A top member of Congress has proposed a team of experts that would determine whether Donald Trump is fit to remain as president.

Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin has submitted legislation that would create an "independent commission on presidential capacity".

The commission would be tasked with deciding whether to activate the 25th Amendment, a law that allows for a president to be removed from office if they are no longer up to the job.

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While the commission would apply to all future presidents, Raskin specifically cited the behaviour of Trump in motivating the legislation.

"Public trust in Donald Trump's ability to meet the duties of his office has dropped to unprecedented lows as he threatens to destroy entire civilisations, unleashes chaos in the Middle East while violating Congressional war powers, aggressively insults the Pope of the Catholic Church and sends out artistic renderings online likening himself to Jesus Christ," Raskin said in a statement. 

"We are at a dangerous precipice.

"It is now a matter of national security for Congress to fulfill its responsibilities under the 25th Amendment to protect the American people from an increasingly volatile and unstable situation."

The bipartisan commission would consist of eight retired statespersons including former presidents, vice presidents and cabinet members, selected by both parties.

And party leaders would also select four doctors and four psychiatrists to serve on the body. 

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The commission would then select a 17th member themselves.

With the consent of the vice president, the commission could decide whether to activate the 25th amendment.

Raskin's legislation is likely not to pass into law because Democrats are in the minority in both chambers.

But fifty Democrats are cosponsoring the legislation nevertheless.

In recent weeks many prominent conservatives have begun publicly expressing concern about Trump's mental state."He's clearly not well," his former press secretary Stephanie Grisham said last week.

"This isn't 'just Trump being Trump'."

And Trump's former lawyer Ty Cobb said the president was "clearly insane".

"It highlights the level of his insanity and his depravity," Cobb said.

"I think he's gone."

Last week Raskin wrote to the White House doctor demanding Trump take a dementia test.

Raskin requested a comprehensive cognitive test, with the results to be shared with Congress.

He cited Trump's profane social media post on Easter Sunday in which he threatened to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure, dropped the F-word and praised Allah.

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But the president's behaviour has become a talking point in American media in his second term. 

In a cabinet meeting he spoke for several minutes about a conversation he had with the CEO of the company that makes Sharpies, which the company said never took place.

He spoke for eight minutes about poisonous snakes in Peru during a Christmas event.

He claimed to have ended a non-existent war between Cambodia and Armenia.

He also apparently concocted a long anecdote about his uncle's interactions at college with the Unabomber, even though his uncle died before the terrorist was identified.

And after posting an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ this week, he later claimed he thought it showed him as a doctor.

The 25th Amendment has never been invoked to permanently remove a president from power.

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Working out at a specific time of day could seriously boost sleep and heart health.

But what time of day works best varies from person to person.

New research has shown timing exercise to match your body clock chronotype can improve sleep quality and may also lower heart disease risk factors like high blood pressure, fasting glucose, and 'bad' cholesterol.

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Your body clock chronotype is an innate predisposition to sleeping at waking at certain times, and explains why some people are early risers or night owls.

It also affects hormone secretion and energy availability across the day.

Researchers from Pakistan and Scotland have found that timing your exercise to your body clock chronotype could boost positive health outcomes.

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They tested 150 people aged 40 to 60 with at least one cardiovascular risk factor to figure out their chronotypes, then randomly assigned them a time to work out.

Some were given time slots that matched their chronotypes, like between 8am to 11am for morning people, while others were given mismatched slots.

They were then told to work out five times a week for 12 weeks and their results monitored.

Data showed that all the participants experiences better aerobic fitness and sleep quality, and lower cardiovascular disease risk factors after the 12 weeks were up.

But those who had their exercise time slot matched to their chronotype showed much bigger improvements.

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Their blood pressure, autonomic function (including heart rate), aerobic capacity, metabolic markers, and sleep quality were significantly better than those who had mismatched exercise time slots.

Morning people who had exercise slots matched to their chronotype showed even better results.

"This study adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that the timing of exercise when aligned with an individual's internal biological clock can significantly enhance health outcomes," the researchers wrote in journal Open Heart.

Working out your own chronotype can be as simple as filling out the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire online, which was used to assess the chronotypes of the people in the study.

Those wanting a more concrete assessment can speak to a health professional.

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Donald Trump's vice president has said the pope 'needs to be careful' when commenting on theology.

JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism seven years ago, made the comments at a Turning Point USA event.

"In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the Pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology," Vance said.

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"If you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth. 

"That's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

Vance was responding to Pope Leo XIV's message days ago in favour of peace.

"God does not bless any conflict," the pope said.

"Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs."

Vance said the pope's comments were in contradiction to a "more than thousand-year tradition of Just War theory".

"He said that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword…how can you say that?" Vance said.

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"Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated France from the Nazis?

"Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated Holocaust camps and liberated those innocent people from those who had survived the Holocaust?"

Vance has publicly espoused his Catholic faith, including penning an autobiography about his faith journey this year.

The vice president was baptised as a Catholic in 2019, three years before he entered electoral politics. Before that he identified as an atheist.

Vance's comments come days after Trump drew the ire of Christians by posting an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ.

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In the image, Trump is dressed in robes and healing a man with glowing light from his hand. In the foreground a kneeling woman prays to him.

Trump later deleted the image and claimed he was actually being depicted as a doctor.

Vance meanwhile brushed off the criticism by claiming Trump was making a joke.

"I think the president was posting a joke, and of course, he took it down because he recognised a lot of people weren't understanding his humour," Vance said.

Earlier this week, Trump accused Pope Leo as being "weak on crime".

The first American pope, Leo XIV has been the head of the Catholic Church for less than a year.

The Chicago-born pontiff was ordained in 1982 and became a cardinal in 2023.

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