Full Episode: Wednesday, September 10, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

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3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

31-year-old conservative political activist, husband and father Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an outdoor event at Utah Valley University, Matt Gutman has the latest on what is being called a “political assassination”, Pierre Thomas reports on the new details in the investigation, Jon Karl on what President Trump told him in the wake of the attack and Mary Bruce on the growing tributes and calls to end political violence; Trevor Ault reports on students critically injured at a high school outside of Denver, Colorado after a police say a suspect believed to be a student opened fire; Lama Hasan live at Buckingham Palace as King Charles III and Prince Harry met for a private tea, their first known in-person meeting in over a year; 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.
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1:04.0	Tonight, breaking news as we come on the air, the horror on an American campus.
1:08.1	Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed during a campus event.
1:12.6	The horrific images coming in, Kirk just 31, a husband and father, killed in front of a crowd
1:18.1	at Utah Valley University. The school saying the gunman fired a single shot. The panicked crowd
1:23.9	running from the scene. The difficult and chilling images tonight showing Kirk being carried to an SUV rushed to the hospital.
1:30.3	Before the event, the founder of Turning Point USA throwing hats to the crowd.
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