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JUJU CHANG (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Tonight, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan getting personal, waging a war on the British press, taking on the tabloids in defense of what they say is their privacy. A fight that the couple knows all too well. So what sort of content was reportedly leaked to the public? Here's ABC's Maggie Rulli. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Finally from us tonight, it is the dating app that aims to strike a blow against superficiality. But will it work? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ANNOUNCER This is "Nightline." Tonight, the Prince and the papers. Harry's had it with the tabloids. The Duke of Sussex accusing them of a hack attack, allegations of stolen voicemails and false stories, one paper going public with one of Meghan's private letters. Now tensions reaching a tipping point. JUJU CHANG (ABC NEWS) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JUJU CHANG (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) It's been called the white gold of the pandemic, a product so valuable and so essential, it's fueled fights in retailers across the globe. Now, the behind-the-scenes look at a massive roll-out operation to keep toilet paper stocked in stores. Here's ABC's Clayton Sandell. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JUJU CHANG (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening, thanks for joining us. The self-proclaimed "law and order" president defending police officers while putting pen to paper for policing reform. But critics say it's not enough. Tonight, we take you to Maryland, where officers are already learning how to conquer stressful situations before they escalate out of control. Here's my "Nightline" co-anchor, Byron Pitts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening on this Martin Luther King Day. I'm Cynthia McFadden. There were celebrations of the civil rights leader all across the country today, on the first King holiday since his death, the death of his widow, Coretta. More on that later in the program. But first, in Atlanta today, record breaking crowds at the city's history center, where thousands turned out for the first ever viewing of Dr. King's personal papers. Papers that were almost lost to the public. 'Nightline's" Vicki Mabrey reports from Atlanta. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JUJU CHANG (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) A tiny scrap of ancient paper is making big waves with some of the most esteemed scholars in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BILL WEIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) So maybe you didn't grab the morning paper today, maybe work was too busy for you to do any kind of recreational browsing. Well, never fear. We are here to fill you in with another edition of the "Feed Frenzy." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JUJU CHANG (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) You know, if you think about it, on paper, they seem practically the same. The best of young Hollywood, they both snagged Oscars, they're both glamorous A-listers. So why is it that women across America seem to have such strong love-hate feelings about Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway? Here's ABC's John Donvan with a tale of two actresses. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening, I'm Terry Moran. Well, tonight, the guns of Gaza and Israel have gone silent, for now. A hard won and desperately fragile ceasefire is in place, on paper, between Israel and Palestinians who've been shelling each other for days and threatening a wider, bloodier war. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening, I'm Terry Moran. Well tonight, an extremely rich Hollywood couple, a high profile religion and A divorce battle that's about to thrust both of them even further into the spotlight. Katie Holmes blindsided Tom Cruise with divorce papers, after five years of marriage and she's asking for full custody of their daughter, Suri. It's a surprise move that's raised a delicate question of faith and marriage. Could Cruise's famous devotion to the Church of Scientology be one of the causes of the split? Here is ABC's Dan Harris. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) Tonight on "Nightline," marriage impossible? A high-profile religion, Hollywood stars and a blockbuster breakup as Katie Holmes shocks Tom Cruise with divorce papers, and tensions mount around daughter Suri, we ask what role scientology might have played in the superstar split. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) Tonight on "Nightline," Tom Cruise blindsided by divorce papers from Katie Holmes. And she's asking for sole custody of daughter Suri. From bouncing on Oprah's couch to today's surprise announcement, inside a big bucks blockbuster breakup. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JUJU CHANG (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening, I'm Juju Chang. There may be 656 million reasons why the Mega Millions jackpot has turned into a mega mystery. While the rest of us have a few worthless slips of paper, we know that there are three winners in three states. And while it took just a few seconds for a machine to spit out those six magic numbers, exactly who picked them and who will profit is taking a lot longer to sort out. Here's ABC's Ryan Owens. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BILL WEIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) All currency is built on human trust. This mass agreement that bits of paper can be swapped for the fruit of a stranger's labor. Faith that a dollar in the bank today will be there tomorrow and still get you that candy bar. But when fear replaces faith, some start craving the historic safety of gold, never dreaming that there are conmen looking to exploit their urge for security. You're about to meet one, thanks to ABC's Brian Ross. Brian? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BILL WEIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Thanks for joining us, everyone, I'll Bill Weir. So, early in the spring, I checked into a hotel in Ukraine and after unlocking my dingy room, the bellman held up a well-worn piece of paper which read, "You want woman?" I was there to do a story on one of America's biggest international matchmakers, the modern term for what was long known as a broker of mail-order brides. The bellman, pimp, seemed to confirm suspicions about the romance tour I'd come to see, but we found a story much more complex, one filled with expectation and exploitation, love and heartbreak. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening, I'm Terry Moran. They're the most powerful media family in the world, the Murdoch clan. And all his professional life, the billionaire patriarch Rupert Murdoch has been asking the questions, not answering them. Well, all that changed today, when he and his son and a top lieutenant were called before the British parliament to explain the criminal behavior of journalists at one of their tabloid papers. The Murdochs have issued a public apology. But the public uproar continues. Here's ABC's David Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening, I'm Cynthia McFadden. We begin tonight with a storm so big, it's difficult to grasp. Forecasters say that 100 million people could be hit. That's one-third of the country's population. In Dallas, it closed schools. In Chicago, it closed major traffic arteries like Lakeshore Drive. In Oklahoma, the "Tulsa World" newspaper posted a notice on its website saying, "due to extreme weather conditions, today's paper was delivered but it's buried by several inches of snow." To dig out our news, here's Chris Bury in Chicago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BILL WEIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) It is known as the ink stain approach to warfare. Drop American soldiers into an area crawling with the enemy and they'll take a secure zone and spread it the way a spot of ink spreads across cloth. Sounds good in think tank speeches or policy papers, but to see what it actually looks like on the ground, ABC's Mike Boettcher and his son, Carlos, packed up their cameras and spent three months with the 101st Airborne as they try to spread security and stability across Taliban-infested Kandahar. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening. It wasn't "The New York Times", "The Washington Post," or even ABC News. No, it was "The National Enquirer" that brought down former presidential candidate John Edwards, first exposing his affair with Rielle Hunter, then revealing their love child. Of course, Mr Edwards described the paper as tabloid trash. But it seems that were right all along. And we were there as the drama unfolded. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Becoming a celebrity it seems is no longer a particularly difficult task. There's no need for an Oscar-winning performance. Now you can appear on a reality TV show or fall out of a night club with a substandard singer and suddenly your name is in the papers. So has celebrity been eroded? Well, we ask someone who has been spotting stars over a lifetime. John Donvan now with Liz Smith in "The Nightline Interview". [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Voiceover) Time now for tonight's "Closing Arguments." Allen Stanford, the man accused of an $8 billion investment scam and under investigation for ties to a Mexican drug cartel was located in Virginia where he was served papers by the SEC. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening, everyone. I'm Terry Moran. Let's begin tonight with the hard lessons many teenagers are learning in these hard economic times. Long ago it seems thrift was a part of the teenage experience, believe it or not. You got an after-school job running a paper route or flipping burgers or stocking shelves and you saved those pennies. But in the boom years before the crash of 2008, many teenagers enjoyed ready cash from their flush parents. It was an ask and thou shalt receive approach to keeping your high schooler happy, but then times got tough for mom and dad just before the holiday shopping season. As John Berman reports in our series "Crunched". [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) Tonight on "Nightline," super downsize me. You watch every penny, but it may not be the prices you have to worry about. From peanut butter to cereal to toilet paper, we reveal the tricks of the supermarket trade. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening, I'm Cynthia McFadden. It has become a familiar headline. Earthquake rattles southern California. And tomorrow's papers will be much the same. Today, it hit the Los Angles are just before lunchtime and measured 5.4 on the Richter scale. While it caused little physical damage, it certainly put lots of people on edge. ABC's Miguel Marquez was out reporting another story for us when the earthquake stuck and joins us now live from Pomona, California not far from the epicenter. Miguel? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) When is the last time someone aired your dirty laundry, literally? Well, tonight we're going to be combing over bookshelves, shuffling through papers, looking at the pictures on the walls to see what we can learn. Snooping, in other words. We'll admit it. Once the province of private detectives now it's coming under scientific scrutiny. And one expert says he can find clues into your not so secret self in what you display and in what you throw away. Sharyn Alfonsi brings us this report. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Well, it was an HBO television series that became a cultural touchstone and today it opened as a movie "Sex and the City". The film received mixed reviews in many of this morning's papers, but most agree, even bad reviews are unlikely to keep fans away. The road from Home Box Office to the real box office has been a twisted one. I sat down with one of the stars, Cynthia Nixon to hear about the story behind the story. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Well, good Friday evening, everyone. I'm Terry Moran. And tonight, we take a look at Costco. As many Americans have discovered if you ever need a thousand bags of candy or several dozen reams of loose leaf paper, the warehouse style retailer is the place to go. It's helped make economies of scale a reality for any shopper with a lot of closet space or a very big garage. But with the price of gas now at $3.50, food prices soaring too, buying by the wheelbarrow suddenly seems like a good idea to a lot more people. John Donvan went to Washington State near Seattle to see what Costco tick. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) Tonight on "Nightline," inside Costco. Cashews by the bucket, toilet paper by the truckload, Advil by the hundreds. Even though times are tough, why are Costco's aisles still full of customers? TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening, everyone. I'm Terry Moran. Well, tonight, we'll take a rare look inside the polygamous sect that's been grabbing headlines after authorities raided their Texas compound. According to court papers unsealed today, the raid yielded mountains of evidence, including marriage and birth records and others documents unsealed Wednesday described beds inside the group's temple. According to what prosecutors call a confidential informant adult men used the beds to have sex with underage girls. The 416 children taken in the raid will now remain in state custody until at least a hearing late next week. So what was life like for people in this sect? Dan Harris reports. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Now to some headlines from today's papers. BMW has devised a new technology that will deliver an electrical shock to any dog that urinates on a car. The first lady of France will lead a special new program to teach high culture to uncouth Brits, and a new reality TV show called "Dogs on Ice" will feature, well, dogs on ice. Well, how are these stories linked together? Well none of them are true. They're all April's Fools. But are the gags of today as funny as those of the past? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS) Tonight on 'Nightline," no impact man. Could you survive a year without cars, without elevators, without toilet paper? In the fight against global warming, one family tries to cut its environmental impact to zero. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Fake news. It's everywhere. And sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. Not on "Nightline," of course. But we'd better watch out. "The Onion," a parody website and paper that's come a long way in nearly two decades from college prank to nationally-syndicated newspaper and website, is now taking on TV news. But what could they possibly see to make fun of in television news? ABC's John Berman sees a "Sign of the Times." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS) Tonight, on 'Nightline," legacy of a legend. Big crowds turn out to see Martin Luther King Junior's personal papers. They cost his hometown more than $30 million to keep out of private hands. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) From the dog's point of view to the dog days of summer and the hottest things on four legs. It used to be that the most well heeled dog owners only desired a pure bred puppy. Well, not anymore. A local paper here, The New York Observer, has drawn attention to what it calls the increasing popularity of Frankenpups. But we think they're anything but monstrous. Here's ABC's Nancy Weiner. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]