HIV study finds no ethnic ties Depression among HIV-infected women is due to socioeconomic status and prior psychiatric history instead of ethnic differences, according to a Medical Center psychiatry department study. Read more...

  MICHAEL LITSCHI An LAPD officer signals her dog to sniff a passenger’s bag at LAX on Friday. Airports nationwide have beefed up security since Sept. Read more...

  The Associated Press International media crews cover the news conference of Abdul Salam Zaeef, Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Oct. 31 in Islamabad, Pakistan. Zaeef told reporters U.S. Read more...

By Rachel Makabi Daily Bruin Reporter The University of California has decided to allocate its entire 2 percent increase in state funding toward salary raises, which leaves “core costs” at the university without any increased funding. Read more...

By Jamie Hsiung Daily Bruin Contributor A little more than two months after the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history, authorities expect more people than last year will hit the road when traveling this Thanksgiving holiday. Read more...

  PRIYA SHARMA/Daily Bruin Bob Lhommedieu, along with fellow members of the Fullerton Chapter H.O.G., brought truckloads of toys to Mattel’s Children’s Hospital. By Emily Taylor-Mortorff Daily Bruin Contributor Dwayne Freeman, an 18-year-old Mattel’s Children’s Hospital patient with sickle cell anemia, wheeled his IV drip out with him to see more than 200 leather-clad motorcyclists pull up to the hospital. Read more...