As John Mulaney said, “It is so much easier not to do things than to do them, that you would do anything is totally remarkable.”
Is it lazy writing to start with a quote?

Actress Mayim Bialik announced on Twitter on Thursday afternoon that she will not be speaking at the commencement ceremony for the College of Letters and Sciences.

A man charged with murdering a UCLA student in 2015 told police officers in an interview shortly after he was arrested that his friend murdered the student, video evidence revealed Thursday.

Several audience members at “Pang!,” a series of three live radio plays, sit around a kitchen table onstage instead of in their seats.
Before, during and after the show, the play’s director sits down at the table and encourages the audience members to discuss food insecurity, housing issues and other core themes of the play.

California legislators passed a bill early Saturday morning to protect the state’s undocumented residents from federal immigration authorities.
California’s state Senate voted 27-11 to approve Senate Bill 54, unofficially known as the “sanctuary state” bill, which limits state and local authorities from working with federal agencies to enforce immigration law.

This post was updated Sept. 12 at 4:25 p.m.
UCLA tied with UC Berkeley for the No. 1 spot in the 2018 U.S. News & World Report’s list of top public universities nationwide released Monday night.

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to remove Columbus Day from the city calendar and made the second Monday in October a holiday to honor indigenous people.

This post was updated Aug. 28 at 3:37 p.m.
The University of California’s plan to update its payroll system will cost millions more than originally estimated and is several years behind schedule, according to a state audit released Thursday.

Little will change in Los Angeles’ plans for the Olympic Games despite Monday’s announcement that it would host the games in 2028, four years later than its original bid.