Both the administrations of President Bush and Gov. Schwarzenegger have recently exploited the laziness of TV news reporters by producing and distributing their own mock news segments to television stations. Read more...

The media has converged on the Michael Jackson trial as if it were the story of the decade. But viewers and readers should realize all this attention comes at the expense of more important stories ““ from the rebuilding of Afghanistan to congressional bills. Read more...

An accord reached between Taco Bell’s parent company and a farmworker’s advocacy group which boycotted the restaurant has left open the possibility for the popular eatery’s return to campus. Read more...

North Village vehicles were showered with parking tickets for illegally blocking sidewalks around this time last year, but residents say these days violators have been given more leeway. Read more...

In a night filled with live entertainment, big money and bad lawyer jokes, “Bid for a Better World,” the 12th-annual charitable auction for UCLA’s Public Interest Law Fund, held Saturday, proved a successful event in raising money for summer interns in the public interest field. Read more...

It is not every student who has monitored the medical conditions of U.S. base camps in Afghanistan. But that is precisely what Juliet Kirkpatrick, a fourth-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student, did. Read more...