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A military expert revealed on Sunday that President Donald Trump is taking an "insane" approach to ending the war in Ukraine.

Trump held another round of peace talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday, where the two leaders discussed the current 20-point peace plan that is on the table. Ahead of Trump's chat with Zelenskyy, the president said he had a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin following a night of heavy bombing by Russian forces against Ukrainian civilians.

President Donald Trump’s health was called into question Sunday after new photographs revealed additional discoloration on the president’s hands, though the president’s supporters quick to rush to his defense and insist that Trump’s health was unmatched.

Captured by professional photojournalist Andrew Caballero-Reynolds, one of the photos shows Trump with visible discoloration on both hands, whereas previously, Trump had only been seen with prominent discoloration and bruising on his right hand, something the White House said was caused by Trump “shaking hands all day, every day.”

Standing alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of their high-stakes meeting Sunday, President Donald Trump casually laid blame for “explosions in various parts of Russia” on Ukraine, presumably including a recent bombing in Moscow that killed two police officers and a bystander.

Standing next to Zelenskyy at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump was asked by a reporter whether he thought President Vladimir Putin was “serious” about ending the Russo-Ukrainian war given the recent Russian attacks on Ukraine.

CNN data analyst Harry Enten was left floored Sunday after new polling showed President Donald Trump’s support among independents has plummeted to staggering lows just shy of a year into his second term.

According to the new data, Trump’s net approval rating among independent voters fell by a stunning 42 points from January to December, from -1 to -43, a drop so severe that Enten compared the president to French oceanographer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau, known for his undersea expeditions.

Georgetown University law professor Stephen Vladeck sounded the alarm this weekend over the Supreme Court and its increasing use of what legal scholars have dubbed the “shadow docket,” a process by which the court institutes rulings unsigned, and without oral arguments, explanations or written opinions.

The Supreme Court has utilized the shadow docket well over a dozen times since President Donald Trump retook the White House in January, at least 14 of which were in cases that tested the president’s power, with the court siding with Trump in the vast majority of its rulings.

As the Trump administration faces growing scrutiny over its failure to release files on Jeffrey Epstein with limited redactions – as it's required to by law – former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg charted a path Saturday for Democratic lawmakers to force the administration’s hand.

Trump’s Justice Department was hammered last week after failing to comply with the newly enacted Epstein Files Transparency Act, a bill that required the DOJ to release all of its files on Epstein by Dec. 19, and with redactions limited to protecting the identities of victims and minors.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, despite her bureaucratic role leading the agency, is often seen sporting tactical gear – sometimes holding a firearm – and the Trump administration is doing its best to rationalize what Axios described as her “eyebrow-raising wardrobe choices.”

“[Noem] wears her agency's uniforms to honor the men and women she leads, who wear them daily in the line of duty,” a DHS spokesperson told Axios in its report Saturday.

A proposed ballot measure in California that would increase taxes on its wealthiest residents has Pro-Trump billionaire Peter Thiel considering cutting ties with the Golden State, and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) felt compelled to weigh in on the news with a sarcastic quip.

“Peter Thiel is leaving California if we pass a 1% tax on billionaires for 5 years to pay for healthcare for the working class facing steep Medicaid cuts,” Khanna said Friday night in a social media post on X. “I echo what [former President Franklin D. Roosevelt] said with sarcasm of economic royalists when they threatened to leave, ‘I will miss them very much.’”