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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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The FBI on Sunday arrested 34-year-old California woman Wanying “Heather” Zhang who has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent for China and allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president’s son and his family

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

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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

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

CNN 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,

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Outrage grows over Cornell sexual assault investigation as governor rebukes DA’s handling of the case. Here’s the latest

CNN By Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — Outrage is building as the case involving a Cornell University student allegedly gang raped in a fraternity house in 2024 continues to garner national attention, with the state’s governor vowing she “will not allow anyone to sweep this case under the rug.” Here’s the latest: ‘I want the

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A sign at Cornell University in Ithaca

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

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Media witnesses recount the moments before the execution of Christa Pike was halted on September 30

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

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