• Utah Former Lawmaker To Be Salt Lake City's First Openly Gay Mayor

  Former Utah Democratic state lawmaker Jackie Biskupski will become Salt Lake City's first openly gay mayor after ousting a two-term incumbent in this month's vote, final election results showed on Tuesday.

  

• Price Looms As Major Hurdle In Hepatitis C Eradication

  Few therapies can cure most cases of hepatitis C but lower drug prices, testing and better access to treatment are going to be needed to eliminate the liver-destroying virus worldwide, according to a New England Journal of Medicine editorial.

  

• Sweden Raises Threat Level, Citing 'Concrete Information' Regarding Terrorism

  Sweden's security police raised on Wednesday their terrorist threat assessment by one step, to four on a scale of five, issuing an arrest warrant for one person and saying there was "concrete information" of a possible attack in Sweden days after the Paris killing spree.

  

• Pentagon Targeting Trucks, Rigs In Assault On Islamic State Oil Funding

  U.S.-led air strikes have hit at least 175 targets in the Islamic State's main oil-producing region over the past month, as Washington intensifies efforts to disrupt a key revenue source estimated to provide more than $1 million a day to the militant group.

  

• Islamic State Terrorist Group Says It Has Executed Two Captives From Norway And China

  Islamic State said in the latest edition of its English language magazine on Wednesday that it had killed a Chinese and a Norwegian captive, showing what appeared to be pictures of the dead men under a banner reading "Executed".