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Morning, Trojan.

Seven stories for today, Sept. 15

đź“Ť On campus

  1. USC transfer students, who often miss out on social events designed specifically for freshmen, have reported struggling with loneliness and a lack of community. (Staff report / Annenberg Media)

🌴 In L.A.

  1. The Sheriff’s Department searched County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl’s home on Wednesday morning, acting on a warrant tied to a probe of a nonprofit that one of Kuehl’s close friends runs. The search reignited claims that Sheriff Alex Villanueva — whom Kuehl has fiercely criticized in the past — is using a secretive public corruption unit to target his political enemies. (Alene Tchekmedyian / Los Angeles Times)

  1. A 15-year-old died in what police believe to be a fentanyl overdose at Bernstein High School in Hollywood. She and three other juveniles consumed what they thought were Percocet pills, which investigators believe they bought at Lexington Park less than a mile away from campus. (Jaysha Patel and Carlos Granda / ABC 7)

  1. The county board of supervisors directed its attorneys to draft a series of gun control ordinances which include a ban on the sale of .50-caliber handguns and the creation of “buffer zones” between gun shops and schools, daycare centers and parks. If passed, the laws would only apply to unincorporated county areas. (City News Service)

  1. Law enforcement officials arrested 141 people across Southern California in a weeklong operation targeting online child sex abuse. (Libor Jany / Los Angeles Times)

🌅 California

  1. California sued Amazon on Wednesday, alleging that the company illegally penalizes merchants for offering products at lower prices on competing sites. (Christine Mai-Duc and Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal)

  1. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that requires social media companies to publicly post their policies regarding hate speech, disinformation, harassment and extremism, and report data on their enforcement of those policies. The bill is expected to draw heavy backlash from the tech industry. (Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill)

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