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Chaos broke out Friday in Los Angeles, where rallygoers recorded video of a man punching a woman at a new "Stop the Steal" rally.

In the video, a man identified by rallygoers as Jon Mellis, a pardoned Capitol rioter known online as @PatriotWildMan, threw the punch outside the federal courthouse at 312 N. Spring St. in downtown Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Police Department received multiple battery reports from the scene, CodeThreeNews reported, citing LAPD radio traffic.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) remains hospitalized, and his condition is unknown — but to some of his Republican constituents, the 84-year-old lawmaker should no longer be in office regardless, MS NOW reported on Friday.

"There are growing calls from Democrats and Republicans alike for transparency," said anchor Jackie Alemany, noting that his office has given barely any details. After Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear issued a letter demanding information about McConnell's condition, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) told the press he doesn't even know if McConnell is alive.

A former Justice Department prosecutor laughed Thursday at the government's Reflecting Pool case against a former Olympian, calling the key evidence "worthless."

Gene Rossi tried more than 110 federal cases over nearly three decades at the Justice Department.

A debate erupted into a racial shouting match after white nationalist Jake Lang told Black conservative Austin Julio Broughton that "Black people are not assimilating into white culture."

Lang, described as a "white supremacist" by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D-NY), is a Jan. 6 rioter charged with beating police officers with a baseball bat who was pardoned by President Donald Trump on his first day back in office.

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare announced on Friday that his office is investigating the Immigration and Customs Enforcement shooting death of 52-year-old Houston man Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, whether or not the federal government offers any help.

"Since Tuesday, when this incident occurred, we have been conducting our own investigation," said Teare. He added that "we were not invited into this scene," but that "my investigators and my civil rights division have been out there ... looking for surveillance footage, talking to witnesses, doing everything that we can and we do in every case to ensure that a full, fair investigation is conducted so that we can be transparent with our community."

A part-time conductor on Chattanooga's Incline Railway was fired over remarks he made to passengers during a Fourth of July ride, according to Chattanooga's Times Free Press.

The Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, or CARTA, dismissed the conductor the same day a passenger shared video of the incident, which the news outlet described as xenophobic.

CNBC was left holding the bag on Friday when Elon Musk abruptly backed out of a live, heavily promoted interview moments before it was set to air, as SpaceX shares slid below the price of their first public trade.

The network had spent the morning teasing the sit-down, billed as Musk's first television interview since SpaceX went public. Anchor Scott Wapner threw to correspondent Julia Boorstin at the Allen & Co. gathering in Sun Valley, Idaho, to explain why it suddenly wasn't happening.