Nightly News Roundup

By Jason Thompson

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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Nightly News Roundup episodes:

August 11, 2026 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 fraud. Fifty-nine ICE agents made a very bad list. Tape rolls.
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August 08, 2026 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 self-serve delete button. And eleven of Trump's lawyers rack up disbarments, guilty pleas, and $148 million in damages. Tape rolls.
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August 07, 2026 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 day its space junk drops on the moon. Tape rolls.

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August 05, 2026 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 off the tarmac. Tape rolls.
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August 04, 2026 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 Canada burns while Trump teases a punishment like a season finale. Tape rolls.
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July 31, 2026 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. Tape rolls.
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July 28, 2026 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 its dead. Tape rolls.
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July 25, 2026 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 election. Hegseth hands out testosterone to some troops and takes it as a reason to ban others. LeBron trades Bel-Air for Philly, and the Pink Panther loses its saxophone. Tape rolls.
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7min
July 24, 2026 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 1974 law. Measles hits a 35-year high, and Tesla and Alphabet drag the Nasdaq down together. Tape rolls.
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July 23, 2026 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, more than Covid, more than 2008. An Epstein-linked model scout dies days before questioning. The House buys the Pentagon $1.15 trillion and slips a mail-ballot ban in the bag. Don Jr.'s investment firm somehow keeps guessing federal contracts correctly. And the Tate brothers finally meet an administration that won't catch them. Tape rolls.
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How many episodes does Nightly News Roundup have?

The podcast currently has 309 episodes available.