Kris Jenner Tells Her Kids She Cheated on Her High School Boyfriend with Robert Kardashian
Even after all of these years, Kris Jenner still manages to surprise her daughters.
In a sneak peek at Sunday’s episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kim Kardashian West, 37, and Khloé Kardashian, 33, sit down to watch a tribute video Scott Disick, 34, made for Jenner, 62.
“I’m really excited for my kids to see my legacy video,” says Jenner. “Because they’ll have that forever — and who knows, maybe they learned a thing or two about their mom that they didn’t know before.”
The footage shows Kourtney Kardashian‘s ex interviewing Jenner, who reveals that her relationship with their late father — her first husband Robert Kardashian — started as a fling when she was dating somebody else.
“Back in the spring of 1973, I was 17 years old,” she says. “I actually had a boyfriend who was always out of town. His name was Cesar. So while he was living on the road, I met Robert Kardashian.”
Khloé wasted no time teasing her mom, calling her a “hussy” and quipping, “Oh my God, you’re such a whore! Now we know where we get it from.”
But Jenner’s story gets even juicier: One day when Robert was over, Cesar unexpectedly returned home.
“Well, it wasn’t pretty,” she admits. “Not proud of it. Actually, Cesar tried to grab his sweater. I think he ripped a hole in Robert’s sweater! I didn’t want to ever hurt anybody’s feelings.”
Jenner also reveals that she once had a bone tumor that would have caused her left leg to be amputated had it been cancerous.
“You did?” Khloé exclaims while watching the video. “I did not know that.”
“I cannot believe Scott made this legacy video,” Kim says.
“I think it’s so sweet,” says Khloé. “So much I think we think we know about mom — but we really don’t.”
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Mother gives birth, abandons baby in airport bathroom with handwritten note: Authorities
Authorities are looking for a mother who they believe abandoned her newborn baby at Tucson International Airport with a handwritten note pleading, “I just want what is best for him and it is not me.”
The woman, seen on security footage carrying something wrapped in a blanket and walking with an awkward gait, may have given birth in an airport bathroom in Tucson, Arizona, before leaving the child on a changing table at a family changing room with a handwritten note, Los Angeles ABC station KABC reported.
The Tucson Airport Authority released footage this week of the woman walking through the airport when the baby was abandoned on Jan. 14, and are looking to find out who she is.
The note left with the child read, “Please help me. My mom had no idea she was pregnant. She is unable and unfit to take care of me. Please get me to the authorities so they can find a good home.
“I just want what is best for him and it’s not me,” the note adds.
Tucson Airport Authority via StoryfulAirport security received a 911 call from someone who discovered the baby at the changing table near baggage claim, according to KABC, and they immediately began investigating.
The child was in good condition, authorities said.
The Washington Post reported airport officials found bloody clothes in an airport bathroom they believe belong to the woman.
Article via: http://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-birth-abandons-baby-airport-bathroom-handwritten-note/story?id=52955414
Report: Yale Dental Students, Staff Took Selfie With Severed Heads
Dental school grad students and a University of Connecticut orthodontics professor took a selfie “with two severed heads used for medical research at a training workshop at Yale University” in 2017, the Associated Press reportedon Monday.
According to the AP report, the students nabbed the selfies during the DePuy Synthes Future Leaders Workshop, “which focused on dental-related facial deformities”:
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the photo from a person who received it through a private group chat. That person, who demanded anonymity because of potential harm to their career, said the person who took the selfie would not give the AP permission to publish it for fear of being expelled.
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In the photo, [UConn Health orthodontics director and visiting Yale professor Dr. Flavio Uribe] and several graduate students are looking at the camera, while others continue to work. All are wearing surgical masks. The two severed heads are on tables, face up.
The AP added that Uribe said the photo was taken so quickly he was unaware it captured the two heads, which he was using to show the students proper placement of screws. However, a Yale spokesman told the news agency signs are posted noting the laboratory’s no-photography policy, as well as that the incident “was disturbing and an inexcusable deviation from anything Yale would expect to occur.”
Training with actual dead bodies is a critical part of medical training, as well as a somewhat morbid rite of passage at medical schools. This kind of story pops up every so often and usually comes with consequences for the personnel involved, including an alleged wave of corpse photos and videos from medical institutions making their way online in 2010, something that’s never reallystopped happening.
Today the trend is (slowly) moving towards expensive synthetic cadavers like the $95,000 SynDaver Patient, which can be remote controlled to rehearse crisis scenarios like heart attacks and boasts fake organs, muscle tissue, and blood. Advancements over the past few years have made it possible to convincingly imitate many different types of human tissue, per Smithsonian, from “subcutaneous fat to rectus femoris muscle.” Taking a selfie with one of those is probably not going to get anyone in trouble with an ethics board, though some medical professionals think they’re a long way away from replacing hands-on experience with actual cadavers.
Article via: https://gizmodo.com/report-yale-dental-students-staff-took-selfies-with-s-1822753127
Ammo seller to Las Vegas killer arrested on federal charge
Douglas Haig, an Arizona man who says he sold tracer ammunition to the gunman in October’s Las Vegas massacre, was arrested Friday on a charge of conspiring to manufacture and sell another type of ammunition — armor-piercing bullets — in violation of federal law.
Suspect shoots, wounds at least six ‘people of color’ in Italian city amid tensions
A man draped in Italy’s tricolor flag wounded at least six “people of color” in a drive-by shooting in a central Italian city on Saturday before being detained, authorities said. The suspect had been a candidate for the anti-immigrant Northern League party in municipal elections last year, according to a party spokeswoman.
The suspect’s motive in the shootings in Macerata was not known, but a young Italian woman was gruesomely murdered in the city this past week, allegedly by a Nigerian immigrant, prompting a wave of anger in a nation where many were already seeking to reduce the entry of migrants.
The attack’s connection to the Northern League was likely to unsettle Italy as it approaches national elections on March 4. Far-right groups have been gaining in the polls, and the Northern League looks as though it may have a chance to govern as a junior member of a coalition with other right-wing parties.
A police spokesman said that 28-year-old Luca Traini was detained near Macerata’s central war memorial early Saturday afternoon. A handgun was in the suspect’s car, and the green-white-and-red flag of Italy was tied around his shoulders, the official said. Traini admitted his guilt as he was arrested, added the spokesman, who declined to be publicly identified under ground rules set by the force. The five men and one woman who were shot were expected to recover, Macerata Mayor Romano Carancini said.
Local news outlets said that the man was detained after he stepped out of his black Alfa Romeo 147 near the memorial, gave a fascist salute, and shouted “Italy for the Italians.” It was not clear whether the victims were Italian citizens.
After the attack, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni called on political leaders on all sides to stop a “cycle of violence.”
“Let’s stop this risk, let’s stop in now, let’s stop it together,” he said in a nationally televised statement from his residence, the Palazzo Chigi, in Rome. “Hate and violence won’t be able to divide us.”
Large numbers of migrants began sailing across the Mediterranean toward Italy after Libya plunged into lawlessness and civil war following the 2011 downfall of Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi. More than 620,000 migrants, many of them African, have arrived in Italy since the beginning of 2014, contributing to a growing sense among Italians that the country was taking in far more people than it could handle.
Anti-immigrant sentiment has become a main theme in the campaign leading up to next month’s elections. Northern League leader Matteo Salvini has vowed to expel 150,000 immigrants from Italy and close the country’s borders to most new arrivals.
The murder in Macerata this past week of 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro drew national attention to the city of 43,000 and added fuel to the debate on migration. On Wednesday, her dismembered remains were found packed into two suitcases. A 29-year-old Nigerian man, Innocent Oseghale, was charged with her murder.
“What was this maggot still doing in Italy? He wasn’t fleeing war, he brought war to Italy,” Salvini wrote on Facebook on Thursday.
The suspect in Saturday’s shooting ran as a Northern League candidate last June for a seat on the municipal council of Corridonia, a town of 15,000 people just south of Macerata, according to a Northern League spokeswoman who spoke on condition that her name not be used. She said that the party was conferring about how to respond to the news.
Four current California lawmakers accused of sexual misconduct since 2006, none punished
Records on a dozen sexual harassment allegations made public by California state legislative leaders detail complaints against former and current lawmakers, including a candidate for governor.
The California Senate and Assembly on Friday released documents dating back more than decade that show a combined 18 substantiated or well-founded sexual harassment complaints lodged against state politicians and top staffers.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Travis Allen was among three other current lawmakers named in the unprecedented document release.
Allen, a state assemblyman from Huntington Beach, was accused of making repeated physical contact that left a staff member feeling “uncomfortable” back in 2013.
The female staffer outlined several occasions during which Allen seemed to stand unnecessarily close to her, according to the records. She also recalled a briefing during which the Governor-hopeful “slid his foot over so that it was touching hers.”
She additionally reported “another woman in the off ice” described to her a handshake with Allen during which he continued to hold onto her hand and “petted it.”
The complaints against Allen came just two months after he was sworn in as an assemblyman.
Jon Waldie, at the time chief administrative officer for the State Assembly, informed Allen two women had “preceived him as being too familiar and it was making them feel uncomfortable.”
Waldie continued on to remind Allen “to be very conscious of his conduct.”
Allen released a statement Friday through his spokeswoman, pushing back against the allegations. He told the Los Angeles Times he was “shocked” when he first learned of them in 2013 and believes their release was politically motivated.
“The release of this unsubstantiated complaint is a political attack by a Democrat-led committee,” he said. “I’m sure I’ve shaken many people’s hands, tapped many people on the shoulder, and have even tapped people’s feet accidentally. But there has never been anything in my actions that has been inappropriate, and nor will there ever be.”
The records also name state Sens. Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys) and Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia) as well as Assemblywoman Autumn Burke (D-Marina del Ray) and former Assembly Raul Bocanegra (D-Pacoima) — who resigned last year following a series of misconduct allegations from several women.
Mendoza last week was suspended amid an investigation into allegations that he behaved inappropriately with a woman who worked with him 2010.
Burke acknowledged participating in a conversation about anal sex after a complaint was filed against her late last year, according to the documents. There did not appear to be any type of official punishment.
Hertzberg, known for greeting people with hugs, said he would no longer do so after three female staffers told the Sacramento Bee it made them uncomfortable. His nicknames include “Hugsberg” and “Huggy Bear.”
He said the instance described in the documents was “a settled matter from several years ago” and vowed to work toward making the Capitol “safe and accountable workplace for all.”
Article via: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/current-california-lawmakers-accused-sexual-misconduct-article-1.3796950
Colorado teacher accused of assaulting student who wouldn’t stand for the Pledge of Allegiance
A teacher with Colorado’s Boulder Valley School District was placed on paid administrative leave following an alleged incident at the middle school, the school district said Thursday. CBS Denver confirmed the Lafayette Police Department is investigating reports that teacher allegedly assaulted a student who refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
Karen Smith, Angevine’s physical education teacher, was placed on leave Thursday.
The school’s principal, Mike Medina, sent a letter home to parents Thursday evening notifying them there had been an “incident” involving Smith but said he could not elaborate.
The Lafayette Police Department responded to an incident at the school around noon Thursday.
A parent waiting to pick her child up at Angevine Friday afternoon told CBS Denver that her daughter knows Smith as a “strict” teacher but has never had an issue.
Two other parents who spoke to CBS Denver off camera said they believe the story has been “blown out of proportion” and expressed disappointment.
The school is working closely with the Lafayette Police Department on the investigation. For now, it has hired a substitute teacher to take Smith’s place.
No charges have been filed.
CDC: 16 more children dead from flu, peak still to come
There were 16 flu-related deaths reported this week by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday in the weekly flu report. This brings the total number of pediatric flu-related deaths to 53 for the season which began in October.
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Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil Predicts 6 More Weeks Of Winter
We’re in for six more weeks of winter, at least if you take your meteorological cues from a woodchuck.
According to his handlers, Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow.
For most of the year, Phil is mainly a local attraction. But every February 2, the groundhog and his handlers – known as the “Inner Circle” – have their day. Thousands of people travel to Punsxutawney annually to witness Phil’s Groundhog Day weather forecast. If he sees his shadow, it means six more weeks of winter. If not, we’re in for an early spring.
John Griffiths has been a member of Phil’s Inner Circle for 20 years. His duties include everything from preparing the groundhog’s lunch to handling him on the big day. But despite his long relationship with Phil, Griffiths says he does not get inside information on the groundhog’s big prediction.
“Absolutely not!” Griffiths insists, scandalized at the question. “My gosh.”
We tried to nudge Phil and Phyllis for a sneak preview about this year’s forecast, but they only replied with a few sniffs of the microphone.
A.J. Dereume is a newer member of the Inner Circle. He says there are many pretenders, but Phil is the only real weather-forecasting groundhog in the world. So they like to recognize his stature by donning formal wear for his public appearances.
“As we consider him, he is the king of the animal kingdom,” Dereume says. “We have to honor him, and we do that with the tuxedos and top hats.”
Phil’s Inner Circle insists the same groundhog has been making the prediction for more than 130 years. The secret? A special drink called the “elixir of life”. One sip gives Phil another seven years. But what’s in it? John Griffiths won’t say.
“It’s a secret that’s been passed down from handler to handler for generations,” he claims.
Gobbler’s Knob, a clearing outside Punxsutawney, Pa., is the site of the annual Feb. 2 event, where Phil the groundhog predicts whether there will be an early spring or six more weeks of winter.
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Another secret is how Phil gets from his home at the library to the big event at Gobbler’s Knob, a clearing in the woods outside of town. Griffiths like to say Phil is taken by way of secret tunnels to throw off anyone who might be following them.
“It’s like a catacomb down there,” he deadpans.
The tunnels are…unconfirmed. But however Phil travels to Gobbler’s Knob, after he arrives, he awaits his big moment inside a hollowed-out tree stump with a nameplate that says “PHIL”.
At about 7:25 a.m., Bill Deeley, the president of the Inner Circle, taps on the door three times. Phil is brought out, and it’s up to Deeley to decipher whether Phil has seen his shadow. Griffiths says a cane made from the wood of an acacia tree allows the Inner Circle president to translate Phil’s forecast.
Griffiths says there’s a common misunderstanding about how Phil communicates. “[Deeley] doesn’t speak to Phil,” he explains. “He interpretswhat Phil says, through a series of whistles and clicks and any kind of noise that he makes.”
The prediction, Griffiths says, is right every time.
Article via: https://www.npr.org/2018/02/01/582448208/groundhog-day-behind-the-scenes-with-punxsutawney-phils-inner-circle
Kimora Lee Simmons Defends Ex-Husband Russell Simmons Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Kimora Lee Simmons has finally spoken out about her ex-husband Russell Simmons, following news that 15 women have accused the music producer and entrepreneur of sexual misconduct.
“I add my voice to the chorus of those speaking out against harassment and violence in all its forms,” Lee Simmons, 42, wrote in a lengthy Instagram post defending her husband while also supporting the #MeToo movement on Thursday.
“I have known Russell for over 25 years. We were close friends, married, divorced and have remained friends, co-parents and partners throughout it all. These allegations against him are nothing like the person I have known in all that time. I have known him to be a caring and supportive father and someone who has worked tirelessly to uplift disenfranchised communities,” she added.
Continuing her statement, Lee Simmons added, “This is a pivotal moment in which men are being held accountable for their abuses of power and denigrating behavior towards women in all spheres. As a mother of two daughters, I believe that no one should ever be shamed or portrayed as an unreliable witness to their own experience for speaking up. Nor should anyone be condemned legally without due process and a fair trial.”
“My sincere hope is that anyone faced with harassment or assault reports it to their organization and/or law enforcement, though I understand that in many cases, this may not be possible. I remain committed as always to fighting injustice and inequity in all its forms. God Bless,” she concluded.
Article via: http://people.com/music/kimora-lee-simmons-defends-russell-simmons-sexual-misconduct-allegations/