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A Pennsylvania man accused of assaulting police officers with a lead pipe, poles, a bottle and debris as they defended the U.S. Capitol from rioters on Jan. 6, 2021 has been arrested and faces federal charges.

The FBI arrested 31-year-old Joshua Lee Atwood in Burgettstown, Pa. on Wednesday. He made his first appearance in federal court the same day, according to court records.

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) voted "no" on Friday to a measure that could ultimately provide some assistance to war-torn Ukraine in its fight against Russia, but she was was heard speaking in favor of Ukrainian aid "until she needed MAGA," a former Republican colleague said.

Mace has long had to deal with the fact that, at first, she stood up aggressively against Donald Trump's actions on Jan. 6. Since that time, however, she has amended her positions to more closely match the former president's beliefs. She was confronted about this switch-up on Trump on Real Time with Bill Maher just last month.

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.

Fining Donald Trump $1,000 per gag order violation is a joke, key trial witness Michael Cohen and former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner agreed on Cohen's "Mea Culpa" podcast, which aired Friday.

Prosecutors have proposed the punishment if a judge finds Trump broke the order with social media posts aimed at witnesses — including Cohen.

New York Police Department released details about the man who set fire to himself in a park outside Donald Trump's trial Friday.

He was identified as Max Azzarello, a self-described "investigative researcher" in his 30s. Police said he came to New York City from St. Augustine, Florida, just a few days ago armed with a number of pamphlets that spread conspiracy theories.

As a man police are linking to conspiracy theories set himself on fire in a park outside the courthouse where Donald Trump has been sitting all week, witnesses described the scene inside the trial.

Reporters were just beginning to relay the information that a jury had been chosen when word came in of the fire. CNN quickly carried live footage of the flames.

In the wake of a man setting himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump's hush money trial is taking place, witnesses speaking to the press said they saw him throw a number of multi-colored "papers" in the air before setting himself alight.

MSNBC reporter Yasmin Vossoughian, who saw the incident unfold as she was broadcasting live, said she has "gotten a glimpse of some of those papers" that were found scattered around the man after police put out the fire with fire extinguishers. She said they, "Seem to have some vast conspiracy theories" written on them.

The "soap opera" of Donald Trump's hush money trial continued Friday in a series of odd events that left one seasoned trial lawyer surprised.

"The X factor of weird developments is really high for this trial," wrote former U.S. attorney Harry Litman on X.

The decision by Donald Trump to use his Truth Social platform to go after potential jurors in his Manhattan hush money trial has resulted in his lawyers going into the weekend completely clueless about who they will be cross-examining when the actual trial begins early next week, an expert said Friday.

A decision by Judge Juan Merchan allowed prosecutors to deny Trump's legal team a list of the first three witnesses Manhattan District AttorneyAlvin Bragg's office plans to start the trial with after opening arguments.

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.