Simon Marks Reporting
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.
August 28. 2026 - "American Week": CIA Director makes mystery trip to Moscow, and remembering Dolly Parton
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday drivetime programme. Listen live every Friday at 5.50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.
August 21, 2026 - "American Week": America's National Debt tops $40 trillion portending major problems ahead
August 12, 2026 - Trump confirms Air Force One deception in effort to protect him from Iranian death threats
Simon's live update for Nick Ferrari at Breakfast on the UK's LBC
August 7, 2026 - "American Week": Trump can no longer stipulate to reality
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
August 1, 2026 - US Roundup: Democratic Socialists eat into Trump's working class support
Simon's live update for Vanessa Feltz's Saturday programme on the UK's LBC.
July 31, 2026 - "American Week": Trump craters in the polls, while the Democrats tear themselves apart
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 28, 2026 - Zelensky and Netanyahu in Washington for separate meetings with Trump
Simon's live update for LBC with Aasmah Mir presenting.
July 25, 2026 - Washington's most toe-curling event of the year
Simon's weekly roundup of events in the United States for Matt Frei's Saturday morning programme on LBC.
July 24, 2026 - "American Week": Trump welcomes Burnham to No. 10 with new tariffs
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.
July 20, 2026 - Whither Britain as Burnham comes to power?
Simon's live update from London for Newzroom Afrika, South Africa's leading TV news channel.
July 17, 2026 - "American Week": Trump advances his plans to undermine midterm elections
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday night drivetime programme...this week presented by Simon.
July 13, 2026 - Remembering Lindsey Graham, 1955 - 2026
Simon's thoughts on the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. For LBC.
July 10, 2026 - "American Week": Trump tries to rig the World Cup
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC, this week via Clive Bull's programme. Listen every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.
July 9, 2026 - US strikes 90 targets across Iran after Trump calls regime "scum"
Simon's live update for Nick Ferrari at Breakfast on the UK's LBC.
July 4, 2026 - On America's 250th birthday, Trump warns communism is on the march
Simon's live update for Matt Frei's Saturday morning programme on the UK's LBC.
July 3, 2026 - "American Week": America in muted mood on its 250th birthday eve
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the 250-year-old United States for Tom Swarbrick's drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.
July 1, 2026 - US Roundup: Trump suffers big Supreme Court loss over birthright citizenship
Simon's live update with Lewis Goodall on LBC.
June 26, 2026 - "American Week": Trump takes a first crack at Burnham, while Democratic Socialists challenge their party's elite
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the USA for LBC's Friday night drivetime programme, this week presented by Ben Kentish. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on-demand afterwards.
This week:
--Trump gives Burnham a kicking while also giving Starmer a kicking;
--NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte prostrates himself before Trump again;
--left-wing Democrats romp to victory in primary elections;
--America's 250th birthday celebrations get off to a lukewarm start.
June 20, 2026 - US Roundup: Trump's deal with Iran under strain
Simon's live roundup of events in the United States for Matt Frei's Saturday morning programme on the UK's LBC.
June 19, 2026 - "American Week": Trump capitulates to Iran
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday night drivetime programme on the UK's LBC.
This week: Trump capitulates to Iran, and offers them the possibility of an eventual $300 billion payday.
June 13, 2026 - "American Week": Trump "loves the inflation", and is "thunderously booed" in New York
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday drivetime programme. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm, or find it here on-demand afterwards.
June 11, 2026 - Bill Gates tells Congress that Epstein tried to blackmail him
Simon's live update for The Claire Byrne Show on Ireland's Newstalk.
June 11, 2026 - US fires 49 Tomahawk missiles at Iran, saying it will "negotiate with bombs"
Simon's live update for Monocle Radio's "The Globalist", with Emma Nelson presenting.
June 10, 2026 - Trump launches military reprisals against Iran, risking ceasefire talks
Simon's live update for "Nick Ferrari At Breakfast" on the UK's LBC.
May 7, 2026 - US Roundup: Iran launches attacks on Israel on 100th day of conflict
Simon's live update for Nick Abbot's Sunday night / Monday morning programme on the UK's LBC.
June 5, 2026 - "American Week": Trump "bored" by Iran negotiations while his family coins it
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States (and this week, also in Albania) for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.
This week:
--Trump says Iran peace talks have "bored" him;
--Rubio claims the war is over when it isn't;
--Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner acquire an Albanian island, and spark furious protests in Tirana.
June 3, 2026 - Meltdown at CBS News amid fresh allegations of pro-Trump interference
Simon's live update for James O'Brien's morning programme on the UK's LBC. Today the roundup leads with the firing of Scott Pelley, veteran CBS News anchor and reporter, after he accused the pro-Trump management of seeking to "murder" the news magazine 60 Minutes. CBS News remains the BBC's official US news partner.
June 2, 2026 - US Roundup: Trump in retreat, except in reported conversation with Netanyahu
Simon's latest update for James O'Brien's morning programme on the UK's LBC.
May 29, 2026 - "American Week": Trump's stability questioned over Iran talks, and Jill Biden rakes over old coals
Simon's weekly chronicle of events from a deeply unserious United States. Listen live every week on Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on LBC at 5:50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.
This week:
- Trump's mad move in the Middle East;
- the scrapping of US humanitarian aid fuels the spread of Ebola;
- Jill Biden spins a yarn in her new memoir.
May 24, 2026 - Republican Senators fear Trump's Iran plan amounts to "surrender"
Simon's live update for Henry Riley's Sunday afternoon programme on the UK's LBC.
May 23, 2026 - AS IT BROKE: Suspect in White House shooting killed by Secret Service
Simon's live update for Clive Bull's overnight programme on the UK's LBC.
May 23, 2026 - AS IT BROKE: White House under security lockdown after reports of gunfire
Simon's live breaking news report for Nick Abbot's programme on LBC.
May 22, 2026 - "American Week": Republicans revolt over Trump's "slush fund"
Simon's weekly chronicle of the American story for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC.
This week:
-- Trump sets up a slush fund for his mates after a quid-pro-quo with his own Justice Department.
-- That ain't no ballroom. It's a Bond villain's bunker.
-- Remembering Barney Frank
May 20, 2026 - US indicts Raul Castro, brother of Fidel, on murder charges
Simon's live update for CNA, the pan-Asian English language TV news channel based in Singapore. With Yasmine Yonkers and Arnold Gay anchoring.
May 20, 2026 - Trump successfully purges "traitors" in Republican primaries, and reveals his "ballroom" is really a bunker
Simon's live update James O'Brien's morning programme on the UK's LBC.
May 19, 2026 - Trump reveals his ballroom will in fact be an impenetrable military bunker
Simon's live update for "Tonight with Andrew Marr" on the UK's LBC.
May 19, 2026 - Trump plans $1.776 billion fund to funnel taxpayer money to his mates over "lawfare" claims
Simon's live update for James O'Brien's morning programme on LBC. Today:
-- Trump TACOs over Iran...again
-- Trump's audacious plan to funnel taxpayer cash to his mates
-- And it's a big night in Kentucky Republican politics.
May 18, 2026 - 5 dead, including two teenage suspects, after attack on San Diego Islamic Centre
Simon's live update for Ben Kentish's late night programme on the UK's LBC.
May 18, 2026 - AS IT BROKE: Shooting at Islamic Centre of San Diego
Simon's live update for the UK's rolling news station, LBC News, with James Hanson presenting.
May 16, 2026 - Trump returns from Beijing, indicating possible shift in US support for Taiwan
Simon's live update for Matt Frei's Saturday morning programme on the UK's LBC.
