The U.S. Senate gave the House of Representatives another chance to vote in favor of a plan to bail out the banking industry.

The Campus Organic Gardens donates the harvests to local food pantries. This year, volunteers have started selling excess produce at the campus farmers market and gained an important customer8212;Chartwells.

On Wednesday, panelists at the Hinckley Institute of Politics tackled this often taboo topic in a forum titled "B(l)ack to the Future," which examined the social and political significance of the candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama, the first black candidate on a major party presidential ticket.

What began as a standard meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Utah General Assembly became a heated debate Tuesday night as student representatives considered how to appropriate funds to a political student group.

President George W. Bush reappointed U professor Thure Cerling to a discussion panel that reviews the efforts to create a nuclear waste repository in Nevada.

With only 33 days left until Election Day, more than 50 candidates from state races were abuzz on the Union Plaza on Wednesday, hoping to reach student voters and prove their merit as the candidate who will best represent the U.

Vice-presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin will debate tonight at 7 p.m., in what will be one of Palin's first live, unscripted, give-and-take appearances on national TV.

The major party contenders for Utah attorney general sparred over school vouchers, crime, ethics and civil liberties in a feisty debate sponsored by the Hinckley Institute of Politics on Tuesday.

Josh Voland took in the scene: eight giant messages left in paint, splashed across the sidewalk in front of the Heritage Center. They all said the same mysterious words that have spread like wildfire across the U for the past three days.

Some colleges and universities are using Facebook and other social networking Web sites to evaluate prospective students.