The Daily Bruin covers breaking news relevant to the UCLA community as it happens. This page includes coverage of the July 2025 trial between plaintiff Gordon Klein, a UCLA accounting lecturer, and defendants Antonio Bernardo, dean of the Anderson School of Management, and the UC Board of Regents.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California State Legislature reached a final state budget agreement June 24 that will not reduce UC funding for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

A UCLA lecturer suing UC administrators for over $22 million will see his case go to trial Tuesday.
Gordon Klein, a continuing lecturer in accounting, filed a lawsuit against Antonio Bernardo, the dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and the UC Board of Regents in September 2021.

A UCLA student is running to be California’s next governor.
Carolina Buhler, a rising fourth-year earth and environmental science student, announced Monday that she will enter California’s 2026 gubernatorial race as a Democrat.

A UCLA professor of geography was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in April.
Marilyn Raphael is a leading scientist in Antarctic climate and ocean atmospheric interactions around Antarctica, said Laura Landrum, a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

This post was updated June 26 at 6:00 p.m.
The United States Department of Justice launched an investigation against the UC on Thursday, citing concerns that the University may have engaged in race and sex-based employment discrimination.

The UCLA Police Department arrested one person for the possession of weapons near the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center following a domestic violence incident Wednesday.
The suspect possessed a gun and multiple illegal knives that UCPD recovered upon apprehending the suspect, according to a UCPD Instagram post.