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World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode: Wednesday, January 7, 2026

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Alex Perez reports on an ICE agent fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis, sparking anger and protests; Martha Raddatz has the latest on the U.S. seizing a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic and a second tanker in the Caribbean; Rachel Scott has details on the White House doubling down on plans to acquire Greenland; David Muir reports on the families impacted by the California wildfires one year later; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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. Now on Disney Plus every night.

0:15.8

Tonight breaking news, an ice agent shoots and kills a woman. The chilling image is coming in now.

0:21.6

Video on social media showing a woman partially blocking a street in her SUV being shot

0:26.6

and killed during an immigration-related operation.

0:29.6

An ice agent firing multiple times as she tries to drive away.

0:33.6

The alarming video right here tonight, the chaos that unfolded, and what Homeland Security is now claiming tonight, we're live on the scene.

0:41.4

Also tonight, the U.S. seizing two oil tankers just hours apart.

0:45.4

A Russian flag tanker among them, and tonight the new demand from the Kremlin now.

0:50.3

And tonight with the Trump administration is now saying about the Venezuelan oil now in its possession.

0:56.1

Martha Radd standing by with new reporting.

0:58.7

The firestorm over Greenland growing tonight, the White House declaring Greenland should be part of the U.S.

1:04.3

Tonight, even Republicans on the Hill now pushing back.

1:07.4

One calling this amateur hour saying this is absurd.

1:12.6

Rachel Scott, live at the White House. Rob Reiner's son, Nick Reiner in court, and the major shake-up in court just moments before his arraignment

1:18.6

on murder charges in the deaths of his parents. The scare on the runway, the passenger jet landing,

1:24.1

several tires blowing out. The terrifying landing what passengers were forced to do.

1:29.3

One year ago tonight, Los Angeles was burning.

1:32.3

Tonight, our promise to go back and what we discovered on the very street where we reported from one year ago.

1:39.3

It is extraordinary and you'll see it right here.

1:42.3

Tonight, the former college football star and NFL

1:45.0

player in critical condition at this hour, badly burned in a fire and what we've learned. The food

1:51.1

pyramid in this country has now changed tonight what health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now

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