The Muslim holy month of Ramadan started Friday as students prepared for a month of prayer and fasting together with others on campus. Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar, involves fasting without food or water from the break of dawn until the sun sets below the horizon and praying several times a day. Read more...

LAS VEGAS “”mdash; If you volunteer for a presidential campaign in a swing state like Nevada, get ready for duets with aging pop singers, rabid dogs and crazed constituents. Read more...

Twenty years after Geoffrey Kimbrough ended his career dancing ballet on center stage, the 50-year-old undergraduate says he feels invisible. “I’m old enough to be your father, and it’s the same with everybody else in class. Read more...

Voter registration forms sitting on tables or clutched in the hands of club representatives have become a common sight to students traveling up and down Bruin Walk and represent a cooperative effort from several student groups to get students to register to vote in the Nov. Read more...

A week after their rally at UCLA, University of California service workers took their concerns to UC Berkeley on Friday, where 16 people were cited while rallying for higher wages and better opportunities for over 7,000 service workers. Read more...

City council closes meeting The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the Beverly Hills City Council violated California’s open-meeting law when it refused to allow three opponents of a proposed hotel to speak at an Aug. Read more...

Voting, as we are so often told, is a vital and divine right in a democracy. But registering to vote is often a frustrating experience. And once you are registered, you have to find your polling place or use the arcane absentee voting process. Read more...