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NY Governor removes under-fire DA from alleged Cornell gang rape case and appoints Letitia James as special prosecutor

Dozens of students gathered at a campus forum Thursday to demand accountability, criticizing the university’s response to sexual assault allegations involving fraternity members

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Both outlets focus on the contents of Jane Doe’s 2024 statement to campus police, but they frame that statement differently. NPR foregrounds the attorney’s challenge to a local prosecutor and says the statement “clearly” described sexual assault, while 60 Minutes highlights that Doe said the accused men knew she was intoxicated. The only explicit contrast in the extracts is NPR’s emphasis on the dispute over interpretation versus 60 Minutes’ emphasis on the intoxication detail.

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