If using the people of Ukraine as cheap disposable pawns to fight a proxy war against Russia and Putin has been the end game from the start, simply admit it.

President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine, hosted the president of South Africa at the White House and threatened more stringent tariffs against the European Union this week.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio lashed out Friday at a federal judge who intervened to halt the deportation of a planeload of sex offenders and murders, saying his meddling has done severe damage to U.S. foreign policy, is hurting America's humanitarian mission and even sparked new fighting in Libya.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to un-deport an illegal immigrant it had sent to Mexico and who has since gone to Guatemala, saying the government made an "error" in booting him out.

Environmentalists are challenging in court President Donald Trump's executive order that they say strips core protections from the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument and opens the area to harmful commercial fishing.