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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. Hosted on Acast. See ... more
FAQs about Nightly News Roundup:How many episodes does Nightly News Roundup have?The podcast currently has 309 episodes available.
March 11, 2026Nightly News Roundup for Mar. 10, 2026Tonight: Donald Trump launched a war via Truth Social and called it a "short-term excursion" while his own Pentagon declared it had "Only Just Begun to Fight," Pete Hegseth's department spent $98,000 on a grand piano and $6.9 million on lobster tail during the same month he called fat generals unacceptable, a Trump-appointed judge found ICE formally adopted racial profiling as policy and wrote 111 pages explaining why that's a problem, Kash Patel purged 300 counterterrorism agents and ISIS promptly reminded New York City why that matters, Kristi Noem got fired for a $222 million contract nobody approved and Corey Lewandowski is next in line to deny everything, and Eric and Don Jr. are invested in drone companies holding Defense Department contracts in a war where drones are deciding outcomes. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more5minPlay
March 09, 2026Nightly News Roundup for Mar. 9, 2026Tonight: Donald Trump described an active war on Iran as a "short-term excursion" while claiming veto power over Tehran's next supreme leader, Lindsey Graham threatened Saudi Arabia for refusing to fight the war he lobbied Trump to start from a golf course, the White House spiked a joint FBI-DHS-NCTC terrorism bulletin warning of Iranian proxy attacks on U.S. soil because the writing needed work, Trump held the legislative calendar hostage to a voter suppression bill stuffed with trans sports bans, Mehmet Oz declared 23 million insured Americans too many and set his target at 19 million, Claudia Sheinbaum reminded Trump's counter-cartel summit that American guns arm 75% of the cartels Trump wants to eradicate, and ICE is tracking protesters in real time using commercially purchased data after the Senate killed the one bill that would have required a warrant to do it. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more7minPlay
March 07, 2026Nightly News Roundup for Mar. 6, 2026Tonight: Russia handed Iran the GPS coordinates of American troops while Pete Hegseth called Moscow "not really a factor," the U.S. military acknowledged it likely killed 160 people — including scores of schoolgirls — in a strike the Pentagon described as "probably ours," the economy shed 92,000 jobs while December's reported gains quietly became losses and Scott Bessent changed tariff policy mid-week for sport, the Justice Department "discovered" 15 FBI files it previously swore didn't exist detailing a woman's allegations that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her at 13, Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski both got fired while the pilot Lewandowski fired over a missing blanket got reinstated, Kuwait ran out of oil storage because the Strait of Hormuz is a war zone and Doug Burgum described the administration's response as "a series of ideas," and Donald Trump announced a 100,000-seat stadium beside the White House for a UFC fight on his birthday while the Rose Garden remains pavement. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more6minPlay
March 06, 2026Nightly News Roundup for Mar. 5, 2026Tonight: Donald Trump fires Kristi Noem — who oversaw the shooting deaths of two American citizens, conducted a public affair with her married senior adviser, and administered polygraph tests to staffers she didn't trust — and rewards her with a made-up diplomatic title before nominating the only sitting senator without a bachelor's degree to run the fourth-largest federal agency while the country is four days into an unauthorized war, Congress votes 219-212 to let that war continue without authorization or stated objectives while Mike Johnson describes congressional oversight as the reckless option, Trump announces he expects to personally select Iran's next supreme leader and cites Venezuela as his proof of concept, 357 members of Congress vote to permanently seal their own sexual misconduct files eleven minutes after a sexual assault survivor forced the vote while a colleague whose staffer died by suicide welcomes the Ethics investigation, gas prices spike 27 cents in a week and the president who won on kitchen-table economics tells Americans "if they rise, they rise," and Mississippi exempts college athletes from state income tax while the nurses and teachers who actually live there keep paying theirs. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more6minPlay
March 05, 2026Nightly News Roundup for Mar. 4, 2026Tonight: Mike Johnson stands before reporters and announces the United States is not at war with Iran four days after the president named the operation, promised American casualties, and the Defense Secretary used the word "war" on camera twice before lunch, Pete Hegseth screens periscope footage of a torpedo splitting a ship carrying 180 people and describes the 148 deaths as a "quiet death" because that is the man running the Pentagon, the Justice Department releases 2.7 million Epstein documents and quietly pulls the 47,635 pages involving the sitting president for "further review" on a deadline that keeps sliding, Republicans subpoena their own attorney general for hiding files their own president's law required her to release and Pam Bondi responds by offering to brief a few of them at a time in a room with no cameras, the United States bombs Latin America for the 44th time and marks the occasion with a Pentagon hype video and no congressional authorization, Penn Wharton puts the Iran war tab at $115 billion and climbing toward $275 billion for a conflict the president describes as lasting "a little while," and Thomas Fugate — 23 years old, former grocery clerk, one year removed from college — runs domestic terrorism prevention at the Department of Homeland Security while the country is four days into a war that everyone but the Speaker is willing to name. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more6minPlay
March 04, 2026Nightly News Roundup for Mar. 3, 2026Tonight: Donald Trump kills Iran's supreme leader and its entire replacement bench in the same strike package and explains from the Oval Office that the next guy might be worse, Kash Patel fires America's Iran intelligence unit four days before America goes to war with Iran because personal loyalty outranks national security and always will, Kristi Noem sits before the Senate for four hours and declines to apologize for anything including the dog, Marco Rubio tells Congress Israel's plans set the clock and Trump tells reporters he set the clock and both men work for the same government, Alex Jones becomes the most intellectually consistent voice in American foreign policy commentary and no one knows what to do with that, the VA eliminates 14,400 medical positions at hospitals that were already short-staffed and assures veterans the math is fine, and United States military commanders invoke the Book of Revelation to explain a live war to active-duty troops because Pete Hegseth has been running the Pentagon since January. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more6minPlay
March 03, 2026Nightly News Roundup for Mar. 2, 2026Tonight: Donald Trump promises the big wave is coming for a nuclear program he already claimed to have destroyed, JD Vance discovers that opinions have consequences and silence is a full-time job, Pete Hegseth stands at the Pentagon podium and explains that America didn’t start the war America started while somehow not mentioning the three American jets Kuwait just shot out of the sky, six kids are dead and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs tells the country to pencil in more, Bill Clinton spends six hours explaining a painting he’s never seen of himself in a dress hanging in a pedophile’s apartment, Lindsey Graham calls Cuba and announces its days are numbered while the Middle East is already on fire, a federal court tells the Trump administration it has 90 days to return tariff money it was never allowed to collect and approximately zero days to stall, and somewhere in all of this, Barron Trump has bone spurs. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more6minPlay
February 21, 2026Nightly News Roundup for Feb. 20, 2026Tonight: The Supreme Court rules Trump's tariffs illegal and he announces more tariffs, calls his own appointees traitors, and promises to "find out" what evidence he doesn't have, three hundred billion dollars in illegal charges hits American consumers who are now told to lawyer up and wait five years, Trump threatens to bomb a nuclear program he already claims to have destroyed while two carrier groups idle offshore and nobody mentions Iraq, Jeffrey Epstein's files stay buried while Pete Hegseth posts alien emojis, GDP limps to 1.4% and the president blames everyone except the man in the mirror, the Labor Secretary is under investigation for strip clubs and a bodyguard while her husband gets trespassed from her own building, and the U.S. Air Force is out here doing its job with quiet professionalism while the Commander-in-Chief threatens the judiciary. Also, America plays Canada for hockey gold Sunday morning and it is never too early. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more6minPlay
February 20, 2026Nightly News Roundup for Feb. 18 & 19, 2026Tonight: A British prince gets arrested on his 66th birthday while his brother issues a statement and his sister tours a prison voluntarily, the president invokes the Defense Production Act to save a cancer-linked weedkiller from litigation while his own health secretary quietly dissolves into irrelevance, the Justice Department hangs the president's portrait on its own building and apparently sees nothing wrong with that, Trump tells a roomful of kings he might bomb Iran in ten days or possibly not while oil spikes 7% and the hedge funds start popping bottles, Palantir pays zero federal taxes on $1.5 billion in profits while billing the government for the surveillance apparatus your money built, a Texas Railroad Commission candidate refines his deportation policy down to four specific indigenous women and cannot identify a destination country for people who were here before countries existed, and Hilary Knight scored with 124 seconds left in her final Olympics because some people simply will not go quietly. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more12minPlay
February 18, 2026Nightly News Roundup for Feb. 17, 2026Tonight: DHS's chief spokesliar bolts before the subpoenas clear customs, Epstein's New Mexico ranch transfers from convicted pedophile to MAGA tax cheat without missing a beat, the FCC weaponizes airtime rules to gag a comedy show while the First Amendment files for disability, Iran threatens to sink American carriers as Jared Kushner negotiates the apocalypse over uranium, an 18-year-old drives a tactical arsenal to the Capitol steps and gets politely arrested, federal workers guard the president for free because ICE refuses to wear cameras, and Jesse Jackson, the kid arrested for reading while Black, finally put the book down. Democracy's gargling mouthwash. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more6minPlay
FAQs about Nightly News Roundup:How many episodes does Nightly News Roundup have?The podcast currently has 309 episodes available.