Full Episode: Thursday, August 21, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Erik Menendez denied parole after California’s Parole Board finds he poses an “unreasonable risk to public safety;” Matt Gutman has breaking developments on the Menendez brothers, decades after Erik and Lyle were convicted of murdering their parents; Aaron Katersky reports on the armed officers that swarmed the Villanova University campus outside Philadelphia in response to an active shooter report, which the university says turned out to be a “cruel hoax;” Trevor Ault has details on the accident on a dairy farm in Colorado that left six workers dead; 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.
1:02.7	Tonight, breaking news as we come on the air in the West.
1:05.8	After decades in prison, a parole board decision on Eric Menendez.
1:09.5	The news just coming in, the Menendez brothers
1:11.9	behind bars for more than three decades for the shotgun murders of their parents. Tonight,
1:16.4	what we've just learned about their push for freedom, Matt Gumman with late word on
1:19.9	the case. The dramatic video just coming in, SWAT teams moving in on the campus of Villanova
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