Apartments under construction in West L.A. on Wilshire Boulevard. (Daniel Gaines/Los Angeles Times) A key Los Angeles city council committee signed off on a sweeping rezoning plan Tuesday that would focus new market rate and affordable housing on commercial corridors and in existing dense residential neighborhoods. The effort is in response to state housing mandates … Read more
Syria’s state-run media said a strike on the country’s historic town of Palmyra on Wednesday killed 36 people and wounded more than 50, an attack that Damascus has blamed on Israel. The Israeli military declined to comment. The news agency SANA said the strikes also led to significant damage to the targeted buildings and the … Read more
Jose Ibarra listens through an interpreter during his trial at Athens-Clarke County Superior Court on Wednesday in Athens, Ga. (Hyosub Shin / Associated Press) A Venezuelan man has been convicted of murder in the killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, a case that fueled the national debate over immigration during this year’s presidential race. … Read more
An Arizona man brutally beat, shot and burned an exotic dancer to death, leaving her body to be found in a burning car on the interstate last year, police said. Sencere Hayes, 22, was arrested on a first-degree murder charge last week for the horrific killing — bringing joy to the parents of Mercedes Vega, … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to New People party’s leader Alexey Nechaev during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev / Associated Press) Russia’s upper house of parliament on Wednesday endorsed a bill banning adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. The Federation Council also approved bills … Read more
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting in September. The Security Council voted 14-1 Wednesday in favor of a Gaza cease-fire resolution, but it was not adopted because of the U.S. veto. (Seth Wenig / Associated Press) The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in … Read more
Donald Trump’s lawyers are demanding that the Manhattan judge in his hush money case “immediately” toss his conviction — claiming that it’s unconstitutional to prosecute a president-elect. “Immediate dismissal of this case is mandated by the federal Constitution, the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, and the interests of justice, in order to facilitate the orderly … Read more
Attorney General-designate Matt Gaetz returned to his former stomping ground Wednesday to schmooze Republican senators alongside Vice President-elect JD Vance, as a House panel prepared to debate whether to release a potentially explosive report about the Republican ex-Florida congressman’s alleged drug abuse and sexual misconduct. Gaetz, 42, smiled at photographers as he entered the Capitol … Read more
Montreal was one of the few municipalities in Quebec charging a special tax to shelters and transitional housing. The city’s 2025 budget ends the practice. “We can now breathe a little easier on the financial front,” James Hughes, president and CEO of Old Brewery Mission, said upon learning of the cancelation of the special tax. … Read more
‘We could not support an unconditional ceasefire that failed to release the hostages,’ Robert Wood, the deputy U.S. ambassador to the UN, told the council U.S. Alternate Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in the Middle East on Nov. 20, 2024, at … Read more
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