LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Times said it planned to lay off at least 115 employees — more than 20% of the newsroom — starting Tuesday, one of the largest staff cuts in the newspaper’s 143-year history.

The announcement came after the LA Times Guild walked off the job last Friday to protest the imminent layoffs, the institution’s first ever newsroom union work stoppage.

Matt Pearce, president of the Media Guild of the West, which encompasses the Times

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Ever since Israel was attacked on Oct. 7, a main Israeli highway has been flanked by billboards preaching national unity and a ubiquitous wartime slogan: “Together we will win.”

But lately those billboards have been replaced with a starkly different message: a call for immediate elections.

The mood of the Israeli public is shifting after more than 100 days of war in Gaza – and the catalyst is a rift over the .

Israelis stunned by the initially put aside their differences

NEW YORK (AP) — New Jersey Sen. wants a New York judge to toss out much of the evidence in the bribery prosecution against him, saying investigators illegally searched his residence as revenge because the Democrat defeated a prior prosecution in his home state.

His arguments, delivered by his lawyers, were contained in papers filed late Monday in Manhattan federal court, where Menendez .

In 2017, a federal jury in New Jersey against Menendez and a wealthy Florida eye doctor accused of buying his influence with luxury vacations

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s influential Orthodox Church on Tuesday voiced strong opposition to the center-right government’s same-sex civil marriages, and said it would present its views to lawmakers and congregations nationwide.

A statement by the Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, said that while legislation is parliament’s job, “that doesn’t relieve the Church of its duty to inform the faithful.”

The statement said the Church “strongly opposes” the proposed law, which

FORT SMITH, N.W.T. — Rescuers parachuted into the scene of a deadly plane crash near a remote community in Canada’s North on Tuesday.

The Transportation Safety Board said the British Aerospace Jetstream passenger plane went down near Fort Smith, N.W.T., which is by the Alberta boundary.

The plane had taken off from the community’s airport when it lost contact and crashed near the banks of the frigid Slave River.

It was registered to Northwestern Air Lease, and the company

NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Osgood, a five-time Emmy Award-winning journalist who anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades, hosted the long-running radio program “The Osgood File” and was referred to as CBS News’ poet-in-residence, has died. He was 91.

CBS reported that Osgood died Tuesday at his home in Saddle River, New Jersey, and that the cause was dementia, according to his family.

Osgood was an erudite, warm broadcaster

EDMONTON — The police chief of Alberta’s capital says a heavily armed man allegedly acted alone Tuesday when he entered city hall, fired shots and threw a Molotov cocktail from the building’s second floor.

Dale McFee told reporters a man entered through the Edmonton City Hall parkade and fired shots with a long gun that could fire multiple rounds, shattering glass in the building.

McFee said he then created a small fire outside the elevator.

The chief said an unarmed security guard acted quickly to detain a suspect before police arrived

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge ruled Tuesday that he won’t block a part of a state law that doctors say puts them at risk of prosecution if they perform an abortion to save a patient’s life or health.

State District Judge Bruce Romanick said “is not appropriate and the Plaintiffs have presented no authority for the Court to grant the specific relief requested.” The lawsuit will continue to play out in court, with a jury trial set for August.

The request