LA Times Today: Citing safety concerns, USC cancels pro-Palestinian valedictorians graduation speech [Video]

The leaders of Columbia University yesterday grilled on Capitol Hill over whether the school has been effectively dealing with anti-Semitic speech and behavior on its campus since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

And earlier, the presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania had to step down because their responses to the committee led to a P.R. disaster.

Now, another public relations nightmare here at USC, after the university rescinded an invitation to the class valedictorian to speak at graduation based on assumptions about her beliefs as an Indian-Muslim woman.

L.A. Times foreign correspondent Jaweed Kaleem joined Lisa McRee with more.