Nightly News Roundup for May 20, 2026

Two cops who bled defending the Capitol sued to stop their attackers from collecting a $1.8 billion taxpayer payout. Donald Trump is in no hurry to end a war with a country threatening to go global. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping condemned irresponsible foreign policy, agreed on pandas, and couldn't close a pipeline. Thomas Massie lost the most expensive House primary in history for asking about Epstein. A Tennessee county owed $835,000 after jailing a retired cop 37 days for a Facebook post. Cyanide bombs returned to 245 million acres of public land. Meta fired 8,000 people to build AI, then used AI to watch the ones it kept. Minimum wage will kill jobs. Taxing the rich will kill jobs. AI taking your job is just the market. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.