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Lanny Cordola is a guitarist who ran a school in Kabul designed to teach music to children in war-torn areas. He's now trying to get his students out of Afghanistan.

There is uproar over the newly designed logo for the University of California. Students and alumni around the state are up in arms, saying the new logo is ugly and simplistic and does not convey the heritage and prestige of the institution.

The International Olympic Committee will hold an emergency conference call for members of its Executive Board on Tuesday to discuss the latest revelations about Russian doping in international sport.

German architect Frei Otto has been named the 2015 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The announcement was moved up from March 23, because Otto died on Monday at the age of 89.

Federal water managers have announced the first shortage in the Colorado River system, which supplies water and hydropower to 40 million people and countless farms in western states.

To kick off the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Legalities of Being event at the Normal Theatre will honor the work of Fidencio Fifield-Perez.

The Titanokorys gainesi, which is now extinct, was a 1 1/2-foot-long sea animal — gigantic for its time — with a large protective shell over its head, a toothed mouth and a pair of spiny claws.

Harvard University says it will stop investing its $41.9 billion endowment in the fossil fuel industry, citing the threat of climate change. Activists have called on the university to do so for years.

The FBI is asking the American public to review the new information and come forward with any information about the possible identity of the bomb-maker.

The U.S. Soccer Federation is offering the men's and women's senior national teams the same pay structure, years after the women's team filed a major lawsuit over equal pay concerns.