Chris Wright said that tests announced by President Trump last week wouldn’t involve nuclear explosions and would instead focus on other aspects of the weapons.
“I think the tests we’re talking about right now are systems tests,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox News on Sunday. “These are not nuclear explosions.”
As redistricting efforts spread across the country, an Indiana state senator said he isn’t sure how he will vote on a plan that President Trump supports.
Greg Goode, a Republican state lawmaker from Indiana, asked constituents to tell him what they think of drawing new political maps to favor Republicans in Congress.
Fall enrollment is on. Some plans are raising premiums for Part D, which covers prescriptions, by $50 or more per month, while others are lowering them.
The official, Dr. George F. Tidmarsh, a top regulator at the agency, said disagreements over a new program to rapidly approve medications had caused tensions with agency officials.
The chief legal officer of Israel’s military resigned after authorizing the leak of a video in the case involving grave abuse of a Palestinian detainee. That further politicized a fraught case.
Firefighters responding on Emerson Avenue in Paterson, N.J. on Friday night. “People are going to read that there were five fatalities,” the Paterson mayor, André Sayegh, said. “But that’s a family of five.”
Eight members of the oil cartel agreed on Sunday to a small increase but said they would now pause in adding more oil, reflecting market concerns about an oversupply.
An oil refinery south of Kuwait City. An analyst said that increased production by OPEC Plus, along with rising output by countries outside the group, could lead to supply outstripping demand.
Maria Riva in an undated photo. The daughter of the movie star Marlene Dietrich, she grew skilled at an early age at caring for her mother’s costumes and props and stamping her autograph on publicity photos.
U.K. officials said they did not believe the attack on a train to London was connected to terrorism. Two of the 11 people wounded in the stabbing spree remain in critical condition, the police said.
The president’s trade truce with China has lowered U.S. tariffs to a level that could pause a longer-term effort to reduce America’s dependence on Beijing.
The U.S.-China trade deal has pared back U.S. tariffs on some Chinese products to levels that are nominally near or below those President Trump has put on products from other countries.
Housing being built in Los Angeles. Stiff tariffs on steel, copper, lumber and other materials are lifting construction prices and interrupting some jobs.
Practitioners of an annual ritual to clean deceased relatives’ bones are grappling with a new challenge: tourists. Jack Nicas, our Mexico City bureau chief, visits Pomuch, a town in Eastern Mexico that celebrates Día de Muertos unlike any other place.
Few places have felt the effects as palpably as the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, which is deeply enmeshed in the workings of government and has filed criminal cases against President Trump.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, has begun to quietly accelerate a list of “special projects” touching on subjects that have piqued President Trump, including investigations into people and issues he reviles.
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