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Record label Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is taking USC to court for using unlicensed musical tracks in promotional videos on social media accounts linked to the university, including USC Athletics. The lawsuit alleged, despite repeated warnings starting in 2021, the university allowed 170 unlicensed recordings in 283 social media videos on 30 different USC-affiliated social media accounts. SME alongside subsidiary…

The University of Southern California on Wednesday hiked tuition by more than $3,000 for the upcoming academic year, pushing the total cost of attendance to nearly $100,000.  For the 2025-2026 academic year, tuition will be $3,356 more expensive than the 2024-2025 cycle, according to the University’s Cost of Attendance webpage.  In 2024, the U.S. News and World Report ranked the…

The Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced it will visit 10 university campuses that have experienced “anti-Semitic incidents since Oct. 2023.”

Three college students, including a 19-year-old from USC, were killed in the crash that day before Thanksgiving in the Bay Area community of Piedmont.

While this is the first coyote sighting in recent years within the University Park area, it’s just one of many living throughout urban Los Angeles

Seth John and his research team tested dirt in Eaton Fire burn scar areas for lead, the results were promising. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on February 7, 2025.   

Before homeowners start rebuilding, the Environmental Protection Agency is focused on removing all lithium-ion batteries from Palisades burn sites. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on February 7th, 2025. 

Weeks after the Eaton Fire burned through Altadena, USC researchers were curious if there were high levels of lead in the soil. Here’s what they found.

A gang member pleaded no contest to first-degree murder charges in the killing of a USC student and jazz drummer during an attempted robbery. 

Even before the teams are determined, fans are paying top dollar to be at the Superdome on Super Bowl Sunday.

USC’s Daily Trojan, a student newspaper based at the university since 1912, will no longer print daily for the first time in it’s history. 

The University of Southern California’s historic Daily Trojan student-run newspaper will no longer be printed daily.

The Daily Trojan will be seeing some changes due to budget cuts across the university. This video was broadcast on the NBC4 News at 6 a.m. on Dec. 17, 2024. 

The USC Homelessness Policy Research Institute found that cities with more public housing options have lower rates of homelessness. 

A new study by USC found that cities with more public housing had lower rates of homelessness. Camilla Rambaldi reports for NBC4 at 6 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2024. 

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is gathering information that on a Cybertruck crash that left three students dead, one of them a student athlete at USC. Macy Jenkins reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Dec. 6, 2024.

Black and Latino communities are facing growing risks of losing access to medical services as more pharmacies across the U.S. closed in the recent years. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. 

Black and Latino communities are facing growing risks of losing access to medical services as a high amount of pharmacies across the U.S. closed.

A warning has been issued for international students at USC, urging them to return to campus by January 13. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News at 6 a.m. on Dec. 5, 2024.