Monday, April 20, 2026
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, the final hours of the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran and the confusion tonight. |
| 0:07.0 | Will there even be talks to make a new deal? |
| 0:09.9 | President Trump says J.D. Vance is ready to head to the negotiations, but Iran isn't committing |
| 0:16.0 | as we get new video of a dramatic confrontation at sea. |
| 0:20.2 | U.S. Marines seizing an Iranian flagship and the new |
| 0:24.4 | polling tonight. The pressure the president may be under to end the conflict. Global outrage after an |
| 0:31.1 | Israeli soldier is seen smashing a statue of Jesus. Will he be held responsible? Also breaking the cabinet secretary who just resigned |
| 0:40.5 | amid an ongoing investigation. Deadly shooting at a popular tourist spot doesn't sent running for |
| 0:46.9 | their lives as gunfire erupts at pyramids near Mexico City. The terrifying close call at Nashville's |
| 0:53.9 | airport, two jets narrowly avoided colliding, |
| 0:57.6 | plus the airplane bomb scares, sending passengers scrambling down emergency slides. Shake up at one of |
| 1:04.1 | America's biggest companies, Tim Cook, stepping down as CEO of Apple. So who is taking over? |
| 1:11.7 | FBI director Cash Patel suing over a report accusing him of drinking excessively. |
| 1:17.8 | Did his team almost have to knock down his doors because he wasn't responding? |
| 1:22.9 | Are these missing or dead scientists linked? |
| 1:26.1 | Most of them work with NASA and nuclear research. |
| 1:29.2 | Now the FBI is investigating. Our new reporting on Jeffrey Epstein's New Mexico Ranch, |
| 1:35.5 | Halley Jackson on the ground there, as victims' families come face to face with the infamous |
| 1:40.6 | site. Rodeo horse stampede chaos as horses trampled through a huge crowd. |
| 1:46.7 | What set them off? |
| 1:48.0 | A violent dust nato spinning across a baseball field, sending kids scrambling for cover. |
| 1:54.2 | And there's good news tonight, the hero principal who took a bullet while tackling a school shooter, |
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