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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.

CNN's Kate Bolduan fact-checked Donald Trump's Friday morning rant outside the courtroom as he returns for Day Four of his criminal trial.

The quadruple-indicted ex-president complained Friday morning about a gag order imposed on him by New York justice Juan Merchan that prohibits him from commenting publicly on witnesses and jurors in the case, and prosecutors argued that Trump has already violated that court order seven times since the start of the trial.

In just three short days in a Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump has already exhibited enough antics before prospective jurors that should have his legal team worrying that they have to do damage control with the seated jury in what is expected to be a six-week long trial.

That is the opinion of MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos, who claimed Trump's inattention and dozing off on the first day of jury selection is the least of the president's team's worries as he has become agitated and demonstrative in the following days.

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.

Republicans in Louisiana are cracking down on the scourge of child laborers taking breaks for lunch.

The New Orleans Advocate reports that the Louisiana House Labor and Industrial Relations panel on Thursday voted to repeal a law that mandates employers give underage workers time to take lunch breaks, while also passing a bill to cut the amount of time in which laid off workers can collect unemployment aid.

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.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough couldn't stop from bursting out laughing on Friday morning after it was reported that Donald Trump's legal team told Judge Juan Merchan they were capable of controlling his outbursts on his Truth Social platform.

The issue came up at the close of proceedings on Thursday in the New York City hush-money trial when Trump's lawyers made a request for the names of the first three witnesses Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office will call when the trial commences.

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.

Based on just three days in the courtroom where Donald Trump is facing 34 felony counts related to hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election, campaign advisers and GOP consultants are already dealing with the crippling effect it is having on his 2024 presidential bid.

Pointing to the four days a week the former president must be in the courtroom or face possible jailing, Trump's inner circle is watching President Joe Biden move about the country and raise massive amounts of campaign cash while the ex-president is limited to using his Truth Social platform and making proclamations on the courthouse steps.

Some House Democrats and House Republicans are coming together toward a common opponent: far-right "pro-Putin" hardliners in the House Republican conference, who appear to be led by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Congresswoman Greene has been threatening to oust the Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Last month she filed a "motion to vacate the chair." If she chooses to call it up she could force a vote on the House floor to try to remove Speaker Johnson.