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8th-grader who questioned how classmate can ‘identify as a cat’ called ‘despicable’ by teacher, report says – KATU
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Netanyahu says Israel not bound by ‘despicable’ U.N. vote
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec 31 (Reuters) – Israel condemned and the Palestinians welcomed on Saturday a United Nations General Assembly vote asking the International Court of Justice to provide an opinion on legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.
The Friday vote presents a challenge for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who this week took office at the head of a government which has set settlement expansion as a priority and which includes parties who want to annex West Bank land on which they are built.
“The Jewish people are not occupiers in their own land nor occupiers in our eternal capital Jerusalem and no U.N. resolution can distort that historical truth,” Netanyahu said in a video message, adding that Israel was not bound by the “despicable decision.”
Along with Gaza and East Jerusalem, the Palestinians seek the occupied West Bank for a state. Most countries consider Israel’s settlements there illegal, a view Israel disputes citing historical and Biblical ties to the land.
The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) also known as the World Court, is the top U.N. court dealing with disputes between states. Its rulings are binding, though the ICJ has no power to enforce them.
The U.N. General Assembly asked the ICJ to give an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s “occupation, settlement and annexation … including measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem.”
Members of Netanyahu’s new government have pledged to bolster settlements with development plans, budgets and authorisation of dozens of outposts built without permits.
The cabinet includes newly created posts and restructured roles that grant some of those powers to pro-settler coalition partners, who ultimately aim to extend Israeli sovereignty to the West Bank.
Netanyahu, however, has given no indication of any imminent steps to annex the settlements, a move that would likely shake up its relations with Western and Arab allies alike.
The Palestinians welcomed the U.N. vote in which 87 members voted in favour of adopting the request; Israel, the United States and 24 other members voted against; and 53 abstained.
“The time has come for Israel to be a state subject to law, and to be held accountable for its ongoing crimes against our people,” said Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority has limited self-rule in the West Bank.
Basem Naim, an official with Hamas, the Islamist militant group that controls Gaza, said it was “an important step toward confining and isolating the state of occupation (Israel).”
Writing by Maayan Lubell; Editing by Kim Coghill and Frances Kerry
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Rece Davis calls Auburn’s treatment of Bryan Harsin ‘disgraceful,’ ‘despicable’
Bryan Harsin never really had a chance at Auburn.
The Tigers just didn’t want him, according to Rece Davis.
The “College GameDay” host, who joined the College GameDay podcast, was critical of the way Auburn treated Harsin, who was fired Monday as the head coach. Specifically, Davis pointed to the school’s offseason investigation into the program that was initiated by then-President Jay Gogue after heavy turnover on the roster and coaching staff.
“What happened to Bryan Harsin in the offseason was disgraceful. I mean, despicable,” Davis said. “You don’t want him? Pay the man his money. You end up having to do it anyway. Just say, ‘You know what? We didn’t want this’ and send him on his way. Instead, they did something nefarious and unfair. If somehow, and it won’t, but if somehow, it’s proven that they had grounds for that and couldn’t prove it, then I’ll apologize, but right now I won’t. I thought it was disgraceful what they did to him.”
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One former player had said Harsin treated the team “like dogs,” though others rose to Harsin’s defense. The investigation ended with Gogue saying the “wild speculation” and misinformation was a “feeding frenzy” surrounding Harsin.
“He stood tall through it,” Davis said. “Did the best he could. They lost a bunch of double-digit leads, too, so he’s not without blame here, but I don’t think it had risen on the field to be the level of a fireable offense. They just didn’t want him.”
Auburn fired Harsin on Monday after less than two seasons. Harsin went 9-12 overall and 3-5 this year. Auburn has lost four straight games while struggling against Power Five opponents, including a 41-27 loss to Arkansas on Saturday that proved the final straw.
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Auburn will owe Harsin 70 percent of his remaining contract — more than $15 million — and half of that must be paid within 30 days.
Harsin was hired away from Boise State in December 2020 and Auburn gave him a six-year, $31.5 million deal. He never came close to replicating his past success or making the Tigers competitive in the SEC, and he failed to keep up with rivals Georgia and Alabama on the field or on the recruiting trail.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Khloé Kardashian Goes Off on ‘Despicable’ Tristan Thompson Whose Cheating ‘Demolished’ Their Love
Khloé Kardashian’s heartbreaking reaction to Tristan Thompson cheating on her once again has been revealed as her family’s reality cameras rolled.
During Thursday’s season finale of The Kardashians, Khloé, 37, finally learned the truth about Tristan’s paternity scandal after her sister Kim Kardashian uncovered his legal papers last episode.
The NBA player fathered a child with Maralee Nichols in December 2021. At the time of the child’s conception, he was still in a relationship with Khloé. (The pair had been in an on-again, off-again relationship since 2016 and welcomed daughter True in 2018.)
“I find out what Tristan is doing with the rest of the world,” Khloé told the cameras in a confessional. “A courtesy would be not doing it. But fine, if you do it, you’re not even gonna be a f—ing heads up before the rest of the world? It’s just an additional slap in my face. It’s humiliating, I’m embarrassed.”
“I’m replaying every event, every grand gesture, every trip, every date… all of that was a lie,” she continued. “I feel just not really in my own body, these things are just happening and I’m going through the motions. But when things happen to you a few times, you do kinda become immune to them, which is really sad.”
Jerritt Clark/Getty ; Vivien Killilea/Getty Tristan Thompson and Khloé Kardashian
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In another confessional, Khloé revealed more about the state of her heartbreak. “Everything is an act of betrayal, everything is a lie. It’s manipulation, it’s deceit. Did Tristan have every opportunity to tell me? Yes. Was Tristan going to tell me if there wasn’t a baby involved? Absolutely not. And that shows a lot about his character. The entire thing is despicable.”
“There’s nothing that can be said or done that will make me feel better,” she added. “All of the work, the energy, the conversations, all of those bricks that we were laying down [for] this foundation — all for it to just [have] a tornado go through and everything to be demolished.”
While Khloé spent some time alone processing the devastating news, her family gathered for a meeting, in which they shared their fury and disappointment over Tristan’s actions.
“Khloé is the strongest girl I know, but sometimes the strongest girl you know isn’t so strong all the time and I don’t want her to get to a place that she doesn’t have anybody to talk to because she feels like she needs to be strong,” said Kris Jenner. “She keeps recovering and forgiving for the sake of her daughter.”
“It’s such a lack of respect. This is somebody whose got a pattern of bad behavior, somebody whose lied to her since June,” Kris, 66, continued. “This is not something that can be undone. If he’s in this pattern, why does she have to keep suffering? That’s what breaks my heart.”
“The lack of honesty is what does it for me. It’s way less hurtful to say the truth than to find out on the internet,” Kourtney Kardashian noted, adding in a confessional that “we’ve given Tristan so many chances [and] I feel super disappointed.”
Kim, 41, was also angered, telling her family, “I’m exhausted of taking the high road… half of me wants to just put [him] on blast.”
Jerritt Clark/Getty Images Tristan Thompson, Khloe Kardashian
Later in the episode, Khloé felt ready to talk about the situation and met up with Kim. During their conversation, Khloé disclosed how it’s “f—ed” up that society often “blames” women in instances where their partner cheats.
“There’s no compassion,” Khloé said. “There’s just no sense of humanity.”
Her comments infuriated Kim, who went on to angrily slam all the the “f—ing trolls on the internet that make Khloé feel like the biggest piece of s—” in a confessional.
“I will find each and every one of you, and not threaten you on TV, but it’s wrong. It’s so wrong,” the KKW Beauty founder said. “Because you guys don’t understand that when you have a child, you’ll do anything to try and make it work. And I’m so proud of who Khloé is that she wanted to give her relationship a second chance, even after [Tristan] dogged her and embarrassed the s— out of her.”
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Though still heartbroken, Khloé revealed to Kim at the end of the episode that she did reach out to Tristan following the news but not much got accomplished, as “it was more yelling on my end.”
“There’s not much to talk about in my opinion,” she said. “It’s disgusting. We’re all over it. I didn’t buy tickets to this f—ing circus, but somehow I’m watching all these clowns act out in front of me. I want a refund, return to sender, I don’t want to be at this show.”
“Somehow these clowns keep coming back in this f—ing clown car, and no matter what he says, nothing’s gonna give me the answers that I’m looking for or the closure,” she said.
BACKGRID Khloé Kardashian and True
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Khloé also noted that she intends on keeping things as normal as possible for their daughter.
“True FaceTimes him every night. I don’t speak, he talks to True,” she explained. “And True will never know anything’s wrong in my book, ever. I’ve done this before. I know how to do it.”
After Kim pointed out how Tristan vowed to “go to therapy” and “start fixing myself,” she noted, “If that were me, and I was really trying to redeem myself and trying to be a better person, I would definitely just keep my d— in my pants.”
“You would think!” Khloé exclaimed. “You either wear a condom, get a vasectomy, or you don’t f— random people that you meet in other states. It’s not rocket science.”
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In a confessional, Kim added of her sister: “She’s gonna miss her best friend. She’s gonna miss the thought of, and hope of, them coming together and it’s gonna be an adjustment, especially when you have kids. You have no choice but to take the high road, even if it kills you.”
Despite everything, Khloé said she was “grateful for the clarity.”
“I feel vindicated in a way because I kept saying, ‘Guys, something’s not right here,'” she recalled, adding in a confessional, “I will push through anything and everything, just like I have in the past.”
Season 1 of The Kardashians is now streaming on Hulu.
FBI director Christopher Wray blames Iran for ‘despicable’ attempted cyberattack on Boston Children’s Hospital
The FBI was able to help thwart the hackers before they did damage to the hospital’s computer network, according to Wray, but he cited it as an example of the potential high-impact hacking threats that the US faces from the governments of Iran, Russia, China and North Korea.
“We cannot let up on China or Iran or criminal syndicates while we’re focused on Russia,” Wray said in a speech at Boston College.
The hack, which took place in June 2021, saw the attackers exploit popular software made by California-based firm Fortinet to control the hospital’s computer network, according to US officials.
Boston Children’s Hospital is a more than 400-bed facility and is considered one of the premier pediatric centers in the US.
The FBI got a tip about the Iranian hackers from a “valued partner within the intelligence community,” and the activity was thwarted before it was clear what the hackers’ end goal on the hospital’s network was, according to Joseph Bonavolonta, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston Field Office.
“There was no ransomware deployed,” Bonavolonta told reporters Wednesday, “and we were able to work with [the hospital] ahead of time to mitigate any of the other potential associated threats to the network.”
Wray had previously said in March that the Iranian government-linked hackers were behind a cyberattack on a children’s hospital, but he didn’t name the hospital.
“Thanks to the FBI and our Boston Children’s Hospital staff working so closely together, we proactively thwarted the threat to our network.” Kristen Dattoli, a spokesperson for the hospital, said in a statement.
CNN has requested comment from Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
Ransomware and other hacking threats have stalked the health care system for years — and appear to have gotten worse during the coronavirus pandemic.
There were 134 publicly reported ransomware incidents involving health care organizations in 2021, up from 106 incidents in 2020, according to threat-intelligence firm Recorded Future.
The Boston Children’s Hospital incident was one of several that prompted a public warning last November from the FBI and other agencies that Iranian government-backed hackers were targeting a range of organizations across the transportation and health care sectors.
The advisory was a rare case of the US government publicly linking Iran with ransomware, which is typically used by cybercriminals rather than governments. But US officials and private analysts have long warned of collusion between foreign governments and criminal hacking groups.
When it comes to potential Russian hacking threats to the US, the FBI has been on a “combat tempo,” with a 24/7 command post, during the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, Wray added.
“We’ve seen the Russian government taking specific preparatory steps towards potential destructive [cyber]attacks, both here and abroad,” he added.
Such a “destructive” hack — in which data or systems are destroyed — hasn’t been reported in the US since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But suspected Russian hackers have conducted a slew of destructive hacks in Ukraine, and US officials are warning businesses to not let their guard down.
The same network access gained by Russian operatives to collect intelligence could be used for a destructive hack, Wray warned. “That’s why, when it comes to Russia today, we’re focused on acting as early — as far ‘left of boom,’ as they say — as we can.”
“We’re watching for their cyber activities to become more destructive as the war keeps going poorly for them,” Wray said Wednesday.
Canada bans conversion therapy, a practice Trudeau calls ‘despicable and degrading’
The law makes it a crime to subject a person of any age, consenting or not, to such treatment.
So-called conversion therapies rely on the assumption that sexual orientation can be changed or “cured” — an idea discredited by major medical associations in the US, the UK and elsewhere.
It’s often performed by religious leaders, but licensed clinicians are also engaged in the practice.
The Canadian bill makes “providing, promoting, or advertising conversion therapy” a criminal offense, the Senate of Canada said on Twitter. It will also be an offense to profit from the provision of conversion therapy.
In addition, the bill states a person cannot remove a “child from Canada with the intention that the child undergo conversion therapy outside Canada.” The Criminal Code violations will go into effect 30 days after the bill received the Royal Assent on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hailed the Royal Assent, which is granted by the Governor General of Canada.
“It’s official: Our government’s legislation banning the despicable and degrading practice of conversion therapy has received Royal Assent — meaning it is now law,” he wrote on Twitter. “LGBTQ2 Canadians, we’ll always stand up for you and your rights.”
“LGBTQ2” is the acronym used by the Canadian government, with the “2” referring to Two-Spirit, “a culturally-specific identity used by some Indigenous people to indicate a person whose gender identity, spiritual identity and/or sexual orientation comprises both male and female spirits,” according to the government’s glossary of terminology.
Last year, hundreds of religious leaders joined forces to push for a global ban on conversion therapy.
The declaration asked for forgiveness for the harm that some religious teachings have caused LGBTQ+ people and calls for everyone to “celebrate inclusivity and the extraordinary gift of our diversity.”
Malta — a tiny island nation in the Mediterranean with a population of just over 400,000 — made history by implementing a nationwide ban on conversion therapy in 2016.
And in May 2020, Germany’s parliament approved a ban on conversion therapies for minors, and for adults who have been forced, threatened or deceived to undergo the controversial treatment.
In the US, 20 states and more than 100 municipalities have banned the practice, according to the National Center for Lesbian Rights’ Born Perfect campaign, which aims to end conversion therapy.
CNN’s Jack Guy, Rob Picheta and Kelly McCleary contributed to this report.