Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden condemned gun violence during his visit to Los Angeles on Thursday in response to a shooting at a Santa Clarita, California, high school. Read more...
Photo: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden visited the Los Angeles Trade Technical College in Downtown LA on Thursday to discuss his major platforms for the upcoming 2020 elections, including gun regulation and increased education funding. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Two UCLA professors said they hope to gain a better understanding of American democracy with a nationwide survey leading up to the 2020 general elections. The project, called Nationscape, aims to collect information on voter opinions leading up to the elections. Read more...
Photo: UCLA political science professors Lynn Vavreck (left) and Chris Tausanovitch (right) are leading a nationwide survey to collect information on voter opinions leading up to the 2020 general elections. (Courtesy of Lynn Vavreck)
This post was updated Nov. 13 at 11:17 p.m. The Supreme Court began hearings for the University of California’s case against the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: The University of California was the first institution to file a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration after the administration announced it was ending the DACA program in 2017. That lawsuit is now being heard by the Supreme Court. (Creative Commons courtesy of Wally Gobetz via Flickr)
Protestors demonstrated on the UCLA campus in response to Donald Trump Jr’s book tour stop held at Moore Hall 100. Read more...
States and cities have made significant progress toward using 100% clean energy in recent years, faculty and experts said at a campus event Wednesday. The first-ever Summit on State and Local Progress Toward 100% Clean Energy, hosted by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, featured a panel of state and local officials from across the country, as well as national environmental policy leaders. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation hosted the first-ever Summit on State and Local Progress Toward 100% Clean Energy on Wednesday. The panel discussed efforts by state and local legislatures to phase out fossil fuels in favor of clean energy. (Xuxin Zhang/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Nov. 7 at 10:48 a.m. UCLA will no longer hold the sixth Democratic presidential primary debate. The Democratic National Committee asked its media partners to move the debate, planned for Dec. Read more...
Photo: UCLA will no longer host the sixth Democratic presidential primary debate following concerns raised by employee union American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)
The doors of UCLA’s tribal legal clinic, which allows law students to work directly with tribes to develop legal institutions, will soon be open year-round after receiving a $1.3 million grant. Read more...
Photo: (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)
