North Carolina Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn recently called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a "thug" and the Ukrainian government "incredibly evil," criticizing the country and its leader as Russia invades it.

Cawthorn's statements were aligned with former President Donald Trump's praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin but in sharp contrast to the United States' broad bipartisan support for Ukraine.

An anti-abortion GOP lawmaker in Missouri, a state which passed one of the country’s strictest abortion laws in back 2019, says she has a solution to to the problem of people traveling out of state for abortions, The Washington Post reports.

"An unusual new provision, introduced by state Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R), would allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps a Missouri resident obtain an abortion out of state, using the novel legal strategy behind the restrictive law in Texas that since September has banned abortions in that state after six weeks of pregnancy," reports the Post. "Coleman has attached the measure as an amendment to several abortion-related bills that have made it through committee and are waiting to be heard on the floor of the House of Representatives."