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The cash-strapped Republican National Committee (RNC) continues to trail its Democratic counterpart in campaign fundraising. But a new rule recently passed by GOP-friendly officials on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) may end up being a critical lifeline for Republicans this election cycle.

According to the Daily Beast, three Republican members of the FEC appointed during former President Donald Trump's administration recently passed an obscure ruling that effectively approved the expenditure of RNC funds on the ex-president's legal bills. The Beast's Roger Sollenberger and Mini Racker wrote that the rule allows for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) — the GOP's campaign arm for U.S. Senate races — to divert funds from its legal/recount account toward any overt campaign ad buy, provided that money raised from those ads eventually went back into the legal account.

The Supreme Court needs to decide if the January 6 defendants can be charged with obstruction — and they may ultimately pursue a "middle position" solution, The Washington Post editorial board wrote on Friday.

This comes after an oral argument in an appeal by a defendant this week in which many of the justices appeared hesitant about the government's position — and many observers slammed Justice Clarence Thomas for not recusing himself from the case because his wife was involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 election.

Russian state TV broadcasters who once treated Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as a joke now believe she's worthy of being taken very seriously.

The Daily Beast's Julia Davis reported that Kremlin-approved broadcasters have been ecstatic at the ways the Georgia congresswoman has taken a lead role in trying to block Congress from passing more military aid to Ukraine, which has been trying to fend off an unprovoked Russian invasion for the past two-plus years.

Donald Trump's ongoing legal drama has been his most effective fundraising tool, and new data shows his hush money trial could drive up even more small-dollar donations.

The data based on campaign finance filing from the GOP payment processor WinRed shows Trump drew substantially more small-dollar donations in the first quarter of this year on days with new legal developments, which his joint fundraising committee has explicitly referenced in fundraising pitches — nearly a third of which include the phrase "witch hunt," reported Politico.

With less than seven months before Election Day the Biden campaign and the Trump campaign are taking shape, and like their politics they could not be more different.

President Biden is "scooping up record-making donations," "flush with cash," "building a behemoth of a campaign," and "plowing the money into an expanding campaign operation in battleground states that appears to surpass what Donald Trump has built," NBC News reported earlier this month.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a federal government agency created in 2011 during former President Barack Obama's first term — recently created a cap on credit card late fees.

But on Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House Financial Services Committee voted to advance a bill that, if passed, would repeal it.

Former President Donald Trump on Friday ranted outside of a courthouse in Manhattan about the gag order that prevents him from attacking witnesses and jurors in his hush-money trial.

Trump started off his rant by falsely claiming that President Joe Biden was directing all criminal prosecutions against him, despite the fact that the case currently being tried was brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and not the United States Department of Justice.

Emergency rooms have been turning away pregnant women after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, despite federal mandates requiring a standard for their care.

Federal law requires emergency rooms to treat or stabilize patients who are actively in labor and transfer them to another facility if they're unable to provide that standard of care, and medical facilities that accept Medicaid must comply with that law – although the Supreme Court will hear arguments next week that could weaken those protections, reported the Associated Press.

The U.S. House of Representatives moved one step closer to voting on a series of foreign aid bills that have been strongly opposed by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other MAGA lawmakers, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said other Republicans are growing tired of their antics.

The House Rules Committee got enough Democratic support to advance the funding bills, which includes additional aid to Ukraine, in the face of a motion to vacate against speaker Mike Johnson filed by Greene and supported by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), and the "Morning Joe" host compared the dynamic to his own time as a congressman.

The House Ethics Committee's investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has secured the testimony of a witness who claims she saw Gaetz at a cocaine-fueled party that was also attended by a then-17-year-old girl rumored to have had a sexual relationship with the Florida congressman.

ABC News reports that the witness in question told investigators about a party in 2017 that featured drugs such as cocaine and MDMA that was attended by both Gaetz and the then-teenage girl.