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Nightly News Roundup

Nightly News Roundup

著者： Jason Thompson
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概要

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 for Apr. 16, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for Apr. 16, 2026
    2026/04/17
    Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a 10-day ceasefire — emphasis on ten days — while Trump claimed the diplomatic credit like a man who found someone else's wallet; Trump defunded Catholic Charities' migrant shelter program the same week he picked a public fight with Pope Leo XIV, who called unnamed world leaders tyrants manipulating religion for power; Pete Hegseth delivered Jules Winnfield's pre-execution Pulp Fiction monologue as official Pentagon prayer, and every person in that room said amen; the administration buried the death of IRS Direct File — 98% satisfaction, $160 saved per filer — in a quiet Treasury report, handing the money back to TurboTax; Trump nominated the genuinely qualified Dr. Erica Schwartz to lead the gutted CDC, where she will report to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; ICE acting director Todd Lyons confirmed 44 detainee deaths since March, a record, then told Congress there is no policy to reduce them — ICE also quietly stopped reporting deaths promptly; and John Eastman lost his California law license for the fake elector scheme, joining Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesebro, and Jeff Clark in the disbarred-and-still-free club. Tape rolls.

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  • Nightly News Roundup for Apr. 15, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for Apr. 15, 2026
    2026/04/16

    The White House denied requesting a ceasefire it simultaneously confirmed negotiating while Donald Trump declared he'd permanently opened the Strait of Hormuz and predicted Xi Jinping would hug him; Representative Yassamin Ansari filed six impeachment articles against Pete Hegseth — including a school bombing that killed 160 children — while the Pentagon said nothing and the children stayed dead; the Supreme Court handed DOGE your Social Security records without explanation and the Fourth Circuit called itself "inferior" and complied; Trump demanded clean renewal of warrantless surveillance he once called tyranny, with the CIA's best argument being a foiled Taylor Swift concert attack; Katie Miller declared falling teen birth rates a national emergency and called reproduction "our biological destiny" — a White House official's wife, posting publicly about teenage girls' bodies; the Justice Department, now run by Jeanine Pirro, asked a court to erase the seditious conspiracy convictions of men who stormed the Capitol, convictions Trump already pardoned but now wants scrubbed from the historical record; a federal jury found Live Nation and Ticketmaster guilty of criminal monopoly and fined them $280 million with no structural remedy — you will keep paying the fees; JD Vance lost Iran negotiations while Trump watched UFC, watched Orbán lose Hungary, then flew home to warn his own Pope about theology; a federal judge ruled the DOJ's criminal probe of the Fed exists solely to pressure Jerome Powell into resigning, and Trump called Powell bad at his job on Fox Business anyway; and Mississippi — dead last in health care, 49th in economy — cannot get whiskey to its bars because software ate the conveyor belt and the Senate killed the fix without comment. Tape rolls.



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  • Nightly News Roundup for Apr. 14, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for Apr. 14, 2026
    2026/04/15
    Pam Bondi ghosted a bipartisan Epstein subpoena after getting fired while Justice said her own subpoena "no longer applies" — Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro went to prison for this exact move; Iran threatened every Gulf port then offered a Strait of Hormuz pause as a peace gesture, using the same chokepoint as sword and olive branch with one week left on the ceasefire; oil cracked $100 a barrel, the IMF warned of a fifth global recession since 1980, and Trump issued conflicting statements about why his warships are blockading Iranian ports while finance ministers gathered in Washington to price out the damage; Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger stripped Confederate tax exemptions and United Daughters of the Confederacy president Julie Hardaway called it discrimination — their state-gifted marble headquarters may revert to Virginia; Nebraska burned a million acres in March, the Morrill fire killed 86-year-old Rose White before she could flee her home, and the administration dismantling NOAA has the cleanup; and Trump's DoorDash woman was a paid GOP actress recycled from previous testimonials, while the actual pitch — a 70-year-old delivering McDonald's to fund her husband's cancer treatment — was meant to be inspirational. Tape rolls.

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