Full Episode: Tuesday, April 21, 2026

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

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3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Mary Bruce reports on Pres. Trump’s ceasefire extension with Iran just 24 hours after he said it was "highly unlikely" the deal would be extended amid uncertain peace talks; Rhiannon Ally has details on the car crash through a police headquarters in Philadelphia that the commissioner called an "absolute deliberate act;” Gio Benitez has the latest on the American Airlines passenger jet that came within 350 feet of an Air Canada plane near New York's JFK airport, marking the second close call this week; 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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0:45.3	Tonight there is breaking news right now involving the U.S. and Iran tonight. What's now happened to these talks, Vice President J.D. Vance had been ready to leave Washington today for
0:55.0	Pakistan. Tonight he hasn't left. Iran now refusing to commit. President Trump tonight, after
1:00.8	making threats, now saying he will extend the ceasefire. It all comes tonight as dramatic
1:06.0	new images show U.S. troops boarding a tanker believed to be linked to Iran.
1:11.0	Also tonight the alarming new images, tourists running for their lives, including many
1:14.8	Americans, when a gunman opens fire, taunting tourists at that ancient pyramid outside Mexico
1:20.5	city.
1:21.5	Tonight, what we have just learned, what they found on the gunmen, the images involving
1:25.9	Columbine.
1:27.1	In Philadelphia tonight, a driver smashing
1:29.0	through the front doors of police headquarters. Multiple people in the lobby hit. Tonight at JFK
1:34.3	Airport news of yet another alarming close call to passenger planes. You will hear air traffic
1:39.8	control tonight telling one plane you're in the flight path of the other.
1:44.7	What happens next?
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