Full Episode: Tuesday, September 2, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

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3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Pierre Thomas has details after Pres. Trump announced that 11 gang members were killed in a U.S. military strike that targeted a Venezuelan boat carrying illegal drugs bound for the U.S.; Mary Bruce reports on Pres. Trump saying he’ll send the National Guard into Chicago; Victor Oquendo has the latest on the 8-year-old boy who was airlifted to a hospital after suffering severe shark bite wounds while snorkeling off the coast of Key Largo, Florida; David Muir reports on the newest season of National Geographic's "Limitless: Live Better Now" as the series follows actor Chris Hemsworth and his mission to help keep our brains sharp and how to fight cognitive decline; 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.
0:57.0	Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
1:03.0	Tonight we have breaking news just as we come on.
1:04.9	President Trump has just revealed a deadly U.S. military strike.
1:08.8	The image is just in tonight, the U.S. targeting a boat in the Caribbean.
1:12.7	What the president says the vessel was carrying the military strike, the president says has been
1:17.3	deadly. Pierre Thomas standing by with what we've just learned. Also breaking President Trump late
1:22.2	today saying of Chicago, we're going in. The governor there responding tonight. After the Armed National Guard in Washington, D.C.,
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