Release of report highlights allegations of fraud, extortion and other misconduct by orthodontics professors. A settlement allowed them to leave the university with no admission of guilt.

UCLA and Pepperdine, both located just outside the perimeter of the Palisades fire, have moved classes online this week.

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the School of Law, the David Geffen School of Medicine, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the UCLA School of Nursing as well as an education school.

The UCLA campus in Westwood is not in an evacuation zone but right next to mandatory evacuation areas as well as evacuation warning zones. But many on- and off-campus students have already left.

A GOP bill banning transgender girls from playing high school sports could cause conflicts around California even if it fails in the state Capitol.

Blue states are bracing for a battle with the Trump administration over their authority to limit tailpipe emissions, a showdown that will have major repercussions on the types of cars and trucks sold to American drivers.

Shulman’s research shaped modern understanding of knowledge, pedagogy, human development and the intersections between the three disciplines

Movements for climate justice and movements for reparations for colonial harms can reinforce each other. Haiti’s climate vulnerability speaks to these connections.

Lauren Betts had 22 points and 12 rebounds and No. 1 UCLA held off Penn State 83-67 on Wednesday night in a game that was relocated because of the wildfires that have been devastating the Los Angeles area.

UCLA (17-0 overall, 6-0 Big Ten Conference) has now spent eight weeks as the No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 rankings and is one of two unbeaten teams left in the country alongside LSU. The Bruins’ 17-0 start is the best in program history and 12 games remain on the regular season schedule.

In the final days of the Biden administration, the federal Department of Education has resolved a small number of its many remaining Title VI cases involving allegations of antisemitic and anti-Palestinian discrimination.