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Cornell University announced on Tuesday that former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates has been retained to lead a "comprehensive independent review" into how the school "prevents and responds to sexual harassment, sexual assault and related misconduct on campus" amid allegations of a fraternity house gang rape.The announcement was made by the newly formed Special Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees.Yates is a partner in the international […]

A proposed class-action lawsuit filed by consumers against Starbucks on Oct. 2 in Seattle accuses the coffee giant of selling "sugar-free" beverages that, the suit says, "contain substantial amounts of sugar."The lawsuit, filed by plaintiffs represented by Hagens Berman law firm, alleges Starbucks "sells eight beverages whose names begin with the words 'Sugar-Free,' even though they contain between 13 and 21 grams of sugar per venti-size serving."The suit claims that […]

One day after a campuswide alert notified students about a reported rape at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024, the school's police department received a tip from an anonymous caller saying that the Chi Phi fraternity's leadership asked a potential witness to stay quiet because "the reputation of all involved and the frat would be ruined" if details of the incident spread across campus, according to the school records reviewed […]

A school bus filled with children rolled over in a multi-vehicle crash Monday morning in central Florida, killing two and injuring dozens of others, according to authorities.The bus was traveling to a high school and carrying 39 passengers, including 37 high schoolers, the bus driver and the driver's 9-year-old daughter, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a press conference Monday morning.Two people died in the crash, including a tenth-grade […]

A man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly posing as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent and intimidating Brazilian nationals who were voting at a poll site in Miami, investigators said.Danilo Alves Silva was allegedly dressed in a blue "ICE raid jacket," a blue ICE hat, sunglasses, blue jeans and tactical style boots and had his face covered in a mask when he was seen walking between polling […]

The Pentagon announced Monday that Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, will be executed by firing squad, marking the first U.S. military execution in more than 60 years.The shooting left 13 people dead and wounded 32 others.Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended the execution, and it was approved by President Donald Trump.The […]

A New York entrepreneur who advertised online that she could help save people's homes from foreclosure found herself facing charges in a Staten Island courtroom Monday.Lauren Taliento, the president of JT Homesavers, is facing a 46-count indictment accusing her of grand larceny, petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. She has pleaded not guilty.One of Taliento's accusers, who is not part of the criminal indictment, was featured in a […]

The mother of a 7-year-old Chicago girl is demanding "justice" after her child was fatally stabbed over the weekend in what appears to have been an unprovoked street attack.The mother of the young victim broke down in tears and collapsed to her knees during a community vigil on Sunday on a sidewalk in the South Side Chicago neighborhood where her daughter was attacked."My daughter's death should not be left like […]

More than 35 million people are under heat alerts on Sunday afternoon as a dangerous multi-day October heat wave continues across nearly all of California.Temperatures are expected to soar up to 20 degrees above normal for this time of year, into the 90s and 100s, from Northern California, including the San Francisco Bay Area, to the Mexico border.In some areas of California, especially urban areas, warm nights will provide little […]