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World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode: Friday, December 19, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Mary Bruce has the latest on the U.S. launching a massive military strike against dozens of ISIS targets in Syria, Pres. Trump says, in retaliation for the ambush that killed two American soldiers and their civilian interpreter; with the Department of Justice facing a legally mandated deadline, Pierre Thomas reports on the documents the department released from the investigations into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein; Whit Johnson has details on the powerful storms from coast to coast bringing treacherous conditions to millions of Americans as the holiday travel rush kicks off, and Brittany Bell has the forecast leading into Christmas; 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

David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's Most Watched newscast, now streaming same day with all the breaking news of the day on Disney Plus, most watched, most trusted.

0:12.7

Now on Disney Plus every night.

0:15.3

Tonight, the breaking news coming in right now, the U.S. launching a massive strike on ISIS targets in Syria.

0:21.6

The U.S. launching this major retaliatory military operation tonight after the deadly ambush,

0:26.6

killing two American soldiers and their U.S. interpreter.

0:29.6

The news coming in now, Mary Bruce, live at the White House.

0:32.6

Also, this storm hitting now, just as millions travel for the holiday week ahead.

0:43.6

Blinding rain, winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour or more, down power lines, setting multiple cars on fire.

0:45.3

We'll time out the storm right here.

0:47.6

Tonight, just in, the Jeffrey Epstein case, the Justice Department now releasing hundreds

0:52.6

of thousands of documents in the

0:54.4

Epstein case including never-before-seen photos so what's been released so far and

0:59.6

what we're seeing already tonight the dramatic end of the Manhunt authorities

1:03.2

say the Brown University shooter found in a storage facility dead they say he

1:08.3

also killed that MIT professor and how they linked it all together and the online tip that broke this case wide open.

1:15.6

Tonight, the plane crash that killed the NASCAR legend and its family, and tonight we now learn his wife and her final text from onboard that plane to her mother right before the crash.

1:26.6

Tonight, there are chilling images coming in from overseas showing a man armed with a knife

1:30.5

and smoke grenades attacking crowds.

1:33.7

Multiple people have been killed.

1:35.5

Authorities say the suspect then jumping to his death.

1:38.5

Tonight, the new name on the outside of the Kennedy Center.

1:41.9

Now the Trump Kennedy Center, 24 hours

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