Cornell pauses frat parties as assault case builds pressure

Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff announced plans to strengthen campus safety, including suspending fraternity parties, after sexual assault allegations from a former student roiled the Ivy League school and attracted national attention.

“It is clear that women on our campus continue to question whether they are safe,” Kotlikoff said in a statement Tuesday. “We must meet this moment by acknowledging where we have fallen short and taking meaningful action.”

The move suspends all parties and social events at houses within Cornell’s Interfraternity Council for the rest of the academic year. Any fraternity that violates the ban will face immediate emergency suspension, according to the president’s announcement.

The plans amount to Cornell’s most sweeping changes yet to its response to sexual assault cases, as pressure builds on the university following the former student’s allegations.

—Bloomberg News

The evolution of Kimberly Guilfoyle: From California political ties to US ambassador

In 2004, Kimberly Guilfoyle told Harper’s Bazaar, in a piece that ran with a now infamous photo of her and then-husband Gov. Gavin Newsom on a carpet in the Getty family mansion, that Newsom worried “his political career is over any minute.”

But, she also told the magazine, she could “absolutely” see the then-San Francisco mayor one day being elected as president of the United States. “I’d gladly vote for him,” said the 35-year-old legal analyst and prosecutor then known as Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom.

This week, it is Guilfoyle staring down the possible end of her political career, as Newsom prepares to leave the governor’s office and will likely launch that long-envisioned run for president.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Guilfoyle, now the U.S. ambassador to Greece, asked Eric Deters, a former Kentucky congressional candidate and donor to President Donald Trump, to pay her $100,000 American Express bill in exchange for access to White House officials. She also accepted luxury business travel trips paid for by Greek business leaders who were lobbying the U.S. for contracts.

—The Sacramento Bee

Duane Davis sentenced to 40 years in killing of Tupac Shakur

LAS VEGAS — The man who organized and set in motion the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur learned his fate Tuesday, 30 years after the deadly shooting near the Las Vegas Strip. Duane Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for the 1996 murder of Shakur.

Shakur was shot Sept. 7, 1996, at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane, near the Strip. He died Sept. 13 at University Medical Center. It wasn’t until 2023 that police arrested Davis, now 63, outside his house in Henderson. At the time, he described the killing to police as “the biggest case in Las Vegas history.”

The trial attracted a swarm of international media who covered it breathlessly and exhaustively, although there were few revelations.

Physical evidence was scarce and much of the case consisted of Davis’ already publicized words in statements to the media and law enforcement about his involvement in the killing, including an admission in a memoir he has since disputed writing that he supplied the gun.

—Las Vegas Review-Journal

Saudi Arabia faces a grim choice as Houthis intensify attacks on airports and oil sites

BEIRUT — This wasn't the way the story was supposed to go for Saudi Arabia. In recent years, headlines about the country focused on the scale of its ambition, or the fantastical giga-projects girding Vision 2030, the full-steam-ahead drive to remake the kingdom into a business and entertainment powerhouse.

But all that was upended Saturday, when a Houthi missile lanced through Terminal 3 of the capital's international airport, killing 13 people, including a U.S. national, and wounding more than 300 others.

The attack — the deadliest Saudi Arabia has endured in years — made real a war that for most Saudis had remained notional. It also laid bare the bevy of bad scenarios facing Saudi leaders as they contend with an increasingly formidable enemy that, unlike them, has little to lose.

That the Houthis are able to score hits from 500 miles away, despite the Saudi military spending tens of billions of dollars on multi-layered air defense systems, has puzzled experts.

—Los Angeles Times