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A Republican ex-assemblyman from California was hit with a $100,000 fine for going on an illegal spending spree with his campaign finance funds, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

William Brough, who served three terms in the state assembly, spent more than $17,000 on family vacations, clothes, his children's cellphone bills — and even a cigar humidor.

The new attorney hired by Rudy Giuliani to defend him in the Georgia election racketeering case compared himself to a famous example in American history of a lawyer representing an unsavory client, according to the Wall Street Journal — John Adams defending the troops who staged the Boston Massacre.

L. Allyn Stockton Jr., according to the report, "only hesitatingly calls himself a Republican" and says there have been "not infrequent" occasions when he disagrees with his party and votes for Democrats instead. But he thinks that the racketeering charges in this case are on "shaky ground," however unpopular it might be to represent Donald Trump's inner circle.

Former President Donald Trump's support among Christians is by no means universal in the United States, where he has plenty of opponents who identify as Catholic or Mainline Protestant. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia) and the Rev. Al Sharpton are Protestant ministers and scathing Trump critics; President Joe Biden and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) are practicing Catholics who have nothing good to say about the 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner.

Yet Trump remains popular among a particular group within Christianity: far-right white evangelicals. If he wins the Republican presidential nomination next year, he will do it with a lot of help from that demographic.

The pastor of an Indiana church is profusely apologizing to his flock after he invited a long-haired creationist to deliver a lecture to his congregation.

The Christian Post reports that Pastor John Wilkerson of the First Baptist Church of Hammond is apologizing for inviting David Litty, an "educator" for the Creation Evidence Expo, to give people information that purportedly debunks the theory of evolution while lending support to the biblical story of creation that describes the entire universe being created in a week, along with tales of talking snakes and people living to be several hundred years old.

A town hall addressing the QAnon-linked cult that took over an abandoned school in a tiny Canadian town descended into chaos, Vice News reported.

Self-proclaimed "Queen of Canada" Romana Didulo occupied the school in Richmound, Saskatchewan, along with her followers around two months ago. The school property was gifted to her by Rick Manz, who previously intended the property to be used for a marijuana-growing operation, the report stated.

Republican lawmakers headed into Thanksgiving break needing to cool off after a series of Capitol Hill skirmishes.

It's not unusual for members of Congress to argue and yell — and former House speaker John Boehner claimed that the late Rep. Don Young (R-AK) once held a knife to his throat during a heated debate — but recent drama feels different in the aftermath of Jan. 6, 2021, an expert told Politico.

Prosecutors are requesting a lengthy prison sentence for a Kentucky man who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and was caught on video attacking police officers, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.

Photos show 33-year-old Jack Wade Whitton Jr. hitting police with a metal crutch and dragging an injured officer to the ground. Prosecutors want him to spend eight years in prison.