US: Three Arrested as Clashes Erupt Outside TPUSA Event at UC Berkeley

At UC Berkeley, at least three people were arrested during clashes outside the Turning Point USA event at Zellerbach Hall on Monday, November 10. Tensions escalated when protesters surrounded an attendee at a TPUSA table, leading to verbal altercations and a physical fight.

Academic workers at UC Los Angeles strike over university's handling of pro-Palestinian protests

STORY: Academic workers at UC Los Angeles strike over university's handling of pro-Palestinian protests SHOOTING TIME: May 28, 2024 DATELINE: May 29, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:08 LOCATION: LOS ANGELES, the United States CATEGORY: POLITICS/EDUCATION SHOTLIST: 1. various of the pro-Palestinian protests STORYLINE: Academic workers at the University of California (UC), Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California, walked off the job on Tuesday to protest the public university system's handling of pro-Palestinian protests. United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 4811, the union of 48,000 academic workers at the ten campuses of the UC system and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, announced Tuesday morning on social media platform X that UC Los Angeles "is officially ON STRIKE." Over 50 protesters with "UAW on strike" signs were protesting in the middle of Dickson Plaza, reported the university's student newspaper Daily Bruin Tuesday morning, adding that protesters chanted, "L.A. is a union town" and "Whose univ

Judiciary Hearing - Washington

Judiciary Hearing - Washington

Rebecca Wexler, Assistant Professor of Law UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, California, appears before a Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism hearing to examine AI in criminal investigations and prosecutions, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, Wednesday, January 24, 2024. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Judiciary Hearing - Washington

Judiciary Hearing - Washington

Rebecca Wexler, Assistant Professor of Law UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, California, appears before a Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism hearing to examine AI in criminal investigations and prosecutions, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, Wednesday, January 24, 2024. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

China-U.S. co-founded robotic surgery training center inaugurated

STORY: China-U.S. co-founded robotic surgery training center inaugurated DATELINE: Sept. 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:24 LOCATION: GUANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the training center 2. SOUNDBITE (English): AHAREH M. NEJAD, Director of Robotic Surgery, UC Davis STORYLINE: The International Robotic Surgery Training Center, jointly established by Chinese and U.S. institutions, was inaugurated in Guangzhou, capital city of south China's Guangdong Province, on Tuesday. The center was jointly established by the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and UC Berkeley. It will provide training on robotic surgeries to trainees from China, the United States and other Asia-Pacific countries. The center, covering an area of 1,200 square meters in the Nansha Division of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, is equipped with two sets of the state-of-the-art fourth-generation da Vinci Xi surgical robotic system, other devices needed in surgeries, as well

UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley

Photo taken Feb. 10, 2022, shows the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley

Photo taken Feb. 10, 2022, shows the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

Japan needs stimulus steps if it raises sales tax: U.S. economic adviser

Japan needs stimulus steps if it raises sales tax: U.S. economic adviser

David Romer (R), a professor of the University of California at Berkeley, speaks in a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Finance Minister Taro Aso in Tokyo on May 19, 2016. His wife Christina Romer (2nd from R), also a UC Berkeley professor and a former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said Japan can reduce the negative effects of a consumption tax hike on the economy by taking stimulus measures if it goes ahead with the tax hike in April 2017 as planned. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo