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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

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has warned that a number of U.S. diplomats will have to leave Russia before the end of next month, the latest salvo in a diplomatic tug-of-war between Moscow and Washington. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday that those U.S. Embassy personnel who would have

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany say a World War II bomb has exploded at a construction site next to a busy railway line in Munich. The blast on Wednesday injured three people.  One of them was seriously hurt. A column of smoke was seen rising from the site near a train station. The site

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say airport police in Tulsa shot and wounded a man after he opened fire on a vehicle carrying his wife, whom he tried to confront in a parking garage after her flight landed. The wife wasn’t injured in the shooting late Tuesday outside Tulsa International Airport. During the shootout, an

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany say three people have been injured including seriously in an explosion at a construction site next to a busy railway line in Munich. It wasn’t immediately clear what led to Wednesday’s blast after which a column of smoke was seen. Police said they had no immediate indication of foul