ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Nov. 18, 2025

David Moore, 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. "Tonight, there's breaking news as we come on. We'll take you live right up to the hill. Congress passing a bill demanding the release of all. of the Jeffrey Epstein files. It'll now go to President Trump's desk.". The House vote nearly unanimous. 427-1. Republicans joining Democrats.

passing the bill demanding the Jeffrey Epstein documents. be made public. Tonight, the Senate has now agreed to quickly. clear the bill as soon as the House sends it to the Senate, meaning the measure will now head to President Trump's. desk soon after. Tonight, the image of the survivors of. Jeffrey Epstein watching from the gallery after weeks of. blocking the effort President Trump and his sudden. reversal. When it appeared Republicans were going to. vote for this, he changed course, telling Republicans to. go ahead and vote yes.

Now, it goes to the President's desk. Also tonight, through remarkable scene at the. White House, President Trump welcoming the Saudi Crown. Prince after he was isolated from the world stage for years. After the CIA during President Trump's first term, determined. that the Crown Prince was responsible for the murder of. a Washington Post journalist. Today, the President is saying things happen, calling him, quote, "a very good friend of mine.". Tonight, new images emerging of the immigration crackdown in. North Carolina, now spreading from Charlotte to Raleigh,

federal agents chasing people through a Charlotte Laundromat, and the scene when it appears people begin honking to alert. the neighborhood that agents were coming. Mast agents then confronting the women in the car, detaining them with zip ties. Outside Boston tonight on Cape Cod, the images. coming in a major rescue effort workers trapped. in a trench collapse. Tonight the emotional moment in court, the mother of an 11. year old son who was shot and killed in the backseat of the. family car on the way to school. What she said in court to the other driver, who police say.

pulled out a gun and began firing. Tonight the 18 year old discovered dead. in a carnival cruise ship. This evening in New Court filings, it appears a. step sibling might now face charges in this. case, the major turn. The US military presence off Venezuela tonight, our. reporter out on the water and what he witnessed. President Trump not ruling out strikes inside Venezuela. Tonight here after Chris Hemsworth and the journey. now with his own father diagnosed with Alzheimer's,

what Hemsworth is doing with his father to help. keep his memories alive. Tonight we take you on their road trip. And LeBron James and Steph Curry on whether they'll play in. the Olympics, fans aren't going to love the answer. Good evening. We begin tonight here with the breaking news Congress. passing the bill demanding the release of all of the Jeffrey.

Epstein files the House vote nearly unanimous 427 to. 1. Republicans joining Democrats. and tonight just moments ago we have learned the Senate has. now agreed to quickly clear the bill as soon as the House. sends it to the Senate, meaning it then goes right to. President Trump's desk. In the House today, after months of roadblocks. that rare moment in today's politics of vote that was merely. unanimous. Just one Republican voting no. And in that chamber, the moment, as the vote. unfolded, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse, watching.

from the house gallery above, marking the victory. they have long fought for. President Trump, when pressed in the last 24 hours, will he. sign the bill? He has said yes. ABC's Rachel Scott leading us off from the hill. tonight. Tonight, a nearly unanimous vote in the house. The years are 427. The nays are one an extraordinary moment. as dozens of Jeffrey Epstein's victims watched and cheered. in the gallery. Republicans and Democrats demanding the. Justice Department released the FBI files into the sex.

offender. The bill is passed and without objection the motion. to reconsider is laid on the table. It was a vote president Trump trying to prevent for. weeks assisted by House Speaker Mike Johnson who kept the house. out of session for 54 days. Effectively stalling it when it became clear Republicans were. going to defy the president Trump reverse course and told. them to vote yes. He's been very clear and he has nothing. to hide and that's why he's endorsed the vote today.

The survivors of Epstein's abuse a. moment of victory. We're ready for the next step and we're. ready to finally release the file. The Senate wasting no time pledging to pass the bill. and send it to the president's desk. That objection so ordered. At a vigil survivors getting word of the news. The Senate has passed the bill. President Trump has pledged to sign that. bill into law. But tonight even some Republican sounding. skeptical that the files will be released. Do you take the president at his word when.

he says he's going to sign this bill and do you have. confidence that these files will actually be released? Only take people's actions seriously. No longer words. The fact is the president doesn't need Congress. to release the Epstein files. He could do it on his own. Our Mary Bruce asking why wait for. Congress? Why not just do it now? I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw him out of my club many years ago. because I thought he was a sick pervert. President was asked again and again why he doesn't.

just release these files. What do you think is stopping him? He could release him. He should release him today. But the president has not ordered. the Justice Department to release the files. Instead he demanded that they investigate. Epstein's ties to Democrats. Critics say it's to get the spotlight off of himself. Epstein's victims, including Jen Alisa Jones, who. says Epstein molested her when she was just 14 and. infuriated. I beg you, President Trump, please stop making this. political. Show some class, show some real leadership.

Show that you actually care about. the people other than yourself. I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue has been. an national embarrassment. It is time to take the honest moral ground and support the. release of these files. A senior White House official. tells us tonight that the president will sign this bill. as soon as it reaches his desk, but there are still big. questions about how or when the Justice Department would. release these files and just how transparent they will be.

that is what the victims are waiting for. David Rachel Scott leading us off from the. Hill tonight. Rachel, thank you. Meantime tonight another remarkable scene unfolding. this time at the White House. President Trump welcoming the Saudi Crown Prince who has. been isolated from the world stage for years. The CIA during President Trump's first term. determined that the Crown Prince was responsible for the murder. of a Washington Post journalist. Today when the Crown Prince was pressed on this by our Mary. Bruce, the President stepped in answering first, defending.

the Crown Prince saying things happen and calling the Crown. Prince quote a very good friend of mine. Mary Bruce at the White House tonight. For a long time isolated on the global stage tonight, Saudi Crown Prince, Muhammad bin Salman fully embraced by. President Trump. Welcome to the White House with horses. on parade, a military flyover and a personal tour. Trump pulling out all the stops. And Trump doesn't give a fist bump. I grabbed that hand. I don't know where that hand's.

been. I grabbed that. Trump keeping praise on the Crown. Prince. A very proud of the job he's done when he's done. is incredible in terms of human rights and everything. else. But it was the CIA under Donald Trump who determined. in 2018 that the Crown Prince orchestrated the murder and. dismemberment of Washington Post journalist Jamal Kashoggi. President Trump bristling when I asked about that. Your royal highness, the US intelligence. concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a.

journalist. 9/11 families are furious that you are here in. the Oval Office. Why should Americans trust you? And the same to you, Mr. President. I'm with APC News, sir. APC News, sir. The president answering first, defending the Crown. Prince and instead criticizing the journalist who was murdered. You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like you. Like that gentleman that you're talking about, whether you. like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. And we can leave it at that.

You don't have to embarrass our guest. by asking him questions like that. But the Crown Prince, who rarely faces the press, defended himself. But the Crown Prince, who rarely faces the. press, defended himself. But the Crown Prince, who rarely. faces the press, defended himself. Trump has been eager to cultivate ties to society. Saudi Arabia, traveling there for the first foreign trip of. both his presidential terms. And his family has been doing big business in Saudi.

Trump tower Jeddah. Coming soon. Trump towers going up in Jeddah and. in Riyadh, a Trump plaza now in the works. In the last year alone, the Trump organization. Saudi partner pumping more than $20 million into the family. business. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner also has deep. business ties to the country. Is it appropriate, Mr. President, for your family to. be doing business in Saudi Arabia while your president is. at a conflict of interest? The president dismissing the notion.

I have nothing to do with a family business. I have left and when I have devoted 100% of. my energy, what my family does is fine. They do business all over. They've done very little with Saudi Arabia, actually. I'm sure they could do a lot. The Crown Prince coming here today with a major new financial. commitment, agreeing to invest almost a trillion dollars. in the U.S. But that's no comfort to Kishoggi's widow, Hanan. Tonight she tells me that there was no justification. for her husband's murder and she continues to call for the. Crown Prince to apologize.

David. Mary Bruce asking the questions of the White House. today, Mary, thank you. Tonight there are new images emerging. of the immigration crackdown in North Carolina, expanding from. Charlotte to Raleigh. People chased through a Charlotte. laundromat and tonight the scene when it appears two. women begin honking in their car to alert the neighborhood. that agents were coming. Massed agents then confronting the women in that car to. entertain them with zip ties. Faith the Boube from Ralei tonight. Tonight new images of their multi-day immigration. crackdown in North Carolina. Customers inside this laundromat scattering during a raid on a.

shopping center. Then running out the back door into a. wooded area. I spoke with the owner who said his customers. are afraid to come back. I think it's all just political. fear. They're really they're just trying to instill fear in. the community. In Charlotte, massed agents confronting. two US citizens in their car after they reportedly hunked. their horn to warn others about the crackdown. An agent then smashes the car window before. moving in.

He's smashing her window and detaining the women. with zip ties. Border patrol expanding the immigration. crackdown from Charlotte to Raleigh. We're in the communities in Raleigh, in. Charlotte and in North Carolina arresting legal aliens. After more than 200 arrests, these. communities are pushing back. It's sad to see my community being terrified of going to. work, of going to school. What's the message to Border Patrol. as they're in town? My message to them is honestly just we.

don't need you here. And David protestors still out in force. as for those women from that car. DHS has they arrested them after the impeded agents. and ignored warnings to stop and sources tonight telling. ABC News that the Rally raids have yielded few arrests and. that the Border Patrol agents will focus their attention. And so David. Faith a boobay back with us tonight. Faith. Thank you this evening. There appears to be a new turn in the. investigation into the death of an 18 year old girl.

Discover dead on a carnival cruise ship. New court filings now show it appears a step sibling might. now face charges. And here's Victor, a Kendo. Tonight the mystery intensifying after. a teen from Central Florida east of Orlando was found dead. aboard the carnival cruise ship Horizon 18 year old Anna. Kepner on vacation with their family earlier this month. Cruising from Miami to the Caribbean, the FBI now. investigating details around Kepner's death, including the. cause not yet released. But a new filing in an unrelated.

family court matter now says one of her step siblings could. face charges. According to a court document filed on Monday, Kepner was on the cruise ship with her father, stepmother. and step siblings. Lawyers for the stepmother sing one of her. minor children may now face criminal charges. The filing saying currently there is an. investigation being conducted by the federal Bureau of. Investigations, arising out of the sudden death of. 18-year-old Anna Kepner. Adding the stepmother has been advised through discussions.

with FBI investigators and her attorneys that a criminal. case may be initiated against one of the minor children. The FBI declined to comment a celebration of life ceremony. will be held for the teen on Thursday. David Victor-Akenda with us tonight. Victor, thank you. Tonight a powerful moment in court in Nevada, the. mother of an 11-year-old boy who was shot and killed in the. backseat of the family car while on the way to school. What that mother said in court today to the other driver who. police say pulled out a gun and opened fire.

Here's Trevor Rolt. Tonight powerful words from the mother of a child. killed in a horrific road rage attack confronting the suspect. in court. "He wanted to take somebody's life in the way. He took my son's away. He was just trying to make it to school.". Authorities say 11-year-old Brandon Dominguez-Chivaria was. in the backseat Friday morning, when his stepfather had a heated. exchange with another driver, Tyler Johns, as they merged. onto this Nevada freeway. Our suspect then produced a handgun.

and fired one round. That round struck young Brandon, and he. later died at the hospital. Today the judge granting the mother's request to hold the. suspect without bail. "My son is never going to come back. He took my son's blood and he needs to be here and pay for. everything he did.". David, the suspect Tyler Johns is now. facing a first-degree murder charge. He's due back in court next month. David Treverold reporting, "Thank you, Trevor." Now to the escalating tensions in the Caribbean, the. US military presence off of Venezuela tonight, our reporter.

out on the water and what he witnessed today. President Trump has not ruled out strikes. inside Venezuela. Here's Matt Rivers again tonight. Tonight we're on a fishing boat just. a few miles from the coast of Venezuela when we spot. it. A massive US warship in the distance. Moments later, a second. A destroyer and an amphibious assault ship, both. sailing the thin stretch of water between Venezuela and. Trinidad. So we're just off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago. and just over my shoulder there you can see we've spotted a pair.

of US warships. We're too far away to know exactly which ones. they are but we do know that those ships are a part of the. largest US military build up in this region in decades. One of those two Navy ships carrying. Marines from the same unit taking part in joint training. exercises on the islands this week as President Trump. reviews options for possible military strikes inside. Venezuela. The US attacking at least 22 alleged drug boats. killing at least 83 people and striking fear in local. fishermen like Reg Williams.

There are free to go down fishing because next and like. you see because they've seen these videos. And David at the moment we saw those two. warships. We could also see the Venezuelan coastline. That's how close they were just a. remarkable show of force. David Matt Rivers in the region again. tonight for us. Matt thank you back here in the US tonight. And near Boston a massive rescue effort in Yarmouth on Cape. Cod. One worker was killed. Two others rescued in a trench collapse. One of the rescued men reaching out shaking. hands with the rescuer as he was carried away right there.

That trench part of the sewer construction project on the. Cape. When we come back here tonight news this evening about. the Olympics LeBron James and Steph Curry on Weveville. play their answer tonight. Not going to make a lot of people. happy. Also the surveillance and I police say thieves taking. $200,000 worth of items from NFL star Shadeer Sanders son of. Deon Sanders home during the game. And tonight stick around for this the journey. with his own father diagnosed with Alzheimer's actor Chris. Hemsworth right here tonight.

What he's doing to help keep his father's memories alive. in a moment here. Tonight authorities say surveillance. videos show suspects breaking into the home of Cleveland. Brown's rookie quarterback, Shadyr Sanders. Police saying thieves stole $200,000 in. property from him while he was making his NFL debut. Meantime tonight amid all of these thefts the FBI now saying. items found in Chile from similar burglaries and Los. Angeles have now been returned to their owners including a. personalized Rolex belonging to actor Keanu Reeves. When we come back tonight actor Chris.

Hemsworth and his father we take you on their journey. He's trying to keep his father's. memories alive and how they're doing it and their decision. is into night LeBron James and Steph Curry on whether they're. going to play in the Olympics in a moment. To the index LeBron James and Steph Curry. on whether they'll play at the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028. LeBron James who will be 40 by that time saying he won't. play. Steph Curry who will be 40 saying it's unlikely he'll. play but ads never say never. When we come back tonight we take you on a journey with.

actor Chris Hemsworth and his father they're trying to. keep his father's cherished memories alive in a moment. Finally tonight here actor Chris Hemsworth and the. journey with his father. Here's James Longman. Fans know him as the out of this. world hammer-wielding Thor in Marvel's Avengers. But now Chris Hemsworth is showing. his human side in his latest very personal project.

This is a photo of me my dad and. my eyes. I love this photo. His new special on National Geographic Chris Hemsworth a. road trip to remember. Season go on a journey of discovery. with his dad Crane who has early stage Alzheimer's. This is what I'll do there's a play called Blessing. Thank you. Instantly the sound of the bush and the smells reignites these. memories for my childhood.

Have you ever spent that kind of time with your dad before? It's been a hell of a lot of time with my dad. surfing around the backyard. If it never won on one like this. The stars childhood home is recreated for the. father and son to retrace their memories together. How's it feel? A calm. A father and son trip made all the more. poignant because the younger Hemsworth carries. genes that increase the chances of developing. Alzheimer's. What are you afraid of?

The really tender moments in this show where the. two of you were just telling each other how you felt? Yeah. And that was that was very. striking. And I felt kind of a sense of guilt. Here he was a man who had protected me. my entire life. And now he's in a state where he needs. support. And I hadn't had the courage to to check in, you. know. And you distilled all of that into one beautiful moment. because you showed us that photograph of what basically.

of what love looks like. Yeah. It's a really, really touching. moment. Yeah, thanks. It's funny how it all sort of becomes. this sort of full circle. What else are we here for if not to continue. on this journey together with compassion and. empathy? What do you hope that people watching. this will take away? Just the importance of time. with those that we love and how fleeting this. whole experience is.

Chris Hemsworth, a road trip. to remember Sunday on National Geographic and. then streaming on Disney+. David Moore, the most-watched newscast in America. And now, ABC's World News Tonight has won the Emmy for. Best Live News Program for the third year in a row. [Music].