Manhattan prosecutors urged a judge on Wednesday to set a July trial date in Luigi Mangione's state murder case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, two months before jury selection is set to begin in his federal death penalty case.

The two federal officers who fired guns in the shooting death of anti-ICE activist Alex Pretti were placed on leave, Customs and Border Protection officials said Wednesday.

German investigators searched the offices of Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest, on Wednesday in connection with an investigation into possible money laundering, officials said.

As snow from a massive storm began to fall in Bangor, Maine, on Sunday night, six people who had stopped to refuel a Paris-bound luxury jet prepared for takeoff. None would survive the crash that followed, the cause of which remains unknown.

Emergency crews dispatched to icy interstate highways in Mississippi worked overnight and into Wednesday morning to clear stranded vehicles as the eastern U.S. endured what forecasters said could become its longest period of freezing cold in decades.

"Heated Rivalry," HBO Max's gay ice hockey romance, has attracted not only women and LGBTQ viewers, but straight men as well.

Winter's brutal grip on the U.S. East is not letting up, with coming days bringing subfreezing temperatures that will plunge deep into what had been a toasty Florida peninsula and a powerful blizzard forecast that may strike the Atlantic coast.

The U.S. stock market is drifting around its all-time high on Wednesday, while the U.S. dollar's value stabilizes against other currencies after falling to its lowest level in nearly four years.

For big parts of the United States, the past few days have brought lots of snow and lots of cold. Where there's snow and cold, there are slips, falls and ice-related injuries.

The American subsidiary of South Korea-based Hanwha Defense said Wednesday it plans to invest $1.3 billion to build a munitions line after the Army awarded it a production lease at the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas.

Prosecutors have accused a top aide to former New York City Mayor Eric Adams of accepting diamond earrings from two real estate developers, then pressuring city regulators to expedite their construction projects, despite safety concerns.

Federal Reserve officials are expected to keep their short-term interest rate unchanged Wednesday after three cuts last year, ignoring huge pressure for lower borrowing costs from the White House in favor of waiting to see how the economy evolves.

The South Carolina measles outbreak has surpassed the recorded case count in Texas' 2025 outbreak, as health officials have logged almost 600 new cases in just over a month.

Amazon is cutting about 16,000 jobs in the latest round of mass layoffs for the tech industry.