News Wrap: Cornell says Sally Yates will review handling of sexual assault reports

In our news wrap Tuesday, Cornell named former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review of how the school handles sexual assault reports on campus, lawyers for Christa Pike said she's awake and speaking after surviving a botched execution attempt last week and President Trump is facing backlash after he suggested that Iran could "take out" two cities in California.

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Also today, Cornell named former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to lead what it's calling a comprehensive independent review of how the school handles sexual assault on campus.

Last week, New York's Attorney General Letitia James was tasked with carrying out her own review to determine if criminal charges should be filed.

The 50-year-old was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and killing of classmate Colleen Slemmer. After Pike survived two lethal injections, Tennessee's governor paused further executions for the year and ordered an investigation into the state's capital punishment system.

It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take -- let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.

That's -- this is a very small price to pay, and it's going to be over very soon.

California's Democratic lawmakers condemned the remarks. And Republican congressional candidate and Navy veteran Jim Desmond said he vehemently disagrees, saying -- quote -- No American city is expendable."

Paramount officially closed its multibillion-dollar deal for Warner Bros. Discovery today, creating one of Hollywood's most valuable properties. The combined company is called Skydance, and it folds such titles as HBO Max and CNN under the same umbrella as CBS and Paramount+.

The Emmy Awards are moving off broadcast TV. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced today that Amazon's Prime Video will broadcast the ceremony for a period of six years starting in 2027. Amazon says the show will be free with no Prime membership required.

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Francis Halzen for developing a pioneering telescope to detect high-energy neutrinos, sometimes called ghost particles. Researchers believe these high-energy minuscule particles can offer clues into how the universe evolved.

On Wall Street today, stocks ticked higher once again, despite worries over Iran and inflation. The Dow Jones industrial average added around 250 points. The Nasdaq rose nearly half-a-percent. The S&P 500 climbed to a new all-time high.