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World News Tonight with David Muir

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3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Jay O'Brien reports on survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein coming together for the first time on Capitol Hill, sharing their stories and demanding all files related to Epstein be released; Ian Pannell has the latest on the derailment of Portugal’s historic electric street car in Lisbon that killed at least 15 people and injured another 18; amid turmoil at the CDC over nationwide vaccine policies, Victor Oquendo has details on Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announcing that the Sunshine State is moving to "end all vaccine mandates," calling any requirements “immoral;” 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,
0:58.1	wherever you get your podcasts. Tonight, breaking news, Jeffrey Epstein survivors in front of the
1:05.8	cameras and what they're demanding. They want the Epstein files released, many talking for the first
1:10.8	time, and what they describe, many talking for the first time,
1:11.5	and what they describe, what they say happened to them. And their message tonight for President
1:15.7	Trump, who at the White House today called this a hoax. And tonight what many of the victims
1:20.6	told our Lindsay Davis about the Department of Justice talking with Galane Maxwell and then
1:25.6	moving her from that federal prison to a more favorable facility.
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