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Simon Marks Reporting

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Ongoing news reports from Washington and elsewhere by Emmy award-winning reporter Simon Marks. Simon's coverage airs on TV and radio networks worldwide and is now also available through all major podcast services. Once called "the harbinger of daily astonishment", Simon is the President & Chief Correspondent of Feature Story News. You can watch his latest TV reporting here.

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October 23, 2026 - "American Week": Trump's top envoy calls Putin a "humanitarian" as Republican midterm losses loom

11 min

Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday drivetime programme, this week presented by Ben Kentish. In this episode: -- despite Trump fervently adhering himself to Vladimir Putin, the UK government expresses confidence that America remains on "the side of freedom".-- Hegseth besmirches the honour of fallen allied soldiers yet again.-- Trump engages in racist tirades on the campaign trail. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm on LBC, or find it here on demand afterwards.

October 9, 2026 - "American Week": Trump again threatens the midterms, and Hegseth orders a public execution

11 min

Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday drivetime programme with Tom Swarbrick. Listen live every Friday at 5.50pm, or find it here on-demand afterwards. This week:-- Trump is urged to invoke the Insurrection Act if the Democrats win the midterms-- Hegseth orders a public, firing squad military execution-- South African jurist Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize, infuriating the White House

October 2, 2026 - "American Week": Trump belatedly hits the campaign trail, and Tennessee brutally botches an execution

11 min

Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC.  Listen live at 5:50 every Friday, or find it here on demand afterwards. And also at LBC's Official YouTube page, where you can watch in full HD. This week: Trump finally gets around to campaigning in the midterm elections, and Tennessee butchers a death row inmate who survives her date with the death chamber.

September 25, 2026 - "American Week": Trump threatens to annihalate Iran, dooms Republicans in midterms, then shows Xi his White House renovations

11 min

Simon's weekly chronicle of increasingly unstable events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. This week:-- Trump threatens war crimes in his UN General Assembly speech;-- Republicans fear a midterm drubbing in 38 days' time;-- President Xi Jinping trapises to Washington, and Trump shows him all his White House renovations.

August 7, 2026 - "American Week": Trump can no longer stipulate to reality

10 min

Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for the UK's LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm, or find it on catchup here afterwards. This week:-- Trump refuses to accept the reality of his own errors in the Reflecting Pool renovation scandal-- Abdul El-Sayed becomes the new darling of the progressive left after winning the Michigan Demcoratic primary

July 31, 2026 - "American Week": Trump craters in the polls, while the Democrats tear themselves apart

11 min

Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on LBC. This week: --Trump's approval ratings crater to near-fatal levels-- The Democrats' internecine battle intensifies-- Dr Fauci pleads the Fifth-- Fresh evidence emerges of the scale of Trump's grift Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on-demand afterwards.

July 24, 2026 - "American Week": Trump welcomes Burnham to No. 10 with new tariffs

11 min

Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday night drivetime programme on LBC.  This week: -- Trump hits 80 countries with new tariffs to replace the ones the Supreme Court outlawed;-- Trump flirts with the commission of war crimes in Iran;-- no one can find $13 billion of US oil revenues from Venezuela.

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