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Los Angeles, CA - May 02: Authorities breach and break up a the Pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA as o on Thursday, May 2, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

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Granada Hills, CA - May 02: A parent holds a "Bring Back School Police," sign during a meeting discussing child safety in the district at Patrick Henry Middle School on Thursday, May 2, 2024 in Granada Hills, CA. L.A. school district holds a regional safety meeting with a fair number of angry and concerned parents over the safety of their children at school. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)

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FILE - Pro-Israel demonstrators gather for the "Bring Them Home Now" rally outside the Columbia University, April 26, 2024, in New York. Pro-Palestinian protesters have dominated university quads in the last two weeks, shutting down colleges and clashing with riot police. But there’s been a notable scarcity of student rallies in solidarity with Israelis. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

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Los Angeles, CA - May 05: LAPD officers in riot gear exit USC after they cleared out a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on Sunday, May 5, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

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RIVERSIDE, CA - APRIL 7, 2021: UC Riverside is grappling with allegations of campus funding inequities on April 7, 2021 in Riverside, California.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Huntington Beach, CA - April 20: The sunset illuminates one of thousands of creatures known as by-the-wind-sailors that have been washing ashore Southern California beaches, including Dog Beach in Huntington Beach Thursday, April 20, 2023. The oval-shaped, flat creatures with tiny blue tentacles may look like little jellyfish but are in fact hydroids called Velella velella, more commonly known as "by-the-wind sailors." The invertebrates have been washing ashore at Crystal Cove in Newport Beach, and the sailing bodies have been spotted as far north as Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San Francisco. They've also been spotted in San Clemente, Manhattan Beach and along other Southern California beaches.(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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BYRON, CA APRIL 18, 2024 - Morniing light bathes the Banks pumping plant on Thursday, April 18, 2024 in Byron, Calif. (Paul Kuroda / For The Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - April 29: Avroh, Maya and Maryam, left to right, are three young plaintiffs who have sued the EPA, and poses for a portrait near the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California where a hearing for the lawsuit took place on Monday, April 29, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

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Artist Kevin Kresse, is shown with a clay bust of Johnny Cash, April 23, 2024 in Little Rock, Ark. Kresse's full sculpture of Cash will be unveiled at the U.S. Capitol as part of the Statuary Hall collection, later this year. (AP Photo/Mike Pesoli)

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