Good morning. It’s Tuesday, and I hope you’ve had a fabulous start to the school year. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles, and California stories you need to know for today.

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USC said it’s handing data about its Chinese international students to a congressional committee that in March opened an inquiry into “espionage and intellectual property theft” by foreign students in the U.S. The committee is seeking general statistics, not personal information.

Franco Gutierrez / Daily Trojan

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It’s the season of specious college rankings, and the first results are in: USC is the 27th-best college in America, but #1 for “student life,” according to Niche. “Celebrities, parties, networking,” wrote one reviewer. “Everyone is dripped out.”

Niche

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USC’s budget crisis has, for the last year, largely spared undergraduate academic programs from known direct cuts. That’s starting to change. In one recent example, the School of Dramatic Arts scrapped its traditional fall semester play for Bachelor of Arts students in favor of a staged reading.

Zachary Whalen / Daily Trojan

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Earlier this month, masked immigration agents opened fire on a truck carrying a man they sought to detain in San Bernardino. Now, his attorneys are urging local officials to investigate the first known instance of immigration agents firing weapons during an operation in California.

Melissa Gomez / Los Angeles Times

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Summer in the U.S. is getting hotter and longer, and the California coast has seen some of the most acute effects. In the neighborhoods surrounding USC, summer is 24 days longer than it was three decades ago. In San Francisco, it’s 42. Enter any ZIP code at the link below to see how much longer summer is.

Kasha Patel and Naema Ahmed / The Washington Post