Nightly News Roundup for Mar. 5, 2026

Tonight: 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.

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