Good morning! It’s Monday, and I’ve been fascinated by this video about Los Angeles’s steepest streets. Onto the five USC, LA, and California stories you need to know for today.

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Conservative gadfly Megyn Kelly says her identity as a woman is being “scrubbed right out of existence” because the USC Song Girls rebranded as USC Song Leaders. USC said the name change will help “include all students,” but the former Fox News host retorted that the team might have to start using gender neutral bathrooms.

Tomoki Chien / Morning, Trojan

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USC inflates tuition for students with divorced or separated parents, a new lawsuit against 40 U.S. colleges alleges. The suit claims that, in a scheme with College Board, the schools unfairly consider assets of noncustodial parents to artificially inflate family income when determining financial aid rewards.

Michael T. Nietzel / Forbes

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Riverside County deputies said they thwarted an assassination attempt at Donald Trump’s Saturday rally in Coachella. Cops arrested 49-year-old Vem Miller on suspicion of illegal possession of firearms — and also called him “a lunatic” who claims to be a sovereign citizen. Miller said the accusations were “complete bullshit.”

Matthew Ormseth / Los Angeles Times

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Irvine’s police department spent $153,000 on a tricked-out Cybertruck, except it won’t actually be used for patrols. Instead, the department plans to show it off to kids during drug prevention events to prove that cops are “like normal people” — because nothing says “everyman” like a garish, hulking Tesla.

Kyle Melnick / The Washington Post

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It’s over. An untimely interception doomed USC football to a 33-30 overtime loss to Penn State on Saturday, dashing any hopes of making it to the College Football Playoff. “It’s a gut punch,” said head coach Lincoln Riley. “No doubt about it.”

Ryan Kartje / Los Angeles Times