The “rare exemptions” were outlined in a memorandum issued Tuesday that detailed the reopening of the Defense Department’s deferred resignation program as the Pentagon works to trim the civilian workforce by about 60,000 people.

While President Donald Trump on Monday praised the commitment of Tice’s mother, he dampened expectations that the new administration had made any progress in locating her son. His predecessor maintained as recently as December that he believed that Tice is alive.

The California man accused of plotting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh intends to plead guilty, his attorneys said in a letter to a federal judge.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to arrive in Hungary on Wednesday to meet with its nationalist prime minister despite an international arrest warrant for the Israeli leader over the war in the Gaza Strip.

Myanmar’s ruling military declared a temporary ceasefire in the country’s civil war Wednesday to facilitate relief efforts following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that has killed more than 3,000 people.

China conducted military drills around Taiwan for a second day Wednesday, focusing on the Taiwan Strait — a crucial conduit for international trade separating the self-governing island democracy from China.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said that she has directed federal prosecutors to seek a death sentence for the man accused of killing a health-care executive in Manhattan last year — the first time the Justice Department will pursue capital punishment during the Trump administration.

At least two people were killed in attacks by Sudan’s paramilitary forces on a famine-stricken camp in North Darfur for people displaced by the war in the country, officials and humanitarian organizations said.

A potentially catastrophic and life-threatening extreme weather event that will bring strong tornadoes, devastating flooding, heavy snow and high winds will intensify across the central states on Wednesday.

Africa’s most lethal terrorist organization is expected to gain strength in Somalia, raising the security threat through a Middle East choke point for commercial shipping, a new report cautions.