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Nightly News Roundup

Nightly News Roundup

By: Jason Thompson
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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 20, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for May 20, 2026
    May 21 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.

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    5 mins
  • Nightly News Roundup for May 19, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for May 19, 2026
    May 20 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

    Nightly News Roundup for May 18, 2026
    May 19 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 bombing run with a courtesy call. A jury dismissed Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit in under two hours. Trump's own ethics filing revealed 3,600 stock trades worth up to $750 million. Mike Johnson called congressional trading an "extreme sacrifice" on a $174,000 salary. Kristi Noem secretly freed 19 prisoners without review; twelve reoffended. In Oklahoma, a teen convicted of rape received community service while his victims sat beside him in class. The bill is yours. Tape rolls.



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