Good morning. It’s Friday, and I’m reading about how a landslide in San Clemente indefinitely shut down Metrolink and Amtrak service between Orange and San Diego counties. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know for today.

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The University of California tabled a plan that would allow undocumented students to work campus jobs, noting that the proposal’s legal pathway is “not viable at this time” and “carries significant risks” for the university. The Biden administration had quietly objected to the plan, which is at odds with federal law, and UC officials had grown increasingly skeptical that they could enact the policy without facing lawsuits. The decision means some 4,000 undocumented students can’t hold campus jobs, including paid fellowships and residencies that some need to graduate.

Blake Jones / Politico

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A gunman fired on a moving Metrolink train in Antelope Valley, hospitalizing two people and riddling the train with bullet holes Wednesday evening. Authorities said the two injured people were standing outside the train when they were shot, one in the hip and the other in the calf. Their injuries weren’t life-threatening, and sheriff’s deputies are still searching for the shooter.

Anthony De Leon / Los Angeles Times

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LA County will pay $5 million to an election software executive who was arrested in 2022 for allegedly mishandling voter data in a case the district attorney dropped just five weeks later, citing “potential bias in the presentation” of evidence. Eugene Yu, 66, co-founder of Konnech, was swept up in a right-wing conspiracy theory after the 2020 election that accused his company of storing voter data on Chinese servers. Yu repeatedly denied the claims.

Stuart A. Thompson / The New York Times

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In-N-Out Burger will close a location for the first time in its 75-year history, citing a crime wave at its sole Oakland restaurant. Since 2019, police have logged 1,335 incidents in the vicinity of the burger joint, which sits in a busy area near the Oakland Airport. That number includes 1,174 car break-ins. One nearby employee described seeing two people get out of their car and rob the entire drive-thru lane at gunpoint last year. “We feel the frequency and severity of the crimes being encountered by our customers and associates leave us no alternative,” an In-N-Out executive said.

Staff / Associated Press

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Wedding ring bearers are typically cute toddlers. Maybe a tiny dog, if you’re feeling creative. But for the price of $1,200 plus travel expenses, one Long Beach-based falconer will deploy a bird of prey to swoop in through your ceremony and deliver the rings. Jonathan Gonzalez, one of several falconers in the U.S. that’ve started offering wedding services, said he does about four or five weddings a year — and all have gone off without a hitch. Clients can choose between Marty the lanner falcon or Ollie and Martin, the Eurasian eagle-owls. “They have never gotten poop on a dress,” Gonzalez said.

James Fanelli / The Wall Street Journal

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