Planned Parenthood officials in Colorado are criticizing Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., over legislation he introduced Wednesday that would revoke federal approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, sending a fundraising email to supporters.

“Yesterday, Sen. Josh Hawley introduced legislation to remove the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, the safe and widely used medication that has been part of abortion care in the United States for more than 25 years,” Sarah Taylor-Nanista, executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado, said in an email to supporters that also asked for donations.

On her LinkedIn page, Taylor-Nanista is listed as the chief of external affairs at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. 

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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to examine Texas’ abortion law on Capitol Hill Sept. 29, 2021, in Washington, D.C.  (Tom Williams/Pool/Getty Images)

“This bill is built on false claims that the medication is ‘inherently dangerous,’ despite decades of scientific evidence showing that mifepristone is safer than many over-the-counter medications — including Tylenol,” Taylor-Nanista added. 

Mifepristone blocks progesterone, a hormone needed to sustain pregnancy, and is typically followed by misoprostol to complete the abortion.

Hawley’s legislation, the Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act, would revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone for abortion, allow women who say they were harmed by chemical abortions to sue manufacturers and make the labeling and distribution of mifepristone for abortion violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

“No amount of profit justifies what has happened to these women,” Hawley told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Congress must ban the chemical abortion drug and empower women to sue its manufacturers.”

Before introducing the bill, Hawley cited concerns about a recent study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center, authored by Ryan T. Anderson, the organization’s president, and Jamie Bryan Hall, its director of data analysis.

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Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley introduced legislation to ban the abortion pill mifepristone. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters; Tom Williams/Pool/Getty Images)

The study reviewed a claims database that included 865,727 prescribed mifepristone abortions from 2017 to 2023 and found that 10.93% of women “experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a Mifepristone abortion.” 

In October, Hawley accused the FDA of endangering women’s health, saying the agency approved the chemical abortion drug without the thorough safety review it had promised.

In her email, Taylor-Nanista argued the bill “isn’t about safety.”

“This is about shutting down abortion access — especially medication abortion — at a moment when millions rely on it,” Taylor-Nanista said. “Since the fall of Roe, medication abortion has become a critical lifeline for patients in states where abortion care has been banned. And that’s exactly why extremists are targeting it now.”

She added that the legislation is “part of a broader strategy to ban telehealth abortion nationwide and strip people of their fundamental rights, forcing patients back into the very barriers that medication abortion and telehealth help overcome.” 

Fox News Digital reached out to Taylor-Nanista and the FDA for comment. 

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Taylor-Nanista said Sen. Josh Hawley’s legislation “is about shutting down abortion access — especially medication abortion — at a moment when millions rely on it.”  (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

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U.S. figure skating star Alysa Liu revealed extensively why she decided to withdraw from the upcoming World Championships following her successes at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. 

At a press conference at her Oakland celebration rally on Thursday, Liu said she wanted to go to worlds, but had too many prior commitments. 

“There’s so many commitments I have and activities that are overlapping with worlds, and also I don’t have much time training,” Liu said. “So I can’t be doing worlds. I don’t think I’d put out my best performance.” 

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Alysa Liu of Team United States performs in the Women’s Single Skating routine during a Figure Skating Exhibition Gala on day fifteen of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Milano Ice Skating Arena on Feb. 21, 2026, in Milan, Italy.  (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

Liu also cited the recent wave of “attention” she’s received after winning gold in the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, and becoming a social media sensation.

“It’s been crazy how much visibility I have right now. I would have never expected that, especially from a figure skater, we don’t really blow up like that. So, definitely an adjustment,” Liu said. “But it’s really just about staying offline.”

Liu’s absence from the world championships roster came just days after she revealed on social media that she was recently “chased” to her car by a spectator. 

“So I land at the airport, & there’s a crowd waiting at the exit with cameras & things for me to sign,” she wrote in an Instagram story. “All up in my personal space. Someone chased me to my car bruh. Please do not do that to me.”

Liu entered temporary retirement shortly after her first Olympic appearance in 2022. Her father, Arthur Liu, said it was due to “trauma.”

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USA’s Alysa Liu reacts after competing in the figure skating women’s single free skating final during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan on Feb. 19, 2026. (WANG Zhao / AFP)

“She became really unhappy,” Arthur Liu told USA Today about why she retired. “She avoided the ice rink at all costs. She’s traumatized. She was just traumatized. She was suffering from PTSD, and she wouldn’t go near the ice rink.”

Before her appearance in the 2022 Beijing Games, she and her father were the alleged targets of a spying operation by the Chinese government. Liu called the experience “a little bit freaky and exciting.”

“You know what I mean? It’s so … unbelievable. You know what I mean like, that’s crazy,” she previously told Fox News Digital at a roundtable interview at the USOPC Media Summit in October. “Like, imagine finding that out at such a young age, I mean, like, in a weird way, I was like, ‘Am I like in some prank show?’ Like, is this world real. Like, I must be some movie character. But, I mean, it was like it made sense to me, you know, from, like, everything my dad did back in his activist days.”

Liu made her return to the sport just two years later in 2024. By March 2025, she was already making history for Team USA, becoming the first American to win at the World Figure Skating Championships in 19 years.

Then, in February, she made history as the first American to win Olympic gold in a women’s individual figure skating competition since 2002 and the first American woman to medal at all in the event since 2006. 

The historic win was followed by a massive surge in popularity.

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Alysa Liu of the United States arrives to compete during the women’s figure skating free program at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026.  (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Prior to the Olympics, she had less than 300,000 followers on Instagram. Just a week after the Olympics ended, she climbed past 5 million. Now, at the time of publication, she has more than 7.7 million. 

But fans will not be able to watch her in Prague, as they eagerly await her return to competition. 

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NBCUniversal is pulling the plug on “Access Hollywood” after nearly 30 years as part of its broader plan to tamp down its syndicated programming.

“NBCUniversal is making changes to our first-run syndication division to better align with the programming preferences of local stations,” NBCUniversal executive Frances Berwick said in a statement. “The company will remain active in the distribution of our existing program library and other off-network titles, while winding down production of our first-run shows. These shows have provided audiences with great talk and entertainment content for many years and we’re very proud of the teams behind them.”

Mario Lopez, Kit Hoover, Scott Evans and Zuri Hall were the show’s hosts.

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NBCUniversal announced it was canceling “Access Hollywood” after nearly 30 years. Mario Lopez was among its hosts. (Zach Dilgard/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

“Access Hollywood” first launched in 1996 and had a notable roster of anchors and correspondents throughout its decades-long run, including Pat O’Brien, Nancy O’Dell, Billy Bush, Jeff Probst, Shauna Robinson, Maria Menounos and Natalie Morales.

While the program covered the latest entertainment news and gossip about Hollywood’s biggest stars, perhaps “Access Hollywood” is best known for being swept up in presidential politics during the 2016 election.

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In what was widely dubbed an October surprise, The Washington Post published the now-infamous “‘Access Hollywood’ tape” from 2006 that captured a crass hot mic conversation between Donald Trump, who at the time was host of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” and Billy Bush while on a bus.

On the leaked tape, Trump was caught bragging about his ability to seduce women, telling Bush, “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. … Grab ’em by the p—-. You can do anything.”

A still from the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape capturing crude comments Donald Trump made in 2005 that resurfaced during the height of the 2016 election.  (Screenshot/NBC)

The tape caused absolute panic within the Republican Party, sparking condemnation from members of Trump’s own party and calls for him to drop out of the the presidential race grew. Trump famously chalked up the conversation as “locker room talk” but issued an apology. 

While many thought the tape would upend his candidacy, Trump ultimately persevered and defeated Hillary Clinton in the election just days later. Notably, Bush was fired as co-host of “Today” as a result of the explosive leak.

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Then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was forced to address the “Access Hollywood” tape during his second debate with his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. (Rick Wilking-Pool/Getty Images)

Other programs being canceled in addition to “Access Hollywood” are “Karamo” and “The Steve Wilkos Show.”

The cancellation comes just weeks after the NBCUniversal announced that “The Kelly Clarkson Show” will end later this year.

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Popular YouTuber turned professional boxer Jake Paul indicated he is planning to run for office in a recent sit-down interview with President Donald Trump. 

During an interview posted to Paul’s YouTube channel Friday, Trump asked him if he would run for office. The president previously endorsed Paul for a potential office run during a speech at a packaging facility in Boone County, Kentucky, on Thursday.

“I think so,” Paul answered, just after saying “I see myself as wanting to get more into this world. I believe it’s the biggest way to create impact and change in America.”

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Boxer and social media influencer Jake Paul (R) speaks as President Donald Trump looks on at Verst Logistics on March 11, 2026, in Hebron, Kentucky. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

If and when Paul does get into politics, he will have Trump as a high-profile ally, as Trump shared his own experience getting into politics as an outsider in the interview. 

“It’s hard. A lot of people talk about it. You had to do it. And I had one shot left because you get to a certain age. You have a few years left. You know, the timing was good, but if I waited longer, it wouldn’t have been good because of the clock. You know, the famous clock. Father time,” Trump said. 

At a rally on Wednesday, Trump gave Paul his “complete and total endorsement” should the boxer choose to pursue political office.

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Jake Paul takes the stage during an event with U.S. President Donald Trump at Verst Logistics on March 11, 2026, in Hebron, Kentucky. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump delivered the initial comments at a political rally at a logistics and transportation facility in Kentucky.

“I’m going to make a prediction that you will be, in the not-too-distant future, running for political office,” Trump said. “You have my complete and total endorsement.”

During the rally, Paul praised Trump for his “courage.”

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with US boxer and influencer Jake Paul during a rally at Verst Logistics in Hebron, Kentucky, on March 11, 2026. (Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

“What Mr. Trump has taught me is courage. We never back down from a fight, even if they’re much bigger than you, much, much bigger than you,” Paul said. “I feel all the local Kentuckians feel the same way. You guys have that fight. You guys have that swag.”

The two were later seen doing Trump’s signature dance in a TikTok video posted by Paul himself. 

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