Nightly News Roundup for March 30, 2026

Donald Trump threatened to obliterate Kharg Island on Truth Social while Iran denied any peace talks existed and thousands of U.S. troops loaded into the region anyway; the Supreme Court scheduled April 1st arguments on birthright citizenship, a case the administration is defending with Confederate-era white supremacist legal theory the Court already rejected in 1898; measles hit 1,566 Americans across 30 states this year, with outbreaks at Utah temples, Texas detention centers, and a Florida Catholic university, and the vaccine is free but people are skipping it; Proud Boys who beat Capitol Police officers got pardoned by Donald Trump and immediately sued those same officers for $18 million, with Christopher Worrell — who called his own conduct "inexcusable" at sentencing — now claiming police attacked him; Marjorie Taylor Greene called Fox News "fake news" for cheerleading the Iran war, Ann Coulter agreed, and the network that paid $787 million to settle the Dominion defamation case is now too dishonest for the people it created; Moody's put U.S. recession odds at 50% as oil cracked $112 a barrel, gas hit $3.99, and the Federal Reserve held rates and said nothing useful; and Iranian hackers broke into FBI Director Kash Patel's personal Gmail and published photos of him posing with rum and cigars, because the man running America's premier law enforcement agency skipped two-factor authentication. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.