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Los Angeles Times announces 74 job cuts due to economic …

FILE - The Los Angeles Times building is seen behind a fence behind the Los Angeles International Airport, Friday, April 10, 2020. The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, announced plans to cut 74 jobs due to economic challenges as the newspaper strives to transform itself into a digital media organization. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

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The Iron Sheik, charismatic former pro wrestling villain …

FILE - The Iron Sheik appears during 140: The Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2009. The Iron Sheik, born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, died Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at age 81. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

How to stay healthy as smoke spreads from Canada wildfires

Traffic moves along West Street past One World Trade Center, in this mirror image reflected in the facade of a building, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in New York, amidst smokey haze from wildfires in Canada. Smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest on Wednesday, covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze, holding up flights at major airports and prompting people to fish out pandemic-era face masks. (AP Photo/Andy Bao)

Voices from the violent civil rights era see attacks on …

Civil rights demonstrators struggle on the ground as state troopers use violence to break up a march in Selma, Ala., on what is known as Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965. (AP Photo)

Wide disagreement reigns in trial of deputy accused of …

Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School School Resource Officer Scot Peterson, right, is shown prior to opening statements in his trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Assistant State Attorneys Kristen Gomes and Steven Klinger are shown at left. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

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The story behind Juneteenth and how it became a federal …

FILE - Dancer Prescylia Mae, of Houston, performs during a dedication ceremony for the massive mural "Absolute Equality" in downtown Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 2021. Communities all over the country will be marking Juneteenth, the day that enslaved Black Americans learned they were free. For generations, the end of one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history has been recognized with joy in the form of parades, street festivals, musical performances or cookouts. Yet, the U.S. government was slow to embrace the occasion. (Stuart Villanueva/The Galveston County Daily News via AP, File)

Home to Glenn, Armstrong and Wrights perfect spot …

FILE - A solider wears a U.S. Space Force uniform during a ceremony for U.S. Air Force airmen transitioning to U.S. Space Force guardian designations at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., Feb. 12, 2021. Ohio's rich history of aviation innovation makes it an “ideally suited” location for the Air Force's new U.S. Space Command headquarters or Space Force units, a group of the state's congressional delegates told Democratic President Joe Biden in a letter Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Atlanta organizers unveil plan to stop ‘Cop City’ …

Hundreds of people gather in Atlanta's City Hall on Monday, June 5, 2023, to speak ahead of a council vote over whether to approve tens of millions in public funding for the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center that activists decry as "Cop City." More than 350 had signed up to speak during the meeting, with hundreds more unable to sign up in time, including a large crowd prevented from entering City Hall due to capacity concerns. (AP Photo/R.J. Rico)

Man pleads guilty to assisting in plot to kidnap …

FILE - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivers her State of the State address to a joint session of the House and Senate, Jan. 25, 2023, at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich. A man accused of supporting a foiled plot to kidnap Whitmer plans to change his not-guilty plea, records show. Shawn Michael Fix, 40, of Belleville, is one of five men charged with providing material support for an act of terrorism in the plot to abduct the Democratic governor in 2020 at her northern Michigan vacation home. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)

Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, …

In this webcam image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, an eruption takes place on the summit of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, Wednesday June 7, 2023. Kilauea, the second largest volcano in Hawaii, began erupting Wednesday morning, officials with the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement. Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, erupted from Sept. 2021 to Dec 2022. A 2018 Kilauea eruption destroyed more than 700 residences. (U.S. Geological Survey via AP)

As conservatives target schools, LGBTQ+ kids and …

Harmony Kennedy, 16, a high school student, sits for a portrait in Nolensville, Tenn., on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. In sixth grade, a boy dropped trash on the floor and told her to pick it up, “because you’re a slave.” She was stunned -- no one had ever said anything like that to her before. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

For many Southern Baptists, the only campaign question …

This combination of 2023 photos shows, from left, former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott. “There is a segment of the white evangelical populace, they’re looking for a way to distance themselves with the deal with the devil they made in 2016" in supporting Trump, said the Rev. Joel Bowman Sr. of Louisville, Kentucky, who was among several Black pastors who left the SBC in 2021 in dismay over what they saw as a racial backlash in a denomination that had once formally repented of its forebears' racism. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, Meg Kinnard)