Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A man who tried to save a naked woman who jumped into freezing and "turbulent" water of the Ohio River in Kentucky is believed to have drowned during his efforts Thursday, authorities said.

A brutally cold punch of Arctic air is expected to arrive in the United States next week, reinforcing winter across the Midwest and much of the East on the heels of this weekend's major snowstorm.

Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the former president of Mali who was ousted during a military coup in August 2020 after serving seven years as the leader of the West African nation, has died at 76.

Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The United States has surpassed 850,000 COVID-19 deaths while reporting a seven-day average of more than 800,000 new daily cases nationwide, Johns Hopkins University data showed Sunday.

Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Hundreds of mourners visited a mosque in the Bronx borough of New York City on Sunday to attend a mass funeral service for victims of last Sunday's deadly apartment building fire.

Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The lone suspect accused of taking four people hostage at a synagogue in Texas on Saturday is dead, authorities said.

Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The Kentucky candle factory that was destroyed by a tornado in December, Mayfield Consumer Products, revealed in a filing that about 250 employees are expected to be laid off, with the rest transferred to a nearby plant.

Jan. 15 (UPI) -- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signaled Saturday that the Empire State was making progress in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent surge of the Omicron variant.

Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Russian authorities on Friday arrested the hacker behind last year's ransomware attack which forced Colonial Pipeline to halt operations for days and caused a temporary fuel shortage in the United States.

Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Glenn Youngkin was sworn in Saturday as Virginia's first Republican governor in over a decade.