Full Episode: Monday, April 13, 2026

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Mary Bruce reports on the backlash building after Pres. Trump posted a picture on his social media platform that appeared to depict him as Jesus, amid his feud with Pope Leo; Ian Pannell has the latest on the U.S. Navy imposing a blockade of all Iranian ports to cut off its oil income in an effort to try to force Iran to make concessions after critical peace talks collapsed; Rhiannon Ally has details on the 16-year-old stepbrother of Anna Kepner, the 18-year-old whose body was found on a cruise ship under a bed in her cabin, being charged as an adult in her death as federal prosecutors say he murdered and sexually assaulted her; 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	9-1-1, where is the emergency?
0:02.7	It's the middle of the night in a small town on the Jersey shore.
0:06.7	Someone reports an abandoned car on a bridge.
0:09.9	A search gets underway for the missing driver, 19-year-old Sarah Stern.
0:14.9	Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide?
0:17.6	At this point, nobody knows.
0:19.6	Old friendships, buried cash, and a sinister plot that was once pitched as a movie, plays out in real life.
0:29.0	I'm Jiu Chang from 2020 and ABC Audio. Listen now to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:40.0	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.
0:53.0	Now on Disney Plus every night.
0:55.8	Tonight breaking news, President Trump lashing out at Pope Leo, and tonight the image
1:00.5	the president posted, appearing to depict Trump as Jesus.
1:04.9	The image drawing outrage from many of his own supporters, some calling it blasphemy.
1:09.4	President Trump tonight says he did post it, and what the
1:12.3	president says he sees in that image. Just in tonight the stunning fall, well-known Democrat
1:17.6	Congressman Eric Swalwell, near the top of the race for California governor, pulling out of the
1:22.9	race and just moments ago revealing he is now resigning from Congress, multiple women accusing him
1:28.7	of sexual misconduct and what he's now saying tonight. Also breaking tonight the war in Iran,
1:34.1	the peace talks failing. Tonight, President Trump ordering a naval blockade of Iranian ports.
1:39.3	That blockade now underway tonight. President Trump's new warning and Iran's warning tonight about what could
1:45.5	happen to gas prices in the U.S. and what the president said about these high gas prices that they
1:51.0	could last through the midterm elections. The new and disturbing turn tonight involving the
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