Month: December 2021

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat has warned NATO against redeploying U.S. atomic weapons to Eastern Europe if Germany refuses to keep hosting them. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that moving the weapons east would be irresponsible and provocative. Lavrov was responding to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s comment this month that the

By KIM COOK Associated Press Weather vanes were invented for one important job — to tell which way the wind was blowing. Gradually however they have become appreciated as an art form. A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum in New York showcases the history, technical virtuosity and artistic beauty of weather vanes

By RYAN KRYSKA and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school, killing three students, including a 16-year-old boy who died in a deputy’s patrol car on the way to a hospital. Eight other people were wounded, some critically. Oakland County Sheriff

GAUHATI, India (AP) — A passenger train has hit and killed two wild elephants in northeastern India. A ranger says the elephants were walking on the railway track when the train hit them, killing them almost instantly. Authorities buried the bodies after carrying out an autopsy. Wild elephants often stray into human habitations this time

HAYDEN, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama sheriff says a FedEx driver dumped packages into a ravine in the woods at least six times. Now the company and investigators are sorting through the mess. Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon says they’ve now identified about 450 victims whose packages were discovered dumped last month in a ravine

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has confirmed its first five cases of the new omicron coronavirus variant in people linked to arrivals from Nigeria. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency says the cases include a couple who arrived from Nigeria on Nov. 24 and a friend who

By RAF CASERT and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The coronavirus’s omicron variant kept the world off balance Wednesday as reports of infections linked to the mutant strain cropped up in more parts of the globe, and one official said that the wait for more information on its dangers felt like “an eternity.”

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. lawmakers are putting forward proposals to curb social media giants by limiting their free-speech protections against legal liability. Their efforts are coming after a former Facebook product manager presented a case that the company’s systems amplify online hate and extremism and fail to protect young