

Politics Sep 14

Authorities plan to seal off the campus' central hub, Sproul Plaza, and create a perimeter around several buildings, including where Ben Shapiro, a former editor of Breitbart News, was set to speak to a sold-out, 1,000-person audience.
By Associated Press
Nation Aug 28

BERKELEY, Calif. — An anti-hate rally was disrupted when scores of anarchists wearing black clothing and masks stormed the demonstration in Berkeley and attacked several supporters of President Donald Trump. But police were able to head off any wider violence.
By Paul Elias and Jocelyn Gecker, Associated Press
Nation Apr 23

A legal brouhaha at the University of California, Berkeley over rescheduling Ann Coulter’s speech shines a spotlight on an unanswered First Amendment question.
By Kamala Kelkar
Education Feb 02

President Trump suggests university could lose federal funds after California campus is latest to be inflamed by protests -- reportedly fueled by visiting mob from off the campus -- over appearances by the Breitbart writer and provocateur.
By Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
Dec 24

By Joshua Barajas
Tensions mounted in a St. Louis suburb Wednesday morning, after a Berkeley, Missouri police officer fatally shot an 18-year-old black man who pointed a handgun at him late Tuesday. Following the shooting, the dozens of protesters that descended onto the…
Oct 16

By Spencer Michels
Fifty years ago this month, long before the Vietnam War, students on the U.C. Berkeley campus ignited protests over a ban on political activity -- a student movement that would morph into the huge, confrontational demonstrations of the early 1970s…
Thousands of children were kidnapped during a civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s, but new DNA procedures are helping reunite parents with their now grown children.
Exploring the Psychology of Wealth, 'Pernicious' Effects of Economic Inequality…
Jun 20

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