Good morning. It’s Thursday, and I’m reading about the best (and worst) food at Dodger Stadium. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles, and California stories you need to know for today.

1.

Students looking to stage a by-the-book protest at USC must navigate a Byzantine maze of vague regulations and required permits — that sometimes conflict with each other. The amorphous rules make it fairly easy for the university to shut down any event it wants to.

Staff / Annenberg Media

2.

One of India’s most powerful businessmen who also served as a USC Trustee died earlier this month. Ratan N. Tata ran the Tata Group, a behemoth conglomerate that owned companies such as Jaguar and Land Rover.

Jonathan Kandell / The New York Times

3.

Tomorrow will be a traffic nightmare in LA. Tens of thousands of fans will descend on Dodger Stadium for Game 1 of the World Series around 5 p.m. Then the Lakers play at the Crypto.com arena, the East LA Classic kicks off at SoFi Stadium, David Gilmour rocks the Intuit Dome, and USC probably loses to Rutgers at the Coliseum.

Scott Reiff / ABC7

4.

LA City Council candidate Ysabel Jurado is still in hot water after saying “Fuck the police” at a public meet-and-greet — but it turns out one of her opponent’s aides is the one who baited her into saying it. Jurado brushed her comment off as “just a lyric.”

David Zahniser and Dakota Smith / Los Angeles Times

5.

A team of UC Berkeley chemists developed a powder that can suck carbon dioxide out of the air. Just a half pound of “COF-999” — which is made with common and inexpensive materials — can absorb the same amount of carbon dioxide annually as one tree. “This is a game-changer,” the team said.

Julie Johnson / San Francisco Chronicle