Episodes
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Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 27, 2026
A napkin's what's left of the workers' share of the economy, lowest since the year the Depression started. Trump renames a lake nobody outside America recognizes, then sends the bill to a golf course in D.C. while wildfire crews abandon the front lines to polish a fountain. RFK Jr. lies to…
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Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 26, 2026
A Navy captain's rape gets filed as a workplace injury. The Kennedy Center can't survive without Trump's name bolted to it. Pirro tries to erase Bannon's conviction with a Post-it note. Hegseth fires the general who wouldn't bury the Kid Rock chopper probe, promotes the guy who delivered the...
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Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 25, 2026
The Dolly Parton Episode. Only positive news. A school bus program goes permanent in Detroit, a 40-year-old bird comeback photobombs a wildfire camera, and a cancer vaccine finally lands a punch cancer can't answer. A lawyer writes 100 checks by hand, a pizza shop builds a wall out of $10…
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Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 24, 2026
Trump makes 3,600 trades in 90 days, clears $750 million before the regulators he runs catch up. Axon spikes, ICE buys tasers. Nvidia spikes, China buys chips. Six tech giants spike, the AI plan drops. Eric and Don Jr. call war profiteering "patriotic capitalism" and cash $3.2 billion in…
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Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 18, 2026
Rollins guts the Roadless Rule while Trump paints Hormuz blue and calls it America. Pirro loses twice in one week. Rubio sanctions the prosecutors chasing actual war criminals. Bessent hands cartels and condo-buyers a shredder. Bond yields hit 2007 levels. Eight kids, one toilet, one fence. Tape...
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Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 10, 2026
Trump admits his Reflecting Pool sabotage story had no proof, then keeps blaming an Olympian anyway. The DOJ can't document its own Epstein redactions. Lauren Boebert's son faces child exploitation charges. Salmonella jalapeños hit 26 states. Twenty-one straight court losses over phantom voter...
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Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 7, 2026
El-Sayed's Senate primary win drags out 2001-era Islamophobia while gas and grocery prices stay untouched. Trump claims a ballroom ruling threatens lives while secretly building a bunker underneath. July's jobs report buries 103,000 positions and calls it stability. ICE gets body cameras with a...
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Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 6, 2026
Trump pardons a $205 million Medicare fraudster while blaming immigrants for the crime, then guts the 14th Amendment on his way out the door. Gaza's peace plan turns out to be a bunker with a getaway route. The FCC skyboxes with the company it's supposed to regulate, and SpaceX drops 13% the same...
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Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 4, 2026
Oil giants bank $93 billion while the planet burns, and Trump's spies stack up in Cuba like an invasion in slow motion. A judge unconvicts an Oath Keeper while mourning democracy in the same breath. RFK Jr. torches his own vaccine advice, and a Teacher of the Year lands in ICE custody straight…
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Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 3, 2026
Capital One blames a money laundering review for dumping Trump's accounts, two months after eating a fine for having no laundering program at all. Jeanine Pirro drops charges against an innocent Olympian and gets called weak for it. The Pentagon crowdsources a war exit strategy over email, and...
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Nightly News Roundup for July 30, 2026
Cooper plans two more weeks of war, Trump threatens to withdraw his own AG pick out of spite, and the State Department can't locate Africa on a map it made itself. Kash Patel loses to a guy who called him a chud, four horses get gilded for $5 million, and a wiped phone becomes a federal case.…
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Nightly News Roundup for July 27, 2026
Thune threatens Christmas in session, Trump campaigns for himself in Michigan, and a food festival becomes shooting 271. Hegseth watches generals fall like it's Westeros, Trump asks the Supreme Court to shrink the electorate, fake ICE agents kidnap a driver in Oregon, and the Pentagon reshuffles...
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Nightly News Roundup for July 24, 2026
Four dead soldiers vanish from the Pentagon's spreadsheet, then reappear once reporters ask questions. Iran hits back after twelve nights of strikes, the EU fines Google and gets tariff threats for it, and a court filing catches the White House admitting it torched clean energy grants over an...
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Nightly News Roundup for July 23, 2026
Trump says Iran hasn't suffered enough on night twelve of bombing, while a Florida prophet insists God opened a wifi portal over Mar-a-Lago instead. Musk admits he got "carried away" gutting foreign aid, a judge calls DOJ's subpoenas sloppy, and the White House taxes 80 countries under a dead…
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Nightly News Roundup for July 22, 2026
Trump sues the BBC and a judge hands him a subpoena boomerang, cracking open 400 companies and one very nervous blind trust. Hegseth warns Congress about Middle Eastern nukes on Tuesday, then Wednesday hands Saudi Arabia the enrichment keys anyway. 105.8 million Americans sit out the labor force,...
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Nightly News Roundup for July 20, 2026
Iran calls America ISIS while trading airstrikes for the ninth straight day, and the Houthis pile on with a Red Sea blockade for good measure. Taylor Farms lettuce gives thousands of Americans explosive diarrhea, then buys its way to a magic false positive. The FBI stops investigating ICE…
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Nightly News Roundup for July 17, 2026
A president delivers a Gettysburg Address for people who failed history, complete with an election that's rigged, secure, and rigged again depending on who's counting. A 278,000-voter fraud claim gets pulled from somewhere the sun doesn't reach. Fox News airs a speech it once paid three-quarters…
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Nightly News Roundup for July 16, 2026
A press secretary returns from leave to defend a nursery and a crime scene in the same breath. An island gets bombed for the sixth straight night while a rental-car economy idles at the pump. An attorney general nominee finds time for justice only after his job's on the line. A vice president's…
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Nightly News Roundup for July 15, 2026
An attorney general nominee turned six million pages into a percentage point and called it a win. A Pentagon overhaul finds its real target: middle-aged testosterone. A president joins the inflation hall of shame two presidents warned him about. A House majority protects a weapons pipeline nobody...
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Nightly News Roundup for July 14, 2026
A president who called himself a non-payer finally paid up. His former lawyer runs the DOJ like an enemies list with a seating chart. A senator's sister inherited a seat and a decade of grudges by Tuesday morning. The Reflecting Pool got drained and found two suspiciously symmetrical scars. A...
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Nightly News Roundup for July 13, 2026
We're baaaacccckkkkk A federal agent killed a man in Biddeford while his daughter watched in Bluey pajamas. Trump blockaded a strait he called open and sent Iran the bill anyway. Thursday brings a mystery speech nobody ordered. A grieving sister inherited a Senate seat and a decade of insults. A...
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Nightly News Roundup for June 17, 2026
Trump swatted a fly and it was the smartest thing on stage. Vance took the blame before the ink dried. Electric bills hit survival territory and nobody's coming to help. The Fed chair tanked the Dow on day one. A baby died over diapers and the cop went on paid leave. Some nights the news writes…
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Nightly News Roundup for June 16, 2026
Kash Patel blew an active terror investigation for an X post. The Trump administration's answer to medical debt is more debt. Congress gave veterans a raise by cutting their benefits and named it accordingly. The DOJ's civil rights division sued a city for compensating victims of racism. The...
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Nightly News Roundup for June 15, 2026
Trump closed an Iran deal worth $324 billion for a shipping lane Iran already owned. The Reflecting Pool turned green four days after a $14.2 million fix. RFK Jr. broke the vaccine committee and now needs it back before flu season. Rural voters are figuring out the math. A B-52 went down at...
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Nightly News Roundup for June 12, 2026
The Situation Room got a new agenda: how do you spin a birthday card where the President signed his name across a cartoon woman's crotch as a gift to a child rapist. The Justice Department memo was supposed to close the Epstein file. Instead it blew the lid off a septic tank. JD Vance believes in…
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Nightly News Roundup for June 11, 2026
Trump called off an airstrike he announced that morning and declared victory anyway. SpaceX went public at $1.77 trillion and Elon Musk may be a trillionaire by Friday. A housing official briefly ran national intelligence before Congress intervened. The Post Office wants your voter rolls or it's...
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Nightly News Roundup for June 10, 2026
A millennial landlord got handed America's intelligence apparatus with orders to gut it before anyone qualified shows up. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is nearly the emptiest it's been since Reagan, because the war that's draining it also closed the oil corridor it was built to protect. Trump...
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Nightly News Roundup for June 9, 2026
Donald Trump bombed Iran over a helicopter he called "not a big deal," which puts the word "proportional" in serious need of a lawyer. The Trump family rang the Nasdaq bell, pocketed $500 million, and watched the stock crater to 68 cents — the White House says there's no conflict of interest…
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Nightly News Roundup for June 8, 2026
The Middle East paused its war because Donald Trump asked nicely, which is either diplomacy or a hostage situation depending on your timezone. The Pentagon flagged its closest ally as a critical spy threat while simultaneously handing a convicted Capitol rioter the keys to classified...
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Nightly News Roundup for May 29, 2026
A federal judge told Donald Trump that Congress named the Kennedy Center after an assassinated president, not a real estate developer, and it intends to keep it that way. Trump declared victory over Iran; Iran called it fiction; the Strait of Hormuz remains the world’s most expensive group chat....
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Nightly News Roundup for May 28, 2026
The U.S. and Iran are negotiating a cease-fire memorandum that Donald Trump hasn't approved, Iran hasn't confirmed, and diplomats admit may not share a common draft. Iran's supreme leader is directing nuclear negotiations by courier from a bunker. Two juries found Trump sexually abused E. Jean...
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Nightly News Roundup for May 27, 2026
Donald Trump's Board of Peace raised $17 billion in pledges and deposited zero in its official account — the rest sits in a JPMorgan hole that answers to nobody. Trump threatened to blow up Oman, a U.S. ally brokering Iran talks, and the State Department posted it like a press release. Markwayne...
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Nightly News Roundup for May 26, 2026
Donald Trump declared the Iran ceasefire going "nicely" — hours before US bombs fell on southern Iran. ICE pepper sprayed a sitting senator outside a detention center where migrants are starving. The New York Times counted Cabinet sentences: one in six is flattery. Trump visited Walter Reed for…
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Nightly News Roundup for May 21, 2026
Two officers who bled on January 6th sued to block their attackers from a $1.8 billion taxpayer payout. Donald Trump tried to attach a personal ballroom fund to the same bill. Mitch McConnell called it "utterly stupid and morally wrong." Iran spent the ceasefire rebuilding everything the U.S....
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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…
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Nightly News Roundup for May 19, 2026
The reason confidence artists are rarely prosecuted for their crimes is that their victims are often too embarrassed to admit they’ve been conned.
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Nightly News Roundup for May 18, 2026
Donald Trump went to Beijing and came home empty — no trade deals, no Iran progress, just a Taiwan lecture from Xi Jinping. His acting attorney general, formerly Trump's personal defense lawyer, unveiled a $1.7 billion taxpayer slush fund for presidential allies. Gulf royals talked Trump off a...
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Nightly News Roundup for May 12, 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...
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Nightly News Roundup for May 7, 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...
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Nightly News Roundup for May 6, 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...
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Nightly News Roundup for May 5, 2026
Marco Rubio's stated strategic objective in the Strait of Hormuz is to recreate conditions that existed before America destroyed them — full stop — while Big Oil banks billions monthly, Iran hits the UAE twice in 48 hours, 20,000 sailors remain stranded, and Pete Hegseth insists the ceasefire...
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Nightly News Roundup for May 4, 2026
Donald Trump threatened to erase Iranian civilization over Project Freedom speedboat harassment in the Strait of Hormuz, where the US military sank six Iranian vessels and Iran simultaneously claims its missiles struck a US warship, with both governments insisting the other side is lying while…
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Nightly News Roundup for May 1, 2026
Donald Trump mailed Congress a form letter declaring the Iran war terminated — the same afternoon he threatened to bomb Tehran into gravel — skirting a War Powers Act deadline that required congressional approval he never sought; the national debt crossed 100 percent of GDP for the first time…
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Nightly News Roundup for Apr. 30, 2026
A courthouse vault has held Jeffrey Epstein's possible suicide note for seven years while the DOJ published his files and admitted it's never seen the thing — found, for the record, by convicted quadruple murderer Nicholas Tartaglione tucked inside a graphic novel; Donald Trump pulled Fox News...
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Nightly News Roundup for Apr. 29, 2026
Donald Trump honored the first lunar crew since Nixon with four minutes before pivoting to two wars he couldn't keep straight by name; James Comey surrendered over an Instagram seashell post while the president interpreting "86" as a mob kill order controls the nuclear codes; Pete Hegseth spent…
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Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 28, 2026
King Charles III flew to Washington to remind America that checks on executive power exist, which Democrats applauded and Republicans tolerated without apparent self-awareness; Todd Blanche filed federal charges against James Comey over a beach photograph of seashells while the Justice…
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Nightly News Roundup for Apr. 27, 2026
Cole Tomas Allen allegedly brought a shotgun to the White House Correspondents' Dinner over Trump officials he accused of sexual misconduct, which the White House blamed on Democrats before anyone read his note; Donald Trump volunteered to Norah O'Donnell that he was neither a rapist nor a...
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Nightly News Roundup for Apr. 24, 2026
The Supreme Court ruled Donald Trump's tariffs illegal, so $166 billion in refunds are now flowing to the corporations that already billed you extra to cover them; Pete Hegseth told Europe to get in a boat and threatened to hand Argentina the Falkland Islands when Britain politely refused…
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Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 23, 2026
Donald Trump hired his hotel pool contractor to renovate the Lincoln Memorial while insisting he outdrew Martin Luther King Jr.; the Iran ceasefire held just long enough for Trump to issue shoot-to-kill orders and triple mine-sweeping operations in the Strait of Hormuz; House Republicans weighed...
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Nightly News Roundup for Apr. 22, 2026
Iran seized two ships while the U.S. Navy searched for a secretary; RFK Jr. reinvented arithmetic before a Senate committee and nobody stopped him; Andrew Hugg, the Army's top nuclear security officer, apparently treated wartime intelligence like bar trivia; Todd Blanche indicted the SPLC for...
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