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Last week, voters in California and Nevada considered the abolition of forced labor — “slavery” or “involuntary servitude,” in the language of the 13th Amendment — in each state’s penal [...]

Shortly before primary polls opened in Michigan last winter, an antiwar movement appeared to be gaining popularity, pledging to cast “uncommitted” votes unless President Biden ended the U.S. government’s support [...]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') continues to charge investment advisers with violations of the 'pay-to-play' rule even where there is no intent to influence a state or local [...]

Byline: Yosef Scher By Yosef Scher, Science and Technology Senior Editor Yosef Scher : Hi Natan . Thank you for taking the time to meet with me. Let's start by [...]

Byline: Yosef Scher By Yosef Scher, Science and Technology Senior Editor In the last couple of years, scientists have devoted more time to understanding how and why people age. The [...]

Byline: Yosef Scher By Yosef Scher, Science and Technology Editor This past week, I walked into Walmart hoping to have a pleasant shopping experience, only to be greeted in the [...]

Byline: Sydney Scher The Undergraduate Students Association Council appointed Thyra Cobbs as the new transfer student representative during the Jan. 24 USAC meeting. The Appointment Review Committee - a three-person [...]

Byline: Sydney Scher Undergraduate Student Association Council Transfer Student Representative Teddy Moreno resigned Jan. 5, leaving an opening for the spot to be filled by Jan. 26. In an emailed [...]

Byline: Sarah NachimsonSydney Scher This post was updated Jan. 17 at 8:51 p.m. Sheena Warecki had fallen behind -- the third-year anthropology transfer student had begun missing classes after falling [...]

With the January 3, 2023, deadline fast approaching for compliance with Exchange Act Rule 15c2-11, as amended and reinterpreted by the staff of the US Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') [...]

Highlights The Securities and Exchange Commission (the 'SEC') has proposed new rules that would dictate with great specificity the manner in which advisers oversee their service providers. While the proposed [...]

Byline: Bill Scher | RealClearWire A poll is a snapshot, not a prediction. That maxim used to be a fairly standard caveat when media outlets published poll data. I rarely [...]

Byline: Bill Scher | RealClearWire Ten states currently have governors who are not from the same party as the person who won that state's 2020 presidential election. That number could [...]

On Sept. 9, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') settled enforcement actions against nine private fund advisers for their failure to: (1) timely disseminate audited financial statements to [...]

On Sept. 15, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') settled enforcement actions against four investment advisers for violating Rule 206(4)-5 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as [...]

By Nov. 4, 2022 (the 'Compliance Date'), registered investment advisers ('RIAs') must comply with the requirements of amended Rule 206(4)-1 (the 'Amended Marketing Rule').1 The Amended Marketing Rule will significantly [...]

Byline: Sydney Scher Following a seven-month closure, Northern Lights opened to the public Monday. Upon reopening, Northern Lights - located between Rolfe Hall and Charles E. Young Research Library - [...]

Byline: Sydney Scher The Undergraduate Students Association Council approved a resolution that stands in solidarity with Pilipino students at UCLA whose families and communities were impacted by the economic and [...]

Byline: Sydney Scher The UCLA English department celebrated the launch of a new digital media lab offering new resources for students and faculty Friday. Located in Kaplan Hall, Room 211, [...]

Byline: Yosef Scher By Yosef Scher, Science & Technology Editor This past semester, I was fortunate enough to be hired for the very competitive and coveted Shabbos waiter position. Over [...]

Byline: Sydney Scher During the Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting on Feb. 15, Academic Affairs Commissioner Angelina Quint said her office's Campus of Care committee is reaching out to professors [...]

Byline: Sydney Scher Associated Students UCLA's new Kerckhoff Coffee House merchandise was met with both excitement and letdowns. Kerckhoff Coffee House is UCLA's oldest coffee shop on campus, opening in [...]

Byline: Sydney Scher Students and professors have expressed mixed feelings about UCLA's transition to Bruin Learn, a new learning management system, during winter quarter. Bruin Learn is built on the [...]

Byline: Sydney Scher The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a resolution Nov. 16 in support of student-initiated and student-run projects overseen by the UCLA Community Programs Office. The Mother Organizations [...]

Byline: Mia Scher Richmond Sarpong from the College of Chemistry received the 2021 Edward Leete Award on Thursday for his research and teachings within the field of organic chemistry. The [...]

Byline: Mia Scher A study led by researchers from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health found that Black children in California face a disproportionate amount of injuries from law [...]

Byline: Bill Scher President Donald Trump has retained support from many Republicans and conservatives thanks to a Faustian bargain: So long as he stacks the judiciary with friendly judges, they'll [...]

Byline: Mia Scher In early May, the Harvard Data Science Review, or HDSR, assessed UC Berkeley's leadership in the field of data science and UC Berkeley's Division of Computing, Data [...]

Byline: Mia Scher Technology developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst scientists and engineers can possibly reduce microplastic pollution in landfills and oceans [...]

Byline: Mia Scher The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a slew of life adjustments for everyone during the global shutdown. Among these changes is a repopularized hobby taken up by many [...]

Byline: Mia Scher More than $667 million in federal funding will support local affordable housing programs and projects across California, as announced Thursday by U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California. The [...]

Byline: Mia Scher Berkeley City Council convened for its regular meeting Tuesday evening to provide updates on the city's Reimagining Public Safety Task Force and discuss the financing of the [...]

Byline: Mia Scher Student well-being, accountability in communication and nonpartisanship are a few things Era Goel is prioritizing in her campaign to be the next ASUC student advocate. In the [...]

Byline: Mia Scher Berkeley community members and campus students reflected on the impacts of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which was signed into law Thursday. The relief [...]

Byline: Mia Scher A study from the UC's Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics predicted that the increased optimism about the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States will [...]

Byline: Mia Scher Catalytic converter thefts are on the rise in the Bay Area, with 74 thefts reported this year as of press time. From 2019 to 2020, the number [...]

Byline: Mia Scher A poll released Thursday by UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies, or IGS, found that California Republicans are less likely to seek the COVID-19 vaccine. In a [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing great uncertainty in the United States and around the world. One potential uncertainty specific to parties in New York is the applicable deadline to file [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting businesses throughout the U.S. and around the world, causing great uncertainty in numerous ways. Even with new guidance and regulations being issued by governments daily, [...]

Julius Ybañez Towers was taking a walk around the Harlem Meer in Central Park with his twin 10-month-old sons and two dogs. A woman stopped to compliment him for giving [...]

inspiring project launched primarily by the United Food and Commercial FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS, LABOR ORGANIZER Ellen Vera has been piecing together Our Harvest Cooperative, an Workers (UFCW) and [...]

'ARE YOU READY FOR A NEW ECONOMY? ARE YOU READY FOR A NEW POLITICS?' The challenge at the podium came from Gus Speth, the courtly co-founder of the Natural Resources [...]

With the ever-expanding role of social media and the Internet, negative reviews can spread virtually unchecked. Although some negative reviews are limited to statements of opinion that, generally, are legally [...]

Dear Diary: Recently on a midday downtown F train, I sat across the aisle from a young man who was alternately filling out an application for a Sanitation Department job [...]

* If Wal-Mart and other major gun sellers partner with the White House, the gun lobby would be divided between manufacturers and retailers, preventing the NRA from positioning itself as [...]

PRESIDENT OBAMA has endured much criticism of his legislative skills from his fellow progressives. His conciliatory approach has been compared unfavorably with Franklin D. Roosevelt's gleeful pugnacity and Lyndon B. [...]

Early in this century, the feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman loved to stroll through Tompkins square Park on New York's Lower East Side, before the U.S. government deported her for [...]

A decade back, I flirted with jogging enough to get a taste of its unique mix of ecstasy and agony. Ecstagony. It's an undeniable high, animal and spiritual at the [...]