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An upstate New York prosecutor this week reopened an investigation into a 2024 incident at Cornell University in which a former undergraduate student filed a lawsuit alleging she was drugged and raped by seven men at the Chi Phi fraternity house.Here is a timeline of key events in the case based on ABC News reporting, police documents, official statements from Cornell and the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office, and a […]

New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday said she issued an executive order to appoint Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor for the alleged “gang rape” that took place at a Cornell fraternity in 2024. “Newly released information continues to raise serious questions about the investigation conducted by the Cornell Police Department and the decision by the Tompkins County District Attorney not to prosecute an alleged sexual assault on […]

(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is changing its policy on which officers can stop vehicles, and what is required to do when they're stopped, according to sources familiar with the change.Formal guidance was issued to officers this week, sources said. This comes after several high-profile vehicle stops ended in shootings.Only those ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers who have completed the relevant training may participate in the stops, according […]

(NEW YORK) -- Ernesto Alvarez paid off about $70,000 of credit card debt in just over a year. The fix: a plan that combined his credit card debt into a single loan.Alvarez, 55, said he repaid debt on 12 to 15 different credit cards through a plan with the nonprofit Money Management International, which helped him negotiate lower interest rates and consolidated the debt.After repaying his debt last year, Alvarez […]

(NEW YORK) -- The family of Renee Good filed two federal civil lawsuits Thursday against the U.S. government and several top federal officials over Good's fatal shooting by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis earlier this year.The lawsuits were filed nearly 10 months after Good, a Minneapolis mother of three, was in the driver's seat of her Honda Pilot in the middle of a residential street when an […]

Getty Images A helicopter carrying five people crashed into the water off the coast of Catalina Island in California on Wednesday evening, killing two of those on board, sending two others to the hospital and prompting a search in the water for the last one."This remains an active scene with search and rescue operations continuing throughout the night," the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.Two of four people who were […]

When Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk climbs aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop the Falcon 9 rocket that will take him and the other three members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 to the International Space Station, he'll bring a more than 100-year-old pocket watch.Kutryk, a fourth-generation Ukrainian Canadian, says he's bringing the timepiece because "I need a watch to tell time," but also because it's been a family heirloom since […]

During a 2025 hearing at Cornell University, an unidentified female former student who alleges she was gang raped at a fraternity house in 2024 described her harrowing night at the house surrounded by multiple men: "I felt like bait. I felt like lions around me. It just was a totally debilitating place to be in."Her description is included in a heavily-redacted 99-page report, obtained by ABC News, that was prepared […]

(NEW YORK) -- The execution of the only woman on Tennessee's death row was paused at the 11th hour as a federal appeals court reviews the case.The state has since asked the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate the appeals court's stay.Christa Pike, 50, was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday at 10 a.m. CT. She was sentenced to death after being convicted of the 1995 murder of […]