Lyons was not chancellor when protests and encampments roiled campus following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, but was pressed repeatedly about a 2024 social media post from history professor Ussama Makdisi that said he “could have been one of those who broke the siege on October 7.”

After a federal judge in Los Angeles barred 'roving patrols' by immigration agents in seven California counties, the Trump administration asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to resume operations that lawyers for the state have argued are unconstitutional.

The Trump administration on Monday asked a federal appeals court to pause a sweeping order from a California judge that required officials to stop making immigration arrests without probable cause in the southern part of the state.