Rob Portman

University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier has been medically evacuated from North Korea in a coma after being detained for 17 months, his parents confrmed on Tuesday.

Mr Warmbier, 22, is due to arrive home in Cincinnati on Tuesday evening, after a stop at a US military facility near Sapporo, Japan.

U.S. President Barack Obama has held preliminary discussions with his team about whom to nominate to the Supreme Court, the White House said on Feb. 15, while accusing Senate Republicans of "bluster" for saying they would not confirm his pick.