The number of people seriously hurt falling from the U.S.-Mexico border wall in San Diego County has dropped sharply since the U.S. military increased security measures, according to two trauma hospitals that treat those injuries.

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.

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.

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.

Val Kilmer has died at age 65 from pneumonia. The versatile actor played flying ace Iceman opposite Tom Cruise in “Top Gun,” Batman in “Batman Forever” and singer Jim Morrison in the biopic “The Doors.

The Senate confirmed Matt Whitaker late Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to NATO. During a confirmation hearing, Whitaker assured senators that the Trump administration’s commitment to the military alliance was “ironclad.”

The Michigan National Guard has been deployed to assist ice storm recovery efforts in northern Michigan.

A group of 50 Republican and Democratic senators introduced a sanctions package to hit Russia and countries that buy its oil if President Vladimir Putin refuses to engage in good-faith ceasefire negotiations with Ukraine or breaches an eventual agreement.

During a NATO training exercise on Sept. 23, 1972, a helicopter carrying Marines crashed on an island in Norway, killing everyone on board. Decades later, one Marine’s 1970 U.S. Naval Academy class ring was found in “near-perfect” condition at the crash site and returned to his daughter, who embarked on a journey to learn about her father.