{"id":79436,"date":"2026-10-02T05:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/hochul-to-address-cornell-university-case-after-appointing-leticia-james-to-investigate-alleged-gang-rape-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:55:47","slug":"hochul-to-address-cornell-university-case-after-appointing-leticia-james-to-investigate-alleged-gang-rape-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/hochul-to-address-cornell-university-case-after-appointing-leticia-james-to-investigate-alleged-gang-rape-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul to address Cornell University case after appointing Leticia James to investigate alleged gang-rape \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Hochul said she no longer has faith in the local district attorney\u2019s ability to handle the case, which has restarted a national conversation about sexual assault on college campuses<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\"><strong>Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, has named New York attorney general Letitia James as special prosecutor to investigate an alleged gang-rape at Cornell University<\/strong> in 2024, saying she had lost faith in the local district attorney\u2019s ability to handle the case.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Both Hochul and James are due to speak today<\/strong> to provide an update on the investigation following the attorney general\u2019s appointment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/oct\/02\/cornell-university-leticia-james-christa-pike-death-penalty-donald-trump-us-jobs-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Hochul said she no longer has faith in the local district attorney\u2019s ability to handle the case, which has restarted a national conversation about sexual assault on college campuses Sign up for the Breaking News US email The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, has named New York attorney general Letitia James as special &#8230; <a title=\"Hochul to address Cornell University case after appointing Leticia James to investigate alleged gang-rape \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/hochul-to-address-cornell-university-case-after-appointing-leticia-james-to-investigate-alleged-gang-rape-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hochul to address Cornell University case after appointing Leticia James to investigate alleged gang-rape \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}