The Free Press · October 6, 2026

News briefs: Cornell 7 Lawsuit, 200 Quarantined in Siberia

• The Free Press sent Olivia Reingold to Cornell to report on the "Cornell 7" case: an anonymous Jane Doe filed a lawsuit last month alleging seven male students gang-raped her at a fraternity house in 2024.
• A student building was vandalized the night before she arrived; she attended a "Justice for Survivors" protest drawing a large crowd.
• Some 200 people are quarantined in Siberia after an apparent pneumonic plague outbreak; a 28-year-old researcher at a Russian germ lab died last week (CNBC); Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it "cause for focus," not alarm (Fox News).
• Flávio Bolsonaro is headed to a runoff on October 25 against incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for Brazil's presidency (WSJ).
• The co-pilot of FlyDubai Flight 1073 planned for over a year to crash the plane into Ben Gurion International Airport last week, Israeli officials told CBS News; one official called it "a huge failure" that security checks did not flag him.
• The Nasdaq hit an all-time high Monday, led by Nvidia and Microsoft (Reuters).
• Former American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn was sentenced to life without parole for murdering his wife (CBS News).
• Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will join Fox News as an on-air contributor starting November 1 (AP).

Reporting and news items as cited in the digest, via CNBC, WSJ, CBS News, Reuters, Fox News, and AP. Original headline: "The Front Page: The Rage at Cornell".