IN WHAT WORLD?: In a sometimes heated announcement, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she appointed the state’s Attorney General Letitia James to act as a special prosecutor looking into the accusation of a gang rape in a Cornell University frat house two years ago.

  Faulting primarily the Cornell police, but also the local prosecutor, Hochul said, “In what world would the police learn from the victim that she had literally been gang-raped” and not pass those allegations to the district attorney.”

  Going after the local DA, Hochul said, “When the Tompkins County district attorney announced that he was reopening the case, he pointed to Jane Doe’s statement that said it did not establish that a crime had occurred. But new reporting raises serious questions about the information his office relied upon...