, 2026

The White House denied requesting a ceasefire it simultaneously confirmed negotiating while Donald Trump declared he'd permanently opened the Strait of Hormuz and predicted Xi Jinping would hug him; Representative Yassamin Ansari filed six impeachment articles against Pete Hegseth — including a school bombing that killed 160 children — while the Pentagon said nothing and the children stayed dead; the Supreme Court handed DOGE your Social Security records without explanation and the Fourth Circuit called itself "inferior" and complied; Trump demanded clean renewal of warrantless surveillance he once called tyranny, with the CIA's best argument being a foiled Taylor Swift concert attack; Katie Miller declared falling teen birth rates a national emergency and called reproduction "our biological destiny" — a White House official's wife, posting publicly about teenage girls' bodies; the Justice Department, now run by Jeanine Pirro, asked a court to erase the seditious conspiracy convictions of men who stormed the Capitol, convictions Trump already pardoned but now wants scrubbed from the historical record; a federal jury found Live Nation and Ticketmaster guilty of criminal monopoly and fined them $280 million with no structural remedy — you will keep paying the fees; JD Vance lost Iran negotiations while Trump watched UFC, watched Orbán lose Hungary, then flew home to warn his own Pope about theology; a federal judge ruled the DOJ's criminal probe of the Fed exists solely to pressure Jerome Powell into resigning, and Trump called Powell bad at his job on Fox Business anyway; and Mississippi — dead last in health care, 49th in economy — cannot get whiskey to its bars because software ate the conveyor belt and the Senate killed the fix without comment. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.