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.

Mourners carrying wreaths and flags filled the streets in Lithuania’s capital Wednesday to memorialize four U.S. soldiers who died last week during a military training exercise.

Suspected U.S. airstrikes battered rebel-controlled areas of Yemen into Wednesday, with the Houthis saying the attacks killed at least six people across the country.

The Air Force is reinstating flight restrictions for airmen in the early stage of pregnancy and elevating waiver decisions for expectant aircrew members from flight surgeons to higher command, the service said.

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

A Chinese man was sentenced to a short federal prison term for attempting to smuggle 12 Chinese migrants from the Northern Mariana Islands to Guam last year, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Guam said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel is establishing a new security corridor across the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas, suggesting it would cut off the southern city of Rafah, which Israel has ordered evacuated, from the rest of the Palestinian territory.

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 Navy plans to build treatment plants near Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam that would purify the fuel-contaminated water in the Red Hill water shaft for use in its drinking water system.

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.