President Barack Obama signed today an executive order that officially puts into effect $85 billion in across-the-board national spending cuts known as sequestration. “By the authority vested in me as President … I hereby order that budgetary resources in each non-exempt budget account be reduced by the amount calculated by the Office of Management and Budget,” Obama stated in the order. Read more...

The University of California Board of Regents has appointed a special committee to formally begin the search for a new president to replace Mark Yudof, who will step down in August. Read more...