News Wrap: Cornell students protest handling of alleged rape

In our news wrap Monday, students at Cornell are staging protests over the university's handling of an alleged fraternity house gang rape in 2024, President Trump said a threat linked to Iran was the reason the U.S. withdrew its bombers from the Fairford airbase in the UK and Dennis Hastert, the disgraced former House Speaker who later went to prison, has died.

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In the day's other headlines: Students at Cornell are protesting the university's handling of an alleged sexual assault at a fraternity house in 2024 and to show support for the unnamed accuser.

Jane Doe deserved a campus that supported her. Jane Doe deserved an administration that delivered a fair and proper judicial process.

Hundreds gathered to hear speeches by their fellow students in what's expected to be the first of multiple protests this week. Also today, the university had to scrub graffiti blasting the school's response off its main administration building.

President Trump said today that a threat linked to Iran was the reason the U.S. withdrew its bombers from the Fairford air base in the U.K. On Sunday, the Pentagon rushed to move a dozen B-1 bombers back to the U.S. The long-range warplanes have been used to strike Iran.

J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States: What you saw there is the secretary of war, out of an abundance of caution, trying to protect our guys. We do feel with some confidence that the Iranians are -- they're trying to do what the Iranian state has done for 49 years, which is engage in acts of terrorism against the United States and against a lot of other people as well.

Last week, the British prime minister also said the U.K. believes that Iran played a part in a security incident at the air base last month. Tehran has denied any involvement.

The Houthis themselves claim their own advances near the city of Taiz with strikes like this one, as fighting rages on along several fronts.

Analysts say that 80-year-old Lula is facing an uphill battle against the 45-year-old Bolsonaro, who's an ally of President Trump and the son of Brazil's former right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro. Both candidates spoke to their supporters last night and vowed to keep fighting.

Flavio Bolsonaro, Brazilian Presidential Candidate (through interpreter):

I'm very happy with the result we just saw, almost 56 million Brazilians voting for me. I could not be more pleased to see that Brazil wants change. That's what I take from today.