World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode for October 05, 2026

World News Tonight with David Muir

Show Notes

Aaron Katersky has the latest on the newly obtained phone calls between Jane Doe and some of Cornell's fraternity members she accused of rape three weeks after the alleged assault, the recorded calls come as outrage grows on campus; Elizabeth Schulze has details on the Russian lab worker who died from a suspected case of pneumonic plague linked to a research facility in Siberia, the mystery illness triggering quarantines; Martha Raddatz reports on the new and different threat that prompted the Pentagon to move at least a dozen B-1 bombers used in the war with Iran from an air base in the U.K back to the U.S.; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.

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