News briefs
2 people killed
in Odesa region
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least two people have been killed in a drone attack in Ukraine’s Odesa region, according to Ukrainian authorities.
The attack targeting a car park on the Black Sea coast happened early Sunday. Three other people were wounded. In the Zaporizhzhia region, tens of thousands of homes were without power after an attack by Russian drones and missiles.
Ukraine’s national energy operator reported rolling power cuts due to attacks on the power grid. In Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike set fire to an oil tanker and infrastructure at Tuapse port. The strike is part of Ukraine’s efforts to reduce Russia’s oil refining capacity.
Trump’s testing
plans clarified
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Energy Secretary Chris Wright says that new tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions.
Wright in a Fox News interview on Sunday clarified the Trump administration’s plans. Trump in a social media post last week said that he had “instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”
Trump in the days since making that pronouncement had been coy when asked by reporters about whether he was ordering the resumption of explosive testing of nuclear weapons or calling for the testing of U.S. systems that could deliver a nuclear weapon.
Woman kills
escaped monkey
(AP) — A homeowner in Mississippi has shot and killed one of the monkeys that escaped after a truck accident last week. Jessica Bond Ferguson says she acted to protect her children after her son spotted the monkey near their home early Sunday.
She says residents had been warned about diseases the monkeys might carry. The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the incident but didn’t provide details.
The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks has taken possession of the monkey. The escape happened near Heidelberg, Mississippi, and involved several monkeysd




