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“The Bachelorette” season with Taylor Frankie Paul canceled after 2023 video surfaces, ABC says

Updated on: March 19, 2026 / 7:04 PM EDT / CBS/AP

ABC has scrubbed the upcoming season of “The Bachelorette,” starring Taylor Frankie Paul, citing a newly released video from 2023.

Thursday’s unprecedented cancellation of the already filmed season of the long-running reality television show comes days before it was to premiere, on Sunday.

“In light of the newly released video just surfaced today, we have made the decision to not move forward with the new season of ‘The Bachelorette’ at this time, and our focus is on supporting the family,” a Disney Entertainment Television spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News.

The statement appeared to reference a 2023 video of an altercation between Paul and her ex-partner, Dakota Mortensen, that was published by TMZ on Thursday. Paul was arrested in 2023 and charged with aggravated assault and other offenses, including domestic violence in the presence of a child. She pleaded guilty that August to a misdemeanor charge of aggravated assault; the other charges were dismissed.

A police spokesperson in Draper City, Utah, told People magazine that there was an open “domestic assault investigation” of Paul and Mortensen, and that “allegations have been made in both directions.” The Draper City Police Department confirmed to CBS News on Thursday evening the accuracy of People’s report. Mortensen is the father of one of Paul’s three children.

Representatives for Paul and Mortensen didn’t immediately return requests for comment. ABC’s statement didn’t include details on what the network planned to do with the show’s time slot.

Taylor Frankie Paul appears at the Oscars in Los Angeles on March 15, 2026. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

Paul, who was promoting Season 22 as recently as Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and on the red carpet before Sunday’s Oscars telecast, was an unusual choice to helm “The Bachelorette.” Unlike previous leads, the 31-year-old had not appeared on the “Bachelor” franchise before — a departure from the typical practice of casting runners-up from previous seasons.

Her selection did offer synergy, though, as she also stars on “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” a Hulu reality show. Both Hulu and ABC are owned by Disney. In a statement confirming her casting in October, ABC credited Paul with “igniting ‘MomTok’ and going viral for pulling back the curtain on Salt Lake’s soft-swinging scene.”

Paul became known as an influencer in the #MomTok community, a group of women from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sharing their lives on TikTok. She made news when she announced in 2022 that she had “stepped out” of an agreement with her husband in terms of relationships with other couples, and they were getting divorced.

“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” premiered in 2024. While Season 4 was released last week, filming on Season 5 had already paused over the investigation.

“It was a decision that all of us girls came up with,” Paul’s co-star Mikayla Matthews said Wednesday on Instagram in response to a fan question about the production freeze. “We didn’t feel comfortable filming with everything that was happening.”

Paul posted on Instagram in December that filming had wrapped on “The Bachelorette,” which is hosted by Jesse Palmer.

Former FBI agents sue Patel claiming they were fired for work on Trump election conspiracy case

March 19, 2026 10:59 PM UTC / Reuters

• Summary
• Agents say they were assigned to the investigation
• Firings violated agents constitutional rights, lawsuit says
• Neither agent has been able to find employment since firing

March 19 (Reuters) – Two former FBI special agents sued agency director Kash ​Patel in federal court on Thursday, claiming they were fired because of their work on ‌the investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The agents, who filed their lawsuit in Washington D.C. federal court anonymously, said Kash fired them last fall after Trump and his supporters pushed for their removal ​over their work on the investigation. Kash, who said agents who worked on the election case ​were “corrupt actors” who “weaponized law enforcement,” terminated them without a hearing or investigation, the lawsuit ⁠claims.

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The agents said they were assigned to work on the investigation, which led to Trump’s indictment in 2023 on ​charges he led a conspiracy to block the certification of his election defeat to former President Joe Biden. ​The U.S. Department of Justice dropped the case in 2024 after Trump’s reelection.

The lawsuit asks the court to reinstate the agents to their positions and find that the firings violated their rights under the U.S. Constitution to free speech and due process.

An ​FBI spokesperson declined to comment.

The agents suing said they were assigned to work in the Washington field ​office and had been lauded for their performance during their years of service.

They were each assigned to the investigation into an ‌alleged ⁠scheme to overturn the 2020 election through the use of fake electors, a probe the FBI called “Arctic Frost.” The work was not part of their normal assignments and neither agent played a major role, they said in the lawsuit.

Throughout Trump’s reelection campaign in 2024 and after his election, he and his supporters vowed to seek ​out government employees who ​they said were politically ⁠opposed to Trump, with a special focus on the FBI.

Trump has called the agents who worked on Arctic Frost “total Scum” and “Radical Left Lunatics” in social media posts, according ​to the lawsuit.

Both agents were fired between late October and early November 2025, ​according to ⁠the lawsuit. Each was given a termination letter, and neither was told their termination was based on poor performance or misconduct, the lawsuit said.

Neither agent has been able to secure new employment, in part because the language in ⁠their termination ​letters bars them from further employment with the Executive Branch, the ​lawsuit said. But they have also been repeatedly rejected from employment with other organizations, based in part on a fear that their ​hiring could harm relationships with the Trump administration, the lawsuit said.

Reporting by Diana Novak Jones; Editing by Stephen Coates

GOP senator warns gutting Senate filibuster to pass SAVE America Act is a ‘foolish and lazy idea’

Published Mar 19, 2026, 5:34 PM ET / CNN Politics

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Sen. Thom Tillis on Thursday blasted talk of ending the Senate filibuster to pass the “SAVE America Act” as a “foolish and lazy idea” and warned his party that pushing the president’s priority through the so-called talking filibuster would hand control to Democrats.

“I have made it crystal clear that I will never vote to do this. Eliminating the filibuster is a foolish and lazy idea pushed by politicians seeking short-term gain at the expense of causing irreparable long-term harm to our nation,” Tillis said in a statement.

The retiring North Carolina Republican’s comments come as the Senate is locked in marathon debate over the legislation that is expected to extend into the weekend, though the bill is expected to fail in the end. One of President Donald Trump’s top legislative priorities, the bill would require voters to show ID and proof of US citizenship in federal elections, but it doesn’t have the support needed to pass.

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Tillis has been vocal in his opposition to any attempt to try and force the bill through the Senate.

He’s consistently been against changing long-held Senate rules to make it easier to pass the president’s agenda through the narrowly divided chamber. And he argued that his colleagues and others who are pushing a “talking filibuster” are “either completely misinformed or intentionally misleading the American people.”

“A ‘talking filibuster’ would effectively make Chuck Schumer the new Senate Majority Leader, allowing Democrats to block every single Trump judge and executive branch nominee, and allow them to force endless votes on anything they want. Democrats would control the floor of the U.S. Senate until the end of the year,” he said.

Tillis, who co-sponsored an earlier version of the bill, warned that some states with more rural populations rely heavily on mail-in voting and he said this version could harm their voters’ ability to participate in elections.

“While I support strengthening mail-in ballot integrity, many states like Utah, Florida, Alaska, and Montana rely on the use of mail-in ballots to conduct their elections, and we should not be completely upending how states already securely conduct their elections,” he said. “Even if this issue is fixed, the SAVE America Act still will not have the 60 votes required to pass it.”

Ultimately, he argued, focusing on a bill that doesn’t have the votes is a misuse of the Senate’s time.

“The only real path to address the American people’s declining confidence in our elections is for both parties to find common ground on legislation that supports universal adoption of voter ID, proof of citizenship, and other vital election integrity measures,” he said.

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In Texas race, House GOP leaders back ‘AK Guy’ criticized for past remarks

March 19, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. EDT / The Washington Post

Brandon Herrera, the de facto Republican nominee after Rep. Tony Gonzales exited amid a scandal over an affair, has been knocked for videos on his gun-focused YouTube channel.

Brandon Herrera, a Republican congressional candidate for Texas’s 23rd District, speaks during an event on Feb. 26. (Brenda Bazán/AP)

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Brandon Herrera, a candidate seeking to replace an embattled incumbent in West Texas, owns a copy of “Mein Kampf,” poked fun at veterans’ suicide rates and claimed President Abraham Lincoln “didn’t free anybody.”

内坦亚胡：伊朗已无法生产浓缩铀和制造导弹

发布时间 / 来源：2026年3月20日 07:06 / 联合早报

内坦亚胡3月19日在耶路撒冷召开新闻发布会说：“我们正在取得胜利，伊朗正在被摧毁。” （路透社）

以色列总理内坦亚胡说，以色列和美国对伊朗的战争“胜券在握”，伊朗已被“重创”，无法生产铀浓缩和制造弹道导弹。

法新社报道，内坦亚胡星期四（3月19日）召开英语新闻发布会说：“我们正在采取行动摧毁伊朗制造导弹的产业。伊朗已不再具备浓缩铀和制造弹道导弹的能力。”

他说：“我们正在取得胜利，伊朗正在被摧毁。”

内坦亚胡称，这是美国和以色列联合打击伊朗三大目标中的两个，第三个目标是推翻伊朗政权，现在取决于伊朗人民。

他说：“革命不会在空中发生，还有很多地面选项，我不会透露。”

另外，内坦亚胡坚称星期三（18日）对伊朗南帕尔斯天然气田的袭击是以色列“单独行动”，证实了美国总统特朗普的说法，即以色列在袭击伊朗天然气田之前并未通知美国。他也确认特朗普要求以色列“暂停”此类袭击。

内坦亚胡说：“特朗普总统要求我们暂停袭击，我们已暂停。”他也说，美以联手摧毁了伊朗在里海的整个海军舰队。

至于这场战争会持续多久，内坦亚胡称“有必要就会打下去”，并补充说，“这场战争会比人们想象的更快结束。”

内坦亚胡也驳斥了他把特朗普拖入伊朗战争的说法，并暗示在对伊朗的联合行动中，他扮演辅助角色。

内坦亚胡对记者说：“真的有人认为，有人能够告诉特朗普总统该怎么做吗？他根本不需要任何说服。”

内坦亚胡说：“我认为没有哪两位领导人像我和特朗普总统这样配合默契。他是领导者，而我是他的盟友。”

Commemorative Trump coin should be ‘as large as possible,’ key commission says in granting design approval

2026-03-19T22:12:49.384Z / CNN

President Donald Trump’s handpicked Commission of Fine Arts voted Thursday to approve a commemorative coin for the United States’ 250th birthday featuring the president’s likeness. And it’s going to be big.

“I motion to approve this as presented, and with the strong encouragement that you make it as large as possible, all the way to three inches in diameter,” the commission’s vice chair, James McCrery, said moments before the design was approved.

Trump last year gutted the commission, which has oversight over public buildings, memorials and medals and coins, and installed a group of loyalists.

The coin they approved features an image of Trump standing with fists on his desk. It appears to be adapted from a recent White House photo installed at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. “LIBERTY” is spelled out on the top of the coin, above the dates 1776 and 2026. An eagle graces the back.

“I know he reviews a lot of different images and is very particular about what is put out there about him,” Trump aide Chamberlain Harris, who serves as a commissioner, said at Thursday’s meeting.

“It’s a very strong and very tough image of him, and I think it’s fitting to have a current sitting president who’s presiding over the country over the 250th year on a commemorative coin for said year.”

The design of the America 250 commemorative gold coin.
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Throughout the review process, commissioners made clear that its eventual size matters.

“I think the president likes big things,” said McCrery, who was the original architect of Trump’s sprawling, 89,000-square-foot ballroom project before he was replaced. “Is two inches a good starting point and to work up from there?”

Harris concurred.

“I think the larger the better, and the largest of that circulation, I think, would be his preference,” she said of the president.

The commission is also in the process of reviewing a proposed $1 Trump coin, which is raising legal questions because it’s against the law to display the image of a sitting president or living former president on currency, according to the US code governing coin design.

A sitting president is not prohibited from appearing on a commemorative coin like the one approved Thursday but hasn’t done so since Calvin Coolidge in 1926. Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation to prohibit any living or sitting president from being featured on any US currency.

Comey subpoenaed in conspiracy case against ex-officials who investigated Trump

March 19, 2026 / 5:25 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington— Former FBI Director James Comey has been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Miami as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into Obama-era intelligence officials, two sources familiar with the investigation tell CBS News.

Federal prosecutors have issued more than 130 subpoenas since starting the investigation last year, one of the sources said.

In November, a federal grand jury subpoenaed former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page as part of the wide-ranging probe. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was also a subpoena recipient, his lawyer Michael Bromwich told CBS News, calling the investigation

特朗普促日本在伊朗战争和油价问题上给予更多支持

发布/2026年3月20日 07:22 | 联合早报

美国总统特朗普敦促日本首相高市早苗，在伊朗战争和油价上涨问题上给予更多支持，并以日本偷袭珍珠港为例，为美国和以色列空袭伊朗的秘密性辩护。

路透社报道，高市早苗星期四（3月19日）首次到白宫访问，特朗普以拥抱迎接高市早苗，并在椭圆形办公室的会晤中对高市早苗赞不绝口。此次会议的预期讨论议题包括与日本和中国的紧张关系，以及日本承诺对美国的数十亿美元投资。

但特朗普为伊朗这场令美国盟友措手不及的突袭行动辩护，并利用这次会晤再次向美国的亚洲和欧洲盟友施压。

尽管特朗普宣称美国不需要任何帮忙，但他还是要求盟友协助清除霍尔木兹海峡的水雷并协助护送油轮通过这条关键航道。

特朗普说：“我希望日本能够挺身而出，因为你们知道，我们之间就是这种关系，我们也会为日本挺身而出。”

他说：“我们需要的不多。我们什么都不需要。老实说，我们不需要日本或其他任何国家提供任何东西。但我认为大家应该挺身而出。”

会后，高市早苗接受记者采访时说，她已向特朗普简要介绍日本根据本国法律能在霍尔木兹海峡提供哪些支持，以及不能提供哪些支持。她没有公开做详细说明。

White House complained about ‘known leaker’ but Gabbard never fired him, official says | Fox News

Fox News – Published March 19, 2026 4:42pm EDT

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was not aware that former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent was under FBI investigation for allegedly leaking classified information prior to his resignation, a senior intelligence official told Fox News Digital Thursday.

Kent stepped down Tuesday after publicly breaking with President Donald Trump over the war in Iran, writing in his resignation letter that Tehran posed “no imminent threat” to the United States.

Two sources briefed on the matter told Fox News that the FBI investigation into Kent had been underway for weeks before his departure.

FBI leak investigations are often tightly held in the early stages to avoid tipping off the subject. But the fact that the probe into Kent had been underway for weeks before his resignation — and that the director of national intelligence was not aware of it — raises questions about why the nation’s top intelligence official was not informed.

The lack of awareness also raises questions about how decisions regarding Kent’s access to sensitive information were managed in the weeks leading up to his resignation, as administration officials have said he had been cut out of planning meetings related to the current Iran mission, known as Operation Epic Fury, as well as the president’s daily briefings.

One senior administration official described Kent as a “known leaker” and said Gabbard had been asked to fire Kent and had not done so.

Another official said the White House had complained to Gabbard about Kent, but had not asked her to fire him.

An official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said the president never asked Gabbard to fire Kent, or she would have done so.

As director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Kent typically would oversee the integration and analysis of intelligence related to terrorist threats, a role that typically involves access to some of the government’s most sensitive information.

During a series of recent congressional hearings, Gabbard has been pressed on Kent’s claims.

In a recent exchange with Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., Gabbard was asked whether she agreed with Kent’s resignation statement after Stefanik read portions of it aloud. “He said a lot of things in that letter,” Gabbard responded, adding that the president “makes his own decisions based on the information that’s available to him.”

When pressed on whether Kent’s comments concerned her, she gave a one-word answer: “Yes.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Gabbard, Kent and the FBI for comment.

Fox News’ David Spunt contributed to this report.

In voting process, photo ID gets wide support, Republicans more likely to believe there’s fraud, CBS News poll finds

March 19, 2026 / 6:32 PM EDT / CBS News

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Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus

Requiring photo ID to vote and proving citizenship to register both find wide and often bipartisan support.

But that doesn’t mean everyone sees problems with the current voting system.

It is often Republicans driving the percentages of those who think there is widespread fraud — and often think it’s specifically in cities and Democratic areas — but even then, it’s not an overwhelming majority of them.

Elsewhere, including among many Democrats, there’s concern that proof of citizenship requirements will prevent eligible citizens from voting.

And there’s still a local-first perspective on running elections: Most Americans would have their own states, rather than the federal government, have the final say in how elections are run.

Most Americans also say voting by mail is ok. And people who vote that way are especially inclined to say so.

In all, few Americans feel they know a lot of specifics about what’s in the SAVE Act.

Photo ID and proof of citizenship

The idea of showing photo ID to vote gets support across party lines.

Proving citizenship to register also gets majority backing, if relatively less than a photo ID to vote.

Specifically, in the minds of many, identification requirements to vote would need to be more than things like student IDs or just a signature.

What happens if proof is required?

The perceived implications of needing to prove citizenship are sharply partisan, though: Democrats are more inclined to say it’ll prevent US citizens from being able to vote, while more Republicans say that it will block non-citizens from doing so.

The big picture: How Americans feel about the voting process

Partisanship steers where people think the problems are, if any.

The notion that there is widespread fraud in the system is far more prevalent among the Republican rank and file, more so than others.

But that said, it’s not an overwhelming majority, at just over half of Republicans.

And this is not a new development: in the years since the 2020 election, most Republicans routinely felt former President Joe Biden had not been legitimately elected.

More specifically, Republicans think that when there is fraud, it tends to come from urban areas, more so than suburban or rural places and from Democratic states, not Republican ones.

Mail voting — which, in many states, is a substantial or even entirely the way they vote — draws mixed views. Most Republicans feel it should only be available to those unable to physically vote.

Republicans also tend to feel mail balloting brings more fraud.

But views on mail voting also change depending on the manner in which people cast their own ballots.

Most of those who report voting by mail in 2024 say it should be available to all voters, and this includes about half of the mail-in voters who report having voted for President Trump.

Republicans are far more likely to believe it happens a lot that non-citizens illegally vote in federal elections. But even then, it’s not all Republicans who think so.

More broadly, most Republicans say a major problem is people casting votes who are ineligible to do so.

Democrats see something of the opposite issue — that eligible people being prevented from voting is a major problem.

But views on all this don’t necessarily connect to the SAVE Act. Many who favor ID and proof of citizenship requirements aren’t sure about the SAVE Act, and say they don’t know the specifics of what’s in it.

Are elections a federal matter?

Most feel it is their state — not the federal government — that ought to have a final say in how elections are administered.

In terms of oversight, it may have more to do with who is in power than with abstract views of governance. Today, most Republicans want more federal oversight over their states’ elections, while most Democrats do not. Back in 2021, during the Biden administration, it was the reverse: Democrats wanted more federal oversight, while Republicans did not.

In all, across party lines, Americans already tend to voice at least some confidence (if not a lot) in their local and state elections administration.

They tend to think their own votes will be counted correctly.

Even as they see widespread fraud – primarily in cities and Democratic places – most Republicans are confident that their OWN vote will be counted and recorded correctly.

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This CBS News/YouGov survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 2,500 U.S. adults interviewed between March 16-19, 2026. The sample was weighted to be representative of adults nationwide according to gender, age, race, and education, based on the U.S. Census American Community Survey and Current Population Survey, as well as 2024 presidential vote. The margin of error is ±2.2 points.

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