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Trump Administration Cuts UCLA Funding Over Claims of Antisemitism, Chancellor Says

The university is the latest to be targeted by the federal government over claims of antisemitism and bias on campus.

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A pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, in April 2024. Last year, U.C.L.A. was the site of one of the nation’s biggest protests against the war in Gaza.
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University of California Settles With Jewish Students Over U.C.L.A. Protests

Jewish students and a professor said the university had allowed a hostile protest. After the settlement was announced, the Department of Justice separately said it had found the university violated civil rights laws.

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Pro-Palestinian students at U.C.L.A. also sued the university after a violent encounter at the protest encampment.
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Under Trump, Hospitals Limit Transgender Care for Minors, Even in Blue States

Two prominent medical centers in California recently announced they would stop treatments, citing pressure from the Trump administration.

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Protesters objected to the closing of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
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Jewel Thais-Williams, Whose Nightclub Catch One Celebrated ‘Queer Black Joy,’ Dies at 86

Par :Ash Wu
Catch One, which she opened in Los Angeles in 1973 in the face of local animosity, became a glittering sanctuary for a largely shunned community.

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Jewel Thais-Williams in 2015 at her nightclub, Jewel’s Catch One. She sold the venue that year.
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