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A photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell shown during a 2020 news conference by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Credit: AP\/John Minchillo<\/p>\nA photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell shown during a 2020 news conference by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Credit: AP\/John Minchillo<\/p>\n
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Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s lie about being a UC Berkeley lecturer on an employment form for Bear Stearns helped launch his finance career. (Daily Cal<\/a>)<\/p>\n Fewer students at UC Berkeley and other UC campuses are taking computer science, with UC San Diego, the sole campus to have launched an AI major, the only one to buck the trend. (SF Chronicle<\/a>)<\/p>\n After President Trump signed an executive order for an AI project to boost scientific discoveries, Berkeley Lab is working on AI integration in particle accelerators, imaging data and biotechnology research. (Daily Cal<\/a>)<\/p>\n Graduate student organizers in the\u00a0UC Berkeley\u00a0School of Social Welfare\u00a0began a tuition strike Jan. 19 in response to \u201cgrave concerns\u201d about recent layoffs in the program. (Daily Cal<\/a>)<\/p>\n A musical theater dream team of Sara Bareilles, Sarah Ruhl and Michael Arden will come together to collaborate on the world-premiere adaptation of Meg Wolitzer\u2019s novel \u201cThe Interestings.\u201d\u00a0(SF Chronicle<\/a>)<\/p>\n A review of Berkeley High\u2019s annual student-run production of \u201cOur Monologues.\u201d (Berkeley High Jacket<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n Wondering why there were more cops in Berkeley Wednesday? Officers from around the county had come for an operation to pull over drivers caught breaking the law in \u201chigh-collision areas.\u201d (Berkeley Scanner<\/a>)<\/p>\n A former UC Berkeley student and tech start-up founder, G\u00f6k\u00e7e G\u00fcven, 26, of Turkey, is accused of bilking venture capitalists of $7 million in seed money. (Patch<\/a>, Inc<\/a>, Daily Cal<\/a>)<\/p>\n Two UC Berkeley students who developed an app to help freshmen sell their extra meal swipes, and connect them with upperclassmen looking for less expensive meals, were told them to shut down the app by the university. (KTVU<\/a>)<\/p>\n “*” indicates required fields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell shown during a 2020 news conference by the U.S. attorney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[8754,143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-175870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-berkeley-wire","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}