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Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries vowed Friday the majority of Democrats will support Republicans' Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and Gaza foreign aid legislation as Republican Speaker Mike Johnson lost support of another member of his conference to a faction determined to oust him.

“Democrats will provide a majority of our majority as it relates to funding Israel, humanitarian assistance, Ukraine, and our allies in the Indo Pacific,” Minority Leader Jeffries said. "It remains to be seen what Republicans will do in terms of meeting the national security needs of the American people, but it was important for House Democrats to ensure that the national security bills are going to be considered."

Donald Trump's jury has officially been selected, including the necessary six alternate jurors.

At lunchtime Friday, seven men and five women had been seated on the main jury and five women and one man were chosen as alternates.

An unidentified man set himself on fire outside the Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump's trial is currently taking place.

CNN reported that the man self-immolated Friday afternoon, which resulted in first responders trying to put out the flames with fire extinguishers and treating him with first aid.

As Donald Trump's first criminal trial gets well underway, the "commentariat class" has already made up its mind that Trump will likely escape a conviction — and they're even questioning the legal soundness of the case, a pair of analysts wrote Friday.

In a new op-ed from Slate, Dahlia Lithwick and Anat Shenker-Osorio contend that pundits and analysts who are quick to dismiss the case — in which Trump is accused of illegally offering a hush money payment to hide an affair he had with an adult film star before the 2016 presidential election — are making "the category error" that lawyers' opinions about legal cases "is somehow predictive of political and electoral outcomes."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is risking a growing revolt by a faction of her most ardent supporters who are furious she is trying to take down House Speaker Michael Johnson (R-LA), whom they regard as their Christian champion in Congress, according to a report.

Greene, despite all of her marital difficulties, has long made her Christianity a central part of her appeal to conservatives, but she lacks the longtime ties to the evangelical community that Johnson can brag about and, if push comes to shove, she may find herself on the outside if she succeeds in ousting him from his speakership.

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.

House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) job appears to be in real peril as Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has now picked up a third cosponsor to vacate his chair.

Politico's Olivia Beavers reports that Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has now jumped in to back Greene's effort to remove Johnson as speaker, making him the third Republican to back the measure after Greene and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).

Donald Trump's latest outbursts that prosecutors say violated the gag order in his hush money trial were egged on by a key witness in the case, his former White House lawyer told CNN on Friday.

Speaking to Wolf Blitzer, Jim Schultz said that as long as Cohen is speaking out, then Trump will continue to as well.

A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Republican operative who had been pardoned by Donald Trump in the waning days of his presidency.

The District of Columbia Circuit Court rejected an appeal by Jesse Benton, a former senior aide to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul, of his November 2022 conviction for orchestrating a scheme to conceal a $100,000 donation from a Russian national to his GOP consulting firm — and pocketing most of it.

Eagle-eyed New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman once again caught former President Donald Trump dozing off during a hearing related to his hush-money trial in New York on Friday.

In an update posted to the New York Times' live blog of the proceedings, Haberman wrote that "Trump appears to have fallen asleep in court again," and then added that "it happened several times just now" as "his eyes were closed for extended periods and his head dropped down twice."

Reacting to an angry rant delivered by Donald Trump when he showed up for court on Friday morning, CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig noted the former president looked "frazzled," which could be a clue to prosecutors that they are getting to him after only three days in court.

Speaking with host Kate Bolduan after the former president had already been admitted into the courtroom, where he will be tried on 34 felony counts in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial, Honig noted that Trump seemed agitated as he addressed the press and listed off a series of grievances.

John Paulson, an American hedge fund billionaire, "one of the most prominent names in high finance" and a major backer of Donald Trump, saw one of his luxury car dealerships in Puerto Rico go up in flames this past weekend — for the second time in five months.

And lawyers for Paulson's former business partner, Fahad Ghaffar, are suggesting that there's something sinister behind the fires.

Donald Trump's attacks on potential jurors and the court officials overseeing his so-called hush money trial have put his lawyers in a bad position going into a weekend where they need to prepare for the hearing to actually begin, a legal expert said Friday.

According to CNN's Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig, a ruling by Judge Juan Merchan that kept Trump's lawyers from being provided a list of the first three witnesses to be called by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office is a major setback for his defense.