National

WESTWOOD—On October 31, the UCLA faculty voted in favor of making a one quarter-long diversity course a degree requirement for students of all majors. The initiative, which passed amongst UCLA faculty by a margin of 332 to 303, will become university policy if approved by both the Academic Senate’s Legislative Assembly and the Academic Senate’s Undergraduate Council. If passed, the degree requirement...

UNITED STATES—Fisher-Price and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a product warning on Thursday, April 4 after multiple reports of infant deaths caused by  the Rock n’ Play item. The CPSC reported in a press release that there have been 10 infant deaths from the product that have occurred since 2015, after the infants rolled from their back to...

MILWAUKEE—Milwaukee Police is currently seeking help in identifying the suspect of the Bernell Trammell shooting, which happened on Thursday, July 23, on East Wright Street in the city of Milwaukee. Bernell Trammell, the victim, 60, was killed outside his own business at around 12:31 p.m. The shooting happened at the 900 block of E. Wright Street in the Riverwest community...

UNITED STATES—According to the United States Department of Defense, as of April 9, the number of patients at overflow hospitals in New York has doubled. Two oxygen machines used to treat Coronavirus patients in the Queens, New York area were overloaded which caused the machines to fail. Patients were transported to overflow temporary hospitals at the convention center and...

CALIFORNIA—California Governor Jerry Brown announced Wednesday, April 18  that he will deploy as many as 400 National Guard troops to the California border, joining the rest of the border states at President Donald Trump’s request, who have already committed to sending more troops to the border. In a general order issued by Governor Brown, he explained the coordination between federal...

SAN FRANCISCO—Mayor London Breed defended Speaker of House Nancy Pelocy about her controversial salon visit in her comment to a question by ABC7 News on Friday, September 4. London Breed went to Dolores Park and attended an event to hand out masks with a LGBTQ NPO The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on September 4. ABC News asked for her comment...

UNITED STATES—Attorney General William Barr released the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Thursday, April 18. During a press conference on Thursday, Barr spoke about the release of the confidential report completed by Robert Mueller on March 22. A public version of the reported with redacted details was made available on the Department of Justice website after it...

PORTLAND–A group of approximately 250 people gathered at Normandale Park in Portland on Saturday, August 22. As rocks and bottles with chemical solutions were thrown and paintball guns, fireworks and green laser were used, authorities declared the demonstration a riot. Right-wing and left-wing protesters gathered at Northeast 57th Avenue and Northeast Halsey Street on Saturday night and proceeded to march...

WASHINGTON D.C.— On Friday, August 21, a five-year-old boy was shot in the 1300 block of Congress Street Southeast, Washington D.C. at 4:24 p.m. The incident occurred in the vicinity of an attempted robbery of pedestrians who fled. In response, one of the alleged robbers fired many shots, accidentally hitting the young boy rather than the intended target. The bullet...

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—Hundreds of looters in support of the Black Lives Matter movement swept through downtown Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, 13 blocks of North Michigan Ave, early on Monday morning, August 10. The aftermath of the looting resulted in 13 police officers injured, 2 people shot, multiple businesses destroyed, and over 100 arrests, according to Chicago Police Department (CPD) officers. Mayor Lori...