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President Donald Trump said he ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing.

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Thursday,

October 30th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. President Trump met with

China's leader Xi Jinping in South Korea today. After the meeting, Trump met with China's leader Xi Jinping in South Korea today.

After the meeting, Trump agreed to cut tariffs on Chinese imports,

and China agreed to delay restrictions on rare earth minerals for a year and to buy more American soybeans.

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump gave the meeting a rave review.

But overall, I guess on the scale of from zero to ten, with ten being the best, I would say

the meeting was at 12.

But before the meeting, Trump made another announcement.

He said in a social media post that he had directed the Pentagon

to begin testing nuclear weapons on an equal basis with Russia and China. It was an apparent

attempt to flex U.S. military might ahead of the meeting with Xi, but such a test would be a huge

reversal of decades of policy. And none of the

U.S., Russia, or China has tested live nuclear weapons since the 1990s. So it's not clear what

Trump's directive actually means.

Number two.

Hurricane Melissa continued its path of destruction across the Caribbean.

After devastating Western Jamaica on Tuesday, Melissa made landfall in Cuba yesterday.

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