Morning Brief, Oct. 4: Cornell fraternity assault allegations: A timeline of the case and reopened investigation

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• Cornell fraternity assault allegations: A timeline of the case and reopened investigation. Tompkins County DA Matthew Van Houten reopened an inquiry into alleged assaults at Cornell’s Chi Phi house in Ithaca, with grand-jury review planned.

Last week

• CNN, MS NOW and Politico ask judge to extend block on White House press ban (Sept. 28). In Washington, D.C., CNN, MS NOW and Politico asked a judge to keep their White House press credentials while their lawsuit against Trump proceeds.
• What Anthropic’s IPO prospectus says about the cost of building AI (Sept. 28). Anthropic’s prospectus reports $4.6 billion in 2025 revenue, an operating loss above $8 billion and $7.33 billion in compute and infrastructure costs.
• Tennessee halts Christa Pike execution after two injections (Oct. 1). Christa Pike’s execution was halted in Nashville after two pentobarbital injections, her attorneys said; officials have not said why it stopped.

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