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#accountability

With four serving gardaí and a retired superintendent facing serious charges of unlawfully interfering in road-­traffic prosecutions, it is not just their reputations that are on the stand.

In an era of wars and massacres with impunity, from Ukraine to the Middle East, passing through Sudan and other parts of the planet, the edifice of international justice that was born in Nuremberg is showing severe cracks. If the people who have suffered horror in Ukraine, in Sudan, in Israel on October 7, and in Gaza, in Palestine, ask themselves what international law has done for them, they will answer that it hasn't done much, says jurist and writer Philippe Sands by telephone.

Members of the Board of Supervisors are calling for action and accountability after Mission Local reported that women held in a San Francisco jail were allegedly forced to undress in front of each other while sheriff's deputies watched and filmed them with their body-worn cameras. Late Thursday afternoon, 17 women filed a claim with the city saying that deputies violated multiple laws and policies in May when they strip searched them en masse while male deputies were present.

Jamie Dimon is the CEO of JPMorgan Chase and a great business icon from which to learn. No matter where you are in your career (an early 30-something seeking Jamie Dimon advice or an older professional looking for retirement wisdom), Jamie Dimon offers appropriate insights for everyone. If you're a 60-something reflecting on your career or heading toward retirement, here are five Jamie Dimon quotes every 60-year-old needs to hear.

He recently wrote to SFMTA officials and Supervisor Myrna Melgar, arguing that they need to shift Vision Zero policy away from reacting to deadly crashes, and instead focus on streets and intersections where speeding and other forms of reckless driving are common. In other words, instead of depending on the high-injury network-a reactive system based on an accounting of deaths and serious injuries- take a proactive and systemic approach to making streets safe.

Vanderbilt'svision of the trial for 22 of the surviving Nazi leaders-21 were in fact in the dock-by the United Sates, the USSR, Britain, and France telegraphs its anxieties across the 80 years from the trial's opening to today. At Nuremberg's first public session, on November 20, 1945, journalists heralded the opening of "the trial of the century." Nuremberg's message to the law and politics of the previous century was the way claiming to be "just following orders" shouldn't cancel individual responsibility for widespread atrocities.

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Forgiveness is often offered as a powerful solution, as an agent to not only help you heal from painful events but also allow you to move forward. The general idea is that holding onto anger can make you bitter and hold you back from healing from harm that someone has done to you. But the problem is that there are several serious complications when we try to use forgiveness as a solution.

When couples come to us for therapy, they usually want the same thing: fewer fights, less hurt, more harmony. They imagine that the healthiest relationships are the ones with the least conflict. But that's not how love actually works. The goal isn't the absence of conflict (rupture)-it's how we use the conflict to repair-create and sustain meaningful connection. In our book, Love. Crash. Rebuild, we teach every couple two unexpectedly simple rules.

This isn't hypothetical. In a survey of 450 security leaders, engineers, and developers across the U.S. and Europe, 1 in 5 organizations said they had already suffered a serious cybersecurity incident tied to AI-generated code, and more than two-thirds (69%) had uncovered flaws created by AI. Mistakes made by a machine, rather than by a human, are directly linked to breaches that are already causing real financial, reputational, or operational damage. Yet artificial intelligence isn't going away.

His chronic ignorance looks less like a habit than a strategy a way to stay in the good graces of President Donald Trump, who rewards loyalty above all. In Trump's Washington, knowledge is dangerous. Knowing too much can force you to act, make you responsible, even put you at odds with the leader who prefers fealty to fact. So Johnson has mastered a subtler art: performative ignorance. I'm not aware does more than dodge a question it signals allegiance.

Running a non-profit organisation may sound like a noble calling filled with purpose and community impact, but the reality often involves much more complexity than most people imagine. It's a demanding role that requires vision, resilience, and the ability to balance compassion with practicality. Non-profit leaders wear many hats, managing everything from funding and operations to staff morale and public trust.

My first boss told me, "Don't make the client's problem your problem." I think about that a lot. Come early to work. Gives you time to settle in for the day. Every morning, skim your calendar for the week. Once a week, check your calendar for the month. Double-check all your events and deadlines are properly calendared. The cases are yours, not your legal assistant's.

A respected British barrister as well as an evangelical leader, he oversaw Christian camps in the United Kingdom, Zimbabwe and South Africa, where more than 100 boys and young men were abused. He embodied the authority and social privilege that shielded him from scrutiny. When reports of his abuse first surfaced in England in the early 1980s, the Church chose silence over accountability, allowing him to carry his cruelty to Africa.

Soon after Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration gutted the federal government's central education data collection and research funding agency, the Institute of Education Sciences. Researchers say the move jeopardized the nation's ability to figure out how to improve K-12 and higher education and its capacity to hold publicly funded schools, colleges and universities accountable. But the president didn't fully erase IES-which Congress created, and continues to require to exist, through the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002.

Ontario Labour Minister David Piccini was in the hot seat Monday as politicians are back at Queen's Park for the first time in months. Opposition parties focused most of their questions on findings from a recent Ontario auditor general report on the Skills Development Fund, which she said was not "fair, transparent or accountable." The auditor found that Piccini's office has been heavily involved in selecting projects that get funded under the $2.5-billion skills training program

The usually composed and affable goaltender didn't mince words in his postgame interview, calling out the lack of effort and accountability on the ice from his Leafs' teammates. With the Maple Leafs continuing to underperform and losing a very-winnable game, Stolarz's comments cut through the usual clichés and struck a chord. It wasn't just frustration; it was a challenge to his teammates, and exactly what Toronto needs to snap out of its uninspired form.

Some experiences in life simply can't be prepared for. You can imagine how you might feel and what you might do, but you can never actually know how you will respond in a situation until it happens. Falling in love, becoming a parent, and facing one's mortality all fit into this category. In the workplace, your first interview, first day on the job, and the first time you're given the responsibility of managing others fall into this category.

As Syria turns the page after Bashar al-Assad's fall, the transitional government promises justice, truth, and rule of law.

The expose of vile police discrimination at Charing Cross police station comes just three years after the last expose at the same station (Met plunged into crisis amid fresh claims of misogyny and racism, 1 October). This experience confirms that unless there is full accountability for police discrimination, the behaviour will simply carry on. The failure to have accountability is part of the institutional discrimination highlighted in the Casey review.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- For the second time in four weeks, the winless New York Jets released a player who made a critical mistake on special teams. Isaiah Williams, who lost a fumble on the second-half kickoff in Monday night's 27-21 loss to the Miami Dolphins, was waived on Saturday, a source told ESPN. It was another loud statement by first-year coach Aaron Glenn, who is trying to create a sense of accountability. After a Week 1 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Jets cut kickoff returner Xavier Gipson, whose late fumble proved costly in the two-point loss.

Serving Met Officers called for immigrants to be shot, revelled in the use of force and were dismissive of rape claims in footage captured by a Panorama undercover reporter. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood described the footage, which also shows officers making sexualised comments to colleagues and sharing racist views about immigrants and Muslims, as "disturbing" and "sickening". Sir Mark Rowley, head of the Met Police, has apologised for the "reprehensible and completely unacceptable" behaviour.

"Climate tech" isn't a thing. It has shifted in recent years from a category to define clean energy companies to an umbrella phrase that loses meaning the more we use it. Granted, the term is everywhere: inserted into VC pitch decks, plastered on billboards along highways from San Francisco to Austin to Boston, wedged into government policy papers, and featured prominently on conference agendas. Media properties from CNBC to GreenBiz rely on it as a traffic-driving category.

U.S. lawmakers are demanding that Israel be held accountable for the violence perpetrated against Palestinian Americans by Israeli soldiers and settlers. "The grief and outrage of the families of American citizens killed and detained by Israeli forces was palpable," Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pennsylvania) posted on social media on Wednesday. "I am so grateful for their courage and advocacy driven by the hope that more families do not have to experience the pain they do." Since 2022, Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 10 American citizens in the West Bank and Gaza, according to Lee's office. No one has been prosecuted in connection with any of the deaths, reports.

When faced with failure, do you tend to react with anger or hurt? Do you get defensive, deny a role in what happened, or perhaps deny that failure even occurred? Do you slant information to avoid looking guilty, or come up with a laundry list of reasons for the failure that were outside of your control? Perhaps you try being nice with the hopes that others will overlook the failure or point their fingers elsewhere.

Without it, projects get stopped, deadlines are missed, and corporate goals go off course. But it's hard to hold individuals accountable when communication isn't working, roles aren't clear, and progress isn't clear. Modern project management tools fix this problem by making tracking, transparency, and clarity a part of daily work. With tools like Lark that are easy to use, being accountable is less about micromanaging and more about giving teams the structure and visibility they need to succeed.