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Cornell says ex-US Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will investigate school’s response to Jane Doe’s rape allegations

CNN, WSTM, MEGAN ZEREZ , ITHACA VOICE, NY OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR By Gloria Pazmino, Maria Sole Campinoti, Holly Yan, Hanna Park, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — A former Justice Department official will delve into Cornell University’s response to a student’s allegations of gang rape as outrage over the case echoes across the country

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Nine years after the explosion of MeToo

Inside rape culture’s strong grip

CNN By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Tarana Burke thinks those asking if anything has changed since MeToo are posing the wrong question. The political organizer, who in 2006 started the hashtag that would take off in 2017 amid a mass reckoning with sexual violence, has seen it before. A high-profile episode sparks a new

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Cornell says ex-US Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will investigate school’s response to Jane Doe’s rape allegations

By Gloria Pazmino, Maria Sole Campinoti, Holly Yan, Hanna Park, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — A former Justice Department official will delve into Cornell University’s response to a student’s allegations of gang rape as outrage over the case echoes across the country – from sexual abuse survivors to students on campus and now to

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Cornell says ex-US Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will investigate school’s response to Jane Doe’s rape allegations

CNN By Gloria Pazmino, Maria Sole Campinoti, Holly Yan, Hanna Park, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — A former Justice Department official will delve into Cornell University’s response to a student’s allegations of gang rape as outrage over the case echoes across the country – from sexual abuse survivors to students on campus and now

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Caleb Flynn’s daughters send powerful message as he’s sentenced to life in prison for their mom’s murder

By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Minutes before he was sentenced Monday to life in prison for the murder of his wife, Caleb Flynn sobbed as his in-laws read letters written by his two daughters, asking him heartbreaking questions about their mother’s death.“Mommy was the perfect person, the absolute perfect person. What did she ever

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Cornell police tried to get phone records in Jane Doe’s sex assault investigation. Her lawyer says records never got to DA

By Gloria Pazmino, Holly Yan, Jessie Yeung, Isa Mudannayake, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — Newly obtained documents reviewed by CNN show Cornell University police drafted letters to wireless carriers about a week after a student now known as Jane Doe told police she had been sexually assaulted by members of the Chi Phi fraternity

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Calls for accountability grow amid a renewed investigation: Catch up on the Cornell alleged gang rape case

By Jessie Yeung, Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — Since the former Cornell University student known as Jane Doe filed a lawsuit last month alleging she had been drugged and gang raped at a fraternity house in 2024, the national storm of attention and media coverage has unveiled previously undisclosed evidence about what she says happened

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Tennessee’s outgoing prison chief had a history of execution missteps before Christa Pike, officials say

By Eduardo Cuevas, CNN (CNN) — Before the botched execution of Christa Pike, Frank Strada reportedly had a history of overseeing execution missteps in two states.Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Saturday announced Correction Commissioner Strada would step down later this month following the backlash after the attempted execution left Pike on a ventilator, unconscious in

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California woman arrested for spying for China and surveilling Taiwanese president’s son, officials say

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The FBI on Sunday arrested a 34-year-old California woman who has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent for China and allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president’s son and his family, federal officials said.Wanying “Heather” Zhang, of Irvine, allegedly surveilled a close relative of a Taiwanese government official

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The cycle of denial and shame felt by Cornell’s Jane Doe follows a typical pattern for sexual assault survivors, experts say

By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Immediately after Katiana Soenen says she was sexually assaulted as a freshman at Brown University in 2021, she struggled to understand what had happened and questioned her own actions.“I spent the first kind of like two hours after really trying to figure out if I had done something wrong

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Cornell president breaks silence amid outcry over handling of sex assault case

By Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — As outrage builds around the case involving a Cornell University student allegedly gang-raped in a fraternity house in October 2024, the university’s president has broken his silence with a statement Saturday.Here’s the latest:University president speaks out: “This is a defining moment in Cornell’s history,” Cornell’s president, Michael Kotlikoff, said

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Special prosecutor takes over Cornell alleged gang rape investigation as national outrage grows

By Holly Yan, Jessie Yeung, Gloria Pazmino, Jason Carroll, CNN (CNN) — New York’s governor chastised what she deemed a botched investigation into the alleged gang rape of a Cornell University student and vowed to take action – including changing a state law that prevents some victims from seeking justice.Gov. Kathy Hochul criticized how Cornell

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Christa Pike is on a ventilator and unconscious after surviving lethal injection. What happened?

By Eric Levenson and Ryan Young, CNN (CNN) — Christa Pike survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her via lethal injection on Wednesday, but her medical and legal future remain remarkably unclear.Pike is intubated, on a ventilator, and remains unconscious in a Nashville-area hospital, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday.Pike is receiving lifesaving care

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Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada speaks at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution on August 13 in Nashville

The lethal injection drug used in Christa Pike’s botched execution was just used in Texas. A look at the two cases

CNN By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Two scheduled executions a week apart have highlighted the ongoing debate over the practice of lethal injection in the US, with both using the same drug but yielding dramatically different outcomes. Texas on Wednesday executed 46-year-old Jamaal Howard, a man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk more

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