The conversation on whether the U.S. judiciary is subject to the whims of politics began long before the Thursday law school forum on the subject. Terri Schiavo, who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years, became a household name when President Bush signed midnight legislation last month asking a federal court to intervene and determine whether Schiavo’s husband could remove her feeding tube. Read more...

A majority of the 2,000 UCLA members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union went on strike on Thursday. AFSCME members work in residential dining and housing services, and the Associated Students of UCLA campus restaurants. Read more...

City levies fines against alleged money launderers The city’s Ethics Commission levied $147,000 in fines against 13 people allegedly involved in political money laundering, officials said. Read more...

For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, being on a sports team often presents difficult challenges ““ and often leads to hiding behind an unspoken “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Read more...

A full house of graduate students, professors, business leaders and fans gathered to hear national celebrity Kelly Perdew speak on his experiences on Donald Trump’s hit television show “The Apprentice II” Wednesday at Korn Hall in the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Read more...

Three Palestinian students from universities in the Gaza strip spoke at UCLA on Wednesday about their experiences living under Israeli military occupation. Hekmat Bessiso, Adel El-Ghoul and Mustafa Al-Kayali are student activists against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Read more...

As Neil Ins weighs his organic blue and pink potatoes, Lynn Johnson displays her plants that grow from seashells and musician Raymond Lee Parker plays jazz music for hours on the piano. Read more...