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Two investigations are underway into a former Cornell University student's allegations that she was raped at a fraternity house in 2024 -- one to determine whether criminal charges should be brought and another to examine how the university handled her case.Newly obtained videos reviewed by ABC News show members of Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity being questioned by university police in the weeks after the alleged assault.One of the video shows […]

A California couple faces multiple felony charges in what prosecutors called an unprecedented case of child abuse involving over a dozen children born via surrogacy in their Los Angeles County mansion.Husband-and-wife Guojun Xuan, 66, and Silvia Zhang, 39, were arrested at their Arcadia residence on Tuesday following a 17-month investigation, according to the Los Angeles County sheriff.Prosecutors allege that the couple ran a "house of horrors" where multiple live-in nannies […]

Getty Images / Stock Image Families of Sept. 11 victims are expected to ask a federal appeals court on Wednesday to order the government to release documents that they say tie the Saudi Arabian government to the plot to hijack airplanes and crash them into New York and D.C.With past presidents in attendance at this year’s 9/11 commemoration in New York, several family members openly faulted the U.S. government for […]

Getty Images / Stock Image Tropical Storm Isaias, which is churning hundreds of miles south of the Gulf Coast, is expected to rapidly strengthen in the next 24 to 48 hours before making landfall on Friday as a hurricane.The storm on Wednesday morning was about 580 miles south of the Mississippi River. It may become the first Atlantic hurricane of the season, the latest first hurricane on record, on Thursday.Rain […]

In this photo released by the Bell County Sheriff's Office, U.S. Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who is charged with murder in the Fort Hood shootings, is seen in a booking photo after being moved to the Bell County Jail on April 9, 2010 in Belton, Texas. Hasan was transferred early April 9, 2010 from Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio to Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas. […]

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 […]