Wednesday, May 20, 2026
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, the landmark indictment against Raul Castro, the U.S. Department of Justice, |
| 0:06.7 | charging the former leader of Cuba with murder, decades after the deadly shootdown of two civilian planes. |
| 0:13.4 | The question now, will the U.S. go into Cuba to arrest him? |
| 0:17.2 | The indictment against the 94-year-old brother of Fidel Castro, a stunning escalation |
| 0:22.7 | in the Trump administration's pressure campaign on Cuba. Does this mean military action is to come? |
| 0:29.3 | And is there enough evidence to convict him? I asked the man who brought the charges if he thinks |
| 0:34.2 | Castro will ever step foot in a U.S. courtroom. Tens of thousands under |
| 0:38.7 | evacuation orders as wildfires spread in Southern California, the smoke NATO spitting up a |
| 0:45.3 | tower of ash, and did this shipwrecked sailor spark a massive brushfire when he shot a flare, |
| 0:51.4 | plus storms slamming the East Coast flash floods, stranding drivers in Atlanta. |
| 0:57.2 | The fireball in lower Manhattan, a car exploding, sending people running near Wall Street. |
| 1:02.9 | What's set off this blast? |
| 1:04.6 | Campus intruder, the search for this man after he allegedly tried to assault a person in their Harvard dorm room and then was |
| 1:12.3 | spotted inside a dorm building at nearby MIT. The push to leave quarantine an American |
| 1:18.6 | furious over being forced to quarantine for the haunt of virus saying it's like a prison, what he |
| 1:24.9 | told our reporter. Singhole on the runway, the scare at one of the |
| 1:29.3 | nation's busiest airports, forcing a runway at LaGuardia to shut down. Los Angeles |
| 1:35.0 | burglary bus, police cracking down on high-tech thefts, arresting more than half a dozen people, |
| 1:41.3 | how they're using Wi-Fi jammers to break into homes. |
| 1:44.8 | The dramatic video of a fire truck losing control, rolling over, and crashing into a business. |
| 1:51.2 | And there's good news tonight, the graduating seniors getting the surprise of a lifetime from their greatest |
| 1:57.7 | supporters who serve our country. Nightly News starts right now. |
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