Full Episode: Friday, August 22, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

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3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Morgan Norwood reports on the horrific accident in Upstate New York after a tour bus collided with a semi-truck, leaving at least four people dead and dozens more injured; Aaron Katersky has details on Deputy AG Todd Blanche releasing audio and transcripts of his two-day interview with Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, who insisted “there is no list;” just one day after Erik Menendez lost his bid for freedom, Matt Gutman has the latest on his brother Lyle Menendez’s appeal to the parole board to be released from prison 36 years after murdering their parents; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm John Quignores. Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old soldier,
0:05.0	vanishes while on duty at an army base in Texas.
0:09.0	Her family demands answers.
0:12.0	How can she go missing on a military base?
0:14.0	That's too ridiculous.
0:16.0	The search goes on for months.
0:19.0	Where is Vanessa? And a dark story. Search goes on for months.
0:25.6	And a dark story starts to unfold.
0:29.6	She told her family that she was being sexually harassed and wasn't reporting it out of fear of retribution and retaliation.
0:34.6	What investigators finally uncover is horrifying.
0:40.0	Find out how one soldier, a beloved sister and daughter, ignited a movement and sparked
0:46.5	a reckoning in the U.S. military.
0:50.0	Listen to Vanished.
0:51.7	What happened to Vanessa?
0:53.6	A new series from ABC Audio in 2020. Listen now Vanished. What happened to Vanessa? A new series from ABC Audio in 2020.
0:57.1	Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
1:02.5	Breaking news as we come on the air.
1:04.7	The deadly tour bus crash in upstate New York,
1:07.4	authorities reporting multiple fatalities.
1:09.4	And the Justice Department releasing its interview
1:11.6	with Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator, Glenn Maxwell.
1:15.0	First, the horrific images coming in, multiple people killed after a packed tour bus on its way
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