UCLA researchers and policy experts said United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lacks qualifications for his role and could derail American research and public health efforts.

Artificial intelligence experts at UCLA said AI deregulation creates cultural challenges and has significant business implications following a Trump administration executive order.
One of President Donald Trump’s executive orders – executive order 14179 – passed in January and revoked previous AI regulation policies that he described as “barriers to American AI innovation.” Titled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence,” the order places a high emphasis on global leadership and competition and deregulating AI.

This post was updated May 20 at 11:07 p.m.
Both of California’s United States Senators condemned the Trump administration’s revocations of student visas in a Tuesday letter to U.S.

UCLA researchers and policy experts expressed concerns about the qualifications of new Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin.
Since his appointment, Zeldin has overseen the rollback of 31 environmental regulations and has attempted to revise the EPA’s 2009 findings that greenhouse gases endanger public health, according to an EPA press release.

Stefano Fendrich had only been editor in chief of the Daily Trojan for a few weeks when he received bad news.
The University of Southern California’s Student Life office told him the paper had a budget deficit of $80,000, print was being cut from daily to three days a week and his staff would no longer be paid, Fendrich said.

When Sara Graves wakes up every morning, she hopes the federal grants supporting her climate change research have not been cut.
Graves – a doctoral student in atmospheric and oceanic sciences – works as a researcher at the UCLA Center for Climate Science, where she focuses on water conservation efforts, along with other climate-related research.

This post was updated May 16 at 12:35 a.m.
Students said UCLA should fight back against the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education.
The United States Department of Education has withheld funding from Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Northwestern University, Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania since the beginning of the Trump administration.