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Nightly News Roundup

Nightly News Roundup

By: Jason Thompson
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  • Nightly News Roundup for May 28, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for May 28, 2026
    May 29 2026

    The U.S. and Iran are negotiating a cease-fire memorandum that Donald Trump hasn't approved, Iran hasn't confirmed, and diplomats admit may not share a common draft. Iran's supreme leader is directing nuclear negotiations by courier from a bunker. Two juries found Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll and lied about knowing her — he owes her $88.3 million, so he sicced the Justice Department on her instead. Trump's 250th anniversary concert booked Vanilla Ice, Milli Vanilli, and C+C Music Factory — then lost them within 24 hours. Milli Vanilli said they were never even asked. Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli army to seize 70% of Gaza, up from the 53% his ceasefire already gave him, while fighting criminal charges at home. Trump wants his face on a $250 bill, which would require overturning a law Congress passed in 1866 after the last guy who tried it got caught in a sex scandal. Samuel Alito's son held a secret Treasury job while his father ruled on Treasury cases from the Supreme Court bench and never recused himself. Terry Pitchford didn't pull the trigger, but Mississippi put him on death row anyway — with a jury missing four of its five Black candidates. The Supreme Court noticed, barely. Tape rolls.



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  • Nightly News Roundup for May 27, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for May 27, 2026
    May 28 2026
    Donald Trump's Board of Peace raised $17 billion in pledges and deposited zero in its official account — the rest sits in a JPMorgan hole that answers to nobody. Trump threatened to blow up Oman, a U.S. ally brokering Iran talks, and the State Department posted it like a press release. Markwayne Mullin wants to shut down international flights at sanctuary city airports and is calling it a plan. Operation Epic Fury is cannibalizing military training — $292 million cut from Army programs, medical courses canceled, Navy recruits stranded at boot camp. Ken Paxton crushed John Cornyn in the Texas primary. His office let a child rapist walk in 30 days, no sex offender registration required. Tesla bled hexavalent chromium into a Texas waterway and questioned the methodology of the people who found it. The Kennedy Center filed court papers arguing it cannot exist without Trump's name on the building. Tape rolls.

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  • Nightly News Roundup for May 26, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for May 26, 2026
    May 27 2026
    Donald Trump declared the Iran ceasefire going "nicely" — hours before US bombs fell on southern Iran. ICE pepper sprayed a sitting senator outside a detention center where migrants are starving. The New York Times counted Cabinet sentences: one in six is flattery. Trump visited Walter Reed for the fourth time and declared himself PERFECT in all caps. Two million federal employees may soon sign NDAs for crimes the administration hasn't named yet. The USDA fired the bee scientists, gagged the rest, delayed their findings six months, and is now closing the 130-year-old lab keeping American food alive. Ken Paxton, impeached by his own state's legislature, is Donald Trump's pick to primary a sitting Republican senator. Tape rolls.

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