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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.

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Episodes
  • Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 27, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 27, 2026
    28 Aug 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 Congress about Samoa, eighty-three kids die anyway, and he still runs Health and Human Services. DeSantis launders sick kids' settlement money into a weed fight. The Department of Education can't tell Churchill from a TikTok trend and accidentally calls the boss a Nazi. And Optimus Prime's voice goes quiet forever. Tape rolls.

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    6 min
  • Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 26, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 26, 2026
    27 Aug 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 threat. Trump calls Hormuz "very functioning" between rocket strikes, then vows to bomb Oman anyway. Iran levels billions in CIA infrastructure across seven countries. Trump declares war on Canada, the country he admits America doesn't need, then eats $272 billion in retaliation. And Tim Curry, in fishnets and pearls, held a door open for 51 years. Tape rolls.

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    6 min
  • Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 25, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 25, 2026
    26 Aug 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 tickets, and a metal band turns a hospital boardroom into a mosh pit for one very happy patient. Dolly gets the day off from jokes. Tape rolls.

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    5 min
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