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World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode: Sunday, November 02, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

News, Daily News

3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Selina Wang reports on the disruptions at airports due to staffing shortages, as republicans and democrats point fingers over the government shutdown; Alex Presha has the details on President Trump’s threats of military action in Nigeria, accusing the country of not doing enough to protect Christians; and Olivia Rubin with the countdown to election day as former President Obama hits the campaign trail, and President Trump’s political operation invests millions into voter turnout in those states; 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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Tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. Travel disruptions growing worse

0:35.4

at multiple airports because of the government shutdown.

0:38.4

A federal judge sets a new deadline for paying out snap benefits and President Trump threatens

0:43.0

military action in Nigeria.

0:45.3

First, the shutdown wreaking havoc at the airports, staffing shortages, forced delays and cancellations,

0:51.1

a ground stop ordered at Newark Airport.

0:53.7

As Republicans and Democrats point

0:55.4

fingers, our new polling shows who Americans are blaming for the impasse. 42 million Americans

1:00.8

still waiting for word on food assistance. Late today, a federal judge with a ruling on

1:05.5

when they should get the benefits. President Trump ordering the Pentagon to draw plans

1:09.8

for military action against Nigeria.

1:11.6

The president accusing that country of persecuting Christians.

1:15.6

Tonight, Nigeria's president denying his country as religiously intolerant and saying he'd welcome help against terrorists.

1:22.6

Plus, the U.S. strikes against alleged drug smugglers continue in the Caribbean.

1:26.6

Countdown to Election Day, the final push in several key races.

1:30.9

In New York City, the frontrunner for mayor, Zoran Mamdani, gets a boost from former President

1:35.5

Barack Obama, also campaigning hard in New Jersey in a tight race for governor.

1:40.8

Police in Britain released one of the two men arrested in the brutal stabbing attack on a train,

1:45.0

why they now say there was only one attacker.

1:48.0

Here at home, authority searching for two people they believe are connected to what's being called an intentional explosion at a Harvard University research facility.

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