Full Episode: Sunday, October 4, 2026
World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode: Sunday, October 4, 2026

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 202624 min
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  • Politics

Olivia Rubin has the latest on the developments in the gang rape allegations rocking Cornell University as the school's president speaks out in a video address vowing a transparent investigation; Morgan Norwood reports on the urgent search for six people after a medical aircraft vanished over the waters off Nantucket; Tom Soufi Burridge has the chilling new details on the attack on a "Fly Dubai" flight to Israel, with sources telling ABC News that the alleged co-pilot was planning to crash the plane into Tel Aviv; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir. <...

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Tonight, Cornell's president speaks out about the alleged gang rape at a frat house promising a

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Most watched, most trusted, now on Disney Plus every night. Tonight, Cornell's president speaks out about the alleged gang rape at a frat house promising a a transparent investigation and calling out party culture on campus. Tonight, what we're learning about the school's original investigation and how the university punished the seven

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