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Here’s what’s making headlines today: The Cornell rape investigation reopens amid new details, a judge pauses Mamdani’s second-home tax rollout, and more.
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**On this day in 1971, what iconic theme park officially opened to the public? **(answer revealed below!)
(hint: Bay Lake, FL)
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Prosecutors reopenCornell assault case. ⚖️Judge pausesMamdani’s new tax rollout. 🏛️Regulators skipcharges in raw milk case. 🏥
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Prosecutors this week reopened the criminal investigation into a woman's allegation that she was sexually assaulted by seven Cornell fraternity members in 2022, after new excerpts from her 2024 police interview and text messages surfaced. Tompkins County DA Matthew Van Houten disputes claims that he misrepresented what she told police.
The woman is also suing Cornell and the fraternity members. The case has renewed scrutiny of a New York law that makes it hard to prosecute sex with a voluntarily intoxicated person.
**The fallout:**Governor Kathy Hochul ordered outside counsel to review Cornell’s handling. Ithaca’s mayor pushed to restrict student event permits.
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A judge paused Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new tax on high-value homes that aren’t a primary residence, ruling his administration wrongly shifted residency proof onto homeowners.
The tax was pitched as a way to make wealthy New Yorkers pay more. Mamdani’s office says wealthy homeowners are using lawsuits to dodge that bill, while the plaintiffs’ attorney says City Hall should have admitted its mistakes instead of fighting them in court.
**The fix:**Judge Wayne Ozzi ordered the city to pull a public list of nearly a million properties with owners’ names, void prior notices, and send new ones explaining each property’s tax basis. Mamdani’s team plans to appeal; a loss could squeeze the timeline before November tax bills.
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Today’s Poll:Tax TangleA judge paused Mayor Mamdani’s new tax on high-value non-primary homes, ruling the city mishandled residency verification. The ruling puts the city’s approach to taxing high-value second homes under scrutiny, with an appeal now pending.
How should New York City handle taxing high-value homes that aren’t a primary residence?
An unlicensed California dairy farmer sold raw goat milk that left two kids hospitalized, according to ProPublica, and regulators never filed charges.
Emily Marris’s 17-month-old daughter developed a rare E. coli infection and kidney failure after drinking milk from Courtney Baker’s Moonlight Ridge farm. A six-year-old who drank the same milk needed blood transfusions. Texts showed Baker knew children were drinking it, according to ProPublica.
**The issue:**Raw milk is often marketed as a natural remedy, but unpasteurized dairy carries serious bacterial risk. Investigators said they couldn’t establish that the milk was meant for people and couldn’t take their own sample. They issued a cease and desist.
🫁 Anatomy: Your lungs contain roughly 1,500 miles of airways when all their branching passages are laid end to end. Breathing is apparently a much bigger commute than expected.
🍍 Food: Pineapples were once so rare and expensive in 18th-century Europe that wealthy people would rent them for parties instead of eating them. They were a symbol of wealth and status—basically the original luxury flex.
🧦 World Records: The largest sock measures a whopping 32 feet and 7 inches. That’s less clothing and more knitted infrastructure.
🤯WTF: Before refrigerators were invented, people in parts of Russia reportedly put live brown frogs in milk to help keep it from spoiling. Compounds on the frogs’ skin have antimicrobial properties that may have slowed bacterial growth. Forget refrigeration—just add frog.
TODAY’S QUIZ ANSWER:
Walt Disney World
Walt Disney World opened in Bay Lake, Florida, on October 1, 1971, five years after Walt Disney’s death. The Magic Kingdom, its first park, welcomed roughly 10,000 guests on opening day. It has since grown into the most-visited vacation resort complex in the world, spanning four theme parks and two water parks.
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