Donald Trump has not hesitated to voice his opinions on national security issues and to publicly advise the current president on what to do about them in pronouncements that have privately riled the White House. Thursday’s declarations from the president-elect included tweeting that he wants to “greatly” expand America’s nuclear capability — a statement later tempered by a Trump spokesman.
In the past 12 months, Trump has veered widely on the issue, and now he and his advisers are issuing conflicting statements.
Trump said that cost overruns in Lockheed Martin’s $400 billion program to develop the stealth aircraft had prompted him to ask Boeing, another major defense manufacturer, to “price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet.”
Behind The Firewall
How China Tamed the Internet 
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They’ve decided they can abide by Beijing’s rules, but Chinese companies got in ahead of them.
It is often what went wrong that dictates the course of stories about exotic diseases. But in Erich Burger's case, when he returned sick after travels in Botswana and Zambia, health-care workers did the right thing at the right time, with little precedent for their decisions.
“If it’s true what we are hearing, he has brought shame on the family, and shame on this country," said the sister of Anis Amri, the man who allegedly launched a deadly attack on a packed Christmas market.
The deal with the Justice Department could dampen conflict worries for Donald Trump, whose businesses have borrowed more than $300 million from the German bank.
The shift is largely because of the aging of the population, with more deaths last year than at any time since 2000.
“We’re not just doing it as a troll,” said one of the event’s organizers said. Last week, a Virginia ballroom received harassing phone calls after it declined to host the party.
Less than a month before that inauguration, Trump’s program is filled with question marks. It’s a big stage, but political realities seem to be causing internal conflict for many in the creative class.
Uber’s move to neighboring Arizona highlights the patchwork of regulations emerging as states determine how self-driving cars should be tested for safety. In short, this technology could soon be coming to a road near you.
The decision that clarifies an earlier ruling about the constitutionality of the state’s death sentencing scheme could affect hundreds of inmates and ends months of uncertainty surrounding capital punishment in one of the country’s leading death penalty states.
A Fort Worth police officer has been placed on “restricted duty status” after video of the mother’s arrest went viral.
Petula Dvorak
Columnist Millions of Jews and Christians will light candles this weekend to celebrate hope and joy at a time of ugliness and intolerance.
