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More than 3,000 potentially harmful chemicals found in food packaging

International experts who analyzed more than 1,200 scientific studies warn chemicals are being consumed with unknown long-term impacts

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Look closely at those white Jaguars in San Francisco — no drivers!

The vehicles have been under development for years, but Google-owned Waymo and Cruise, which is owned by General Motors, are now offering robot-driven cars to ferry passengers in San Francisco.

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Scientists show that solar energy outperforms nuclear on powering crewed missions to Mars

Researchers from the University of California have argued that human ground expedition on Mars can be powered by solar energy harvesting.

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Financial shortfalls hamper college dreams. Here's what can help California students

Yajun Chen is an A student, but may turn down the University of California for a community college. Eric Xie-McCarthy achieved a 4.6 GPA in a rigorous course load, but had to consider forgoing a rich residential experience at his top choice, UC Berkeley, to save money and commute to…

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Student arrested after allegedly threatening to shoot staff at UC Berkeley

A 39-year-old student was charged earlier this week with two counts of making criminal threats to university staff at the University of California, Berkeley.

Los Angeles Times

Housing shortage, soaring rents squeeze US college students

College students squeezed by a massive housing shortage and rising rents are living in motels, commuting long distances or sleeping in their cars

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UC Berkeley campus lockdown over person ‘who may want to harm individuals’ is lifted

Authorities say there is ‘NOT an active shooter’ at the university near San Francisco

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College admission season wraps up with a rejection party, a paper shredder and joy

LOS ANGELES — After months of suspense over their college acceptance decisions, the seniors at Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles were much in need of a cathartic event: a college rejection party.

Los Angeles Times

They were spending all their income on rent. A garage turned ADU saved them

Six years after meeting as students at UC Berkeley, Nadine Levyfield and Charlie Marshak were excited to reconnect romantically in Los Angeles as professionals — Marshak as a data scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge and Levyfield as a career services technician at Glendale Community College.

Los Angeles Times

Who’s driving that food delivery bot? It might be a Gen Z gamer

In a low-light Culver City, California control room, Lily Shaw is getting her pilot mood on.

Los Angeles Times

‘The law that swallowed California’: Why the much-derided CEQA is so hard to change

LOS ANGELES — The landmark 1970 law for preserving California’s beauty has a long history of backfiring.

Los Angeles Times

New California law prevents enrollment drop at UC Berkeley

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a new law to overturn a recent court ruling that would have reduced enrollment at the University of California, Berkeley

The Independent UK

California lawmakers pass urgent bill to stop Berkeley enrollment cuts

LOS ANGELES — California lawmakers passed a bill Monday that would rescue UC Berkeley from a court-ordered enrollment freeze and steep admission cuts and allow the university to resume plans to enroll more than 5,000 first-year California students.

Los Angeles Times

Lawmakers to vote on fix to increase UC Berkeley enrollment

California lawmakers are fast-tracking a proposal that could allow the University of California, Berkeley, to admit as many students as it had planned to for the fall semester despite a recent judicial freeze on enrollment

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Lawmakers unveil rescue effort to help UC Berkeley avoid enrollment cuts after court battle

LOS ANGELES — California legislators are fast-tracking a rescue effort to help the University of California, Berkeley avoid slashing its in-person fall class by more than 2,600 students to meet a court-ordered enrollment freeze, just as the university prepares to release admission decisions this month.

Los Angeles Times

Can UC Berkeley plan to house homeless people inspire other campuses to tackle the crisis?

LOS ANGELES — In a partnership unique in American higher education, UC Berkeley and city and nonprofit collaborators unveiled plans Wednesday to provide interim housing at a converted motel, as well as meals and social services, to unsheltered people sleeping in the iconic People's Park.

The Independent UK

UC Berkeley declines group's offer to admit 1K more students

A group of residents that successfully challenged the University of California, Berkeley to limit its undergraduate enrollment has offered to allow 1,000 more students in the upcoming academic year

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: California needs a different approach to solving UC crowding

The University of California’s plan to add 20,000 students by 2030 has led to conflicts with some of the communities where campuses are located, with residents complaining that the university system is not doing enough to house students, and are merely shifting the housing burden to them.

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UC Berkeley will increase California students, cut out-of-state ones to meet enrollment cap

The University of California, Berkeley will boost the number of Californians and significantly reduce out-of-state and international students this fall as it scrambles to meet a court-ordered enrollment cap for the coming academic year just a few weeks before admission decisions are set for release.

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Berkeley NIMBYs Are Taking Advantage of California's Flawed Environmental Regulations

Liberal Berkeley officials might be coming around to the view held by conservative business leaders, who have long argued that California's Environmental Quality Act needs an overhaul.

Los Angeles Times

UC Berkeley could be forced to cut enrollment by 3,050 seats under high-court decision

LOS ANGELES — The California Supreme Court on Thursday declined to lift an enrollment cap on UC Berkeley, leaving one of the nation's most popular campuses scrambling to cut its incoming fall class by one-third, or 3,050 seats, just weeks before it was set to release admission decisions.

Los Angeles Times

California voters strongly support mask and vaccine mandates in K-12 schools

LOS ANGELES — Nearly two-thirds of California voters, including a majority of parents, support mask and vaccine mandates in K-12 schools, according to a poll conducted this month by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley and co-sponsored by the L.A. Times.

Los Angeles Times

Here's why UC Berkeley may be forced to slash 3,000 seats from its fall class

This week, UC Berkeley announced that if a court order stands, it would be forced to slash its incoming fall 2022 class by one-third, or 3,050 seats for first-year and transfer students. The news — just a month before the campus was set to release admission decisions — set 150,000…

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Top California university may have to slash admissions after neighborhood group complains

The conflict is the latest highlighting key debates on affordable housing and education equality in the state

Los Angeles Times

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's approval ratings hit an all-time low, poll says

LOS ANGELES — Views of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's job performance have tumbled to the lowest point in her three-decade Senate career, with just 30% of California voters giving her positive marks in a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times.

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