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Buchanan scores 28 off the bench, Boise State downs South Dakota State 83-82Packard to lead House, Carson chosen in Senate; new look for education committeesTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A white ex-police detective in Kansas died Monday in an apparent suicide just before the start of his criminal trial over allegations that he sexually assaulted Black women and terrorized those who tried fight back. Local police found Roger Golubski dead of a gunshot wound on the back porch of his split-level home outside Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said “there are no indications of foul play" in the 71-year-old's death, discovered Monday morning after a neighbor heard a gunshot. Fifty miles (80 kilometers) to the west, prosecutors and Golubski's attorneys were inside the federal courthouse in Topeka, where Golubski faced six felony counts of violating women's civil rights. Prosecutors say that, for years, Golubski preyed on female residents in poor neighborhoods, demanding sexual favors and sometimes threatening to harm or jail their relatives if they refused. He had pleaded not guilty. His death led U.S. District Judge Toby Crouse to dismiss the charges at prosecutors' request, though a second criminal case involving three other co-defendants remains. U.S. Department of Justice officials said it's “difficult” when a case cannot “be fully and fairly heard in a public trial,” but advocates for the women who accused Golubski of abusing them were angry, feeling that they and the community were denied a reckoning. “There is no justice for the victims,” said Anita Randle-Stanley, who went to court to watch jury selection. Randle-Stanley, who is not a victim in this case, said Golubski began harassing her when she was a teenager decades ago, but she always refused him. The heart of this trial focused on two women: one who said Golubski began sexually abusing her when she was a young teen in middle school, and another who said he began abusing her after her twin sons were arrested. Prosecutors said seven other women were planning to testify that Golubski abused or harassed them as well. And advocates for the women believe there are other victims who have either died or have been afraid to come forward. The allegations that Golubski preyed on women over decades with seeming impunity outraged the community and deepened its historical distrust of law enforcement. The prosecution followed earlier reports of similar abuse allegations across the country where hundreds of officers have lost their badges after allegations of sexual assaults. Some of the women and their advocates were upset that Golubski was under house arrest while he underwent kidney dialysis treatments three times a week. Cheryl Pilate, an attorney representing some of the women, said she has questions about how well the government was monitoring Golubski. “The community had an enormous interest in seeing this trial go forward,” she added. “Now, the victims, the community and justice itself have been cheated.” After Golubski failed to appear in court Monday, his lead attorney, Christopher Joseph, said his client “was despondent about the media coverage.” Joseph said he had talked to Golubski regularly, including Monday morning, and he was shocked to hear that his client had apparently killed himself. As for Golubski’s death, he said, “I don’t know the details.” This case against Golubski was part of a string of lawsuits and criminal allegations that led the county prosecutor’s office to begin a $1.7 million effort to reexamine cases Golubski worked on during his 35 years on the force. One double murder case Golubski investigated already has resulted in an exoneration , and an organization run by rapper Jay-Z is suing to obtain police records. Joseph had said lawsuits over the allegations were an “inspiration for fabrication” by his accusers. “We have to keep fighting,” said Starr Cooper, who was in the courthouse Monday to watch jury selection and said Golubski victimized her mother before her death in 1983. About 50 people had a short rally Monday morning in sub-freezing temperatures outside the federal courthouse in Topeka to show their support for the women accusing Golubski. They held signs with slogans such as, “Justice Now!” Lora McDonald, executive director of MORE2, a Kansas City-area social justice group, said participants learned that Golubski didn’t show up in court just as the rally began. They dispersed before prosecutors announced his death. They later joined Pilate in calling for an independent, outside investigation into Golubski's death. “Golubski terrorized an entire community and co-conspired with dangerous people,” McDonald said. “Our rally today was not just about Roger Golubski. Rather, it was about the department in which his criminal activity flourished." Pilate lamented that without a trial for Golubski, "In the eyes of the law he died an innocent man.” Max Seifert, a former Kansas City police officer who graduated from the police academy with Golubski in 1975, said Golubski's supporters will treat him as a martyred victim of unfair pretrial publicity. He contends the department condoned misconduct. “I feel that there is always going to be a cloud of mystery about this,” he added. Stories about Golubski remained just whispers in the neighborhoods near Kansas City’s former cattle stockyards partly because of the extreme poverty of a place where crime was abundant and some homes are boarded up. One neighborhood where Golubski worked is part of Kansas’ second-poorest zip code. Fellow officers once revered Golubski for his ability to clear cases, and he rose to the rank of captain in Kansas City before retiring there in 2010 and then working on a suburban police force for six more years. His former partner served a stint as police chief. The inquiry into Golubski stems from the case of Lamonte McIntyre, who started writing to McCloskey’s nonprofit nearly two decades ago. McIntyre was just 17 in 1994 when he was arrested and charged in connection with a double homicide, within hours of the crimes. He had an alibi; no physical evidence linked him to the killings; and an eyewitness believed the killer was an underling of a local drug dealer. In the other federal criminal case involving Golubski, that drug dealer also was charged with him, accused of running a violent sex trafficking operation. McIntyre's mother said in a 2014 affidavit that she wonders whether her refusal to grant regular sexual favors to Golubski prompted him to retaliate against her son. In 2022, the local government agreed to pay $12.5 million to McIntyre and his mother to settle a lawsuit after a deposition in which Golubski invoked his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent 555 times. The state also paid McIntyre $1.5 million. The last name of a woman who says the ex-detective harassed her for years has been corrected. She is Anita Randle-Stanley, not Randel-Stanley. Hollingsworth and Ingram reported from Edwardsville, Kansas.

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Key Tronic Corporation Announces New Credit FacilitiesHezbollah fired into a disputed border zone held by Israel on Monday. The militant group said the volley, its first during the truce, was a warning shot in response to what it called repeated Israeli truce violations . Israeli leaders threatened to retaliate and within hours, Israel’s military carried out its biggest wave of strikes in southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike on a village killed five people, while another airstrike killed four. Israeli strikes had already killed two people on Monday before the Hezbollah attack. Both sides accuse each other of violating the ceasefire, which began Wednesday. Israel says that under the truce deal it reserves the right to retaliate for Hezbollah violations. Hezbollah began launching its attacks on Israel last year in solidarity with Hamas militants who are fighting in the Gaza Strip. The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 people hostage . Israel’s blistering retaliatory offensive has killed at least 44,429 Palestinians , more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were combatants. Israel says it has killed over 17,000 militants, without providing evidence. The war in Gaza has destroyed vast areas of the coastal enclave and displaced 90% of the population of 2.3 million, often multiple times . WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders says Israel “is committing war crimes & ethnic cleansing in Gaza.” The Vermont lawmaker said he agreed with a former top Israeli general and defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, who accused the government of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza , where the army has sealed off the towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya and the Jabaliya refugee camp and allowed almost no humanitarian aid to enter. “You don’t fight terrorism by starving people & killing tens of thousands of civilians,” Sanders said Monday in a post on social media. Last month, the Senate rejected attempts by Sanders to block sales of offensive weapons to Israel over mounting civilian deaths in Gaza. WASHINGTON — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is demanding the immediate release of Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza, saying that if they are not freed before he is sworn into office for a second term there will be “HELL TO PAY.” “Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social site . He added that, “Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!” It was not immediately clear whether Trump was threatening to directly involve the U.S. military in Israel’s ongoing campaign against Hamas in Gaza. Trump allies have said he hopes there will be a ceasefire and hostage release deal before he returns to office early next year. The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 people hostage on Oct. 7, 2023. Some 100 are still held inside Gaza , around two-thirds believed to be alive. WASHINGTON — Senior American officials have had conversations with Israelis to raise questions about some of the strikes they have carried out against Hezbollah since a ceasefire went into place but have not found the Israelis to be in gross violation of the terms of the ceasefire, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter. The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly about the sensitive conversations with the Israelis, said those conversations were part of a mechanism that was created to ensure that ceasefire agreement is implemented. “This is that mechanism working,” the official added. White House national security spokesman John Kirby on Monday that “largely speaking the ceasefire is holding.” “We’ve gone from, you know dozens of strikes, you know, down to one a day maybe two a day,” Kirby told told reporters aboard Air Force One as President Joe Biden made his way for a visit to Angola. “That’s a tremendous, tremendous reduction. And we’re going to keep trying and see what we can do to get it down to zero so that both sides are fully implementing it. But, this is, this is the only it’s only a, a week or so old.” — By Aamer Madhani JERUSALEM — Hezbollah fired into a disputed border zone held by Israel on Monday, the militant group’s first attack since its ceasefire with Israel took hold last week, after Lebanon accused Israel of violating the truce more than 50 times in recent days. The Israeli military said two projectiles were launched toward Mount Dov, a disputed Israeli-held territory known as Shebaa Farms in Lebanon, where the borders of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel meet. Israel said the projectiles fell in open areas and no injuries were reported. Hezbollah said in a statement that it fired on an Israeli military position in the area as a “defensive and warning response” after what it called “repeated violations” of the ceasefire deal by Israel. It said complaints to mediators tasked with monitoring the ceasefire “were futile in stopping these violations.” The U.S.- and French-brokered ceasefire came into effect on Wednesday calling for a 60-day halt in fighting, aiming to end more than a year of exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel. Since then, Israel has carried out a number of strikes in Lebanon, most recently on Monday, when a drone strike killed a man on a motorcycle in southern Lebanon and another hit a Lebanese army bulldozer in the northeastern town of Hermel, wounding a soldier. The Lebanese army had stayed on the sidelines of the war between Israel and Hezbollah. Israel says the strikes are in response to Hezbollah violations of the ceasefire, without giving specifics. BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament speaker on Monday accused Israel of committing 54 breaches of the ceasefire that ended the war between Hezbollah and Israel, demanding urgent intervention to halt what he called “flagrant violations.” Speaking to the Lebanese newspaper Al Joumhouria, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri condemned Israel’s “aggressive actions,” including the alleged demolition of homes in border villages, the persistent overflight of Israeli reconnaissance drones, and airstrikes that have caused casualties. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Berri’s assertions. Israel says it reserves the right under the ceasefire deal to respond to perceived ceasefire violations. An Israeli drone strike on Monday hit a Lebanese army military bulldozer in the northeastern town of Hermel, wounding a soldier, the Lebanese army said in a statement. Also on Monday, an Israeli drone strike targeting a motorcycle in Jdeidet Marjayoun in southern Lebanon killed one person, the Lebanese Health Ministry said. In Bint Jbeil province, a drone strike injured one person, the state-run National News Agency said. On Saturday, two people were killed in an airstrike on Marjayoun province, Lebanon’s state media said. Berri called on the technical committee established to monitor the ceasefire to take immediate action, urging it to “oblige Israel to halt its violations and withdraw from Lebanese territories without delay.” He said that Lebanon and Hezbollah have fully adhered to the terms of the ceasefire since the early hours of Wednesday. Berri is the leader of the Shiite Amal movement, which is closely allied with the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. BEIRUT — Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said Monday one person was killed in an Israeli drone strike that hit a motorcycle, while the Lebanese army said that a soldier was wounded in an Israeli strike on a military bulldozer at an army base. The Israeli military said that it carried out a series of strikes in Lebanon on Sunday and Monday, including one in the same area where the soldier was said to have been wounded. It said it struck several military vehicles in Lebanon’s Bekaa province as well as strikes on Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. The incidents underscored the fragility of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah reached after nearly 14 months of cross-border fighting. Since the ceasefire went into effect on Wednesday, Israel has struck several times in response to what it says have been ceasefire violations by Hezbollah. Lebanon has accused Israel of violating the deal but so far Hezbollah has not resumed its rocket fire. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Monday rejected accusations that Israel is violating the tenuous ceasefire agreement, saying it was responding to Hezbollah violations. In a post on X, Saar said that he made that point in a call with his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot. France, along with the U.S., helped broker the deal and is part of an international monitoring committee meant to ensure the sides uphold their commitments. Israel says that it reserves the right under the deal to respond to perceived ceasefire violations. TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli military said Monday an Israeli American soldier who was believed to have been taken hostage alive on Oct. 7, 2023, is now presumed to have been killed during Hamas’ attack and his body taken into Gaza. Neutra, 21, was a New York native who enlisted in the Israeli military and was captured when Hamas attacked southern Israel. Neutra’s parents, Ronen and Orna, led a public campaign while he was thought to be alive for their son’s freedom. They spoke at protests in the U.S. and Israel, addressed the Republican National Convention this year and kept up ties with the Biden administration in their crusade to secure their son’s release. In a statement announcing the death, the military did not say how it came to the conclusion over Neutra’s fate. He was one of seven American Israelis still held in Gaza, four of whom are now said to be dead. Hamas released a video of one, Edan Alexander, over the weekend, indicating he was still alive. In late summer, Israel said Hamas killed Hersh Goldberg-Polin , another prominent Israeli American hostage, along with five other captives, whose bodies the Israeli military recovered. The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 hostage. Some 100 captives are still held inside Gaza , around two-thirds believed to be alive. Iraqi militias supported by Iran deployed in Syria on Monday to back the government’s counteroffensive against a surprise advance by insurgents who seized the largest city of Aleppo, a militia official and a war monitor said. Insurgents led by jihadi group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a two-pronged attack on Aleppo last week and the countryside around Idlib before moving toward neighboring Hama province. Government troops built a fortified defensive line in northern Hama in an attempt to stall the insurgents’ momentum while jets on Sunday pounded rebel-held lines. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus Sunday and announced Tehran’s full support for his government. He later arrived for talks in Ankara, Turkey, one of the rebels' main backers. Iran has been of Assad’s principal political and military supporters and deployed military advisers and forces after 2011 protests against Assad’s rule turned into an all-out war. Tehran-backed Iraqi militias already in Syria mobilized and additional forces crossed the border to support them, said the Iraqi militia official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. According to Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, some 200 Iraqi militiamen on pickups crossed into Syria overnight through the strategic Bou Kamal. They were expected to deploy in Aleppo to support the Syrian army’s pushback against the insurgents, the monitor said. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. Navy destroyers shot down seven missiles and drones fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels at the warships and three American merchant vessels they were escorting through the Gulf of Aden. No damage or injuries were reported. U.S. Central Command said late Sunday that the destroyers USS Stockdale and USS O’Kane shot down and destroyed three anti-ship ballistic missiles, three drones and one anti-ship cruise missile. The merchant ships were not identified. The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement and said they had targeted the U.S. destroyers and “three supply ships belonging to the American army in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden.” Houthi attacks for months have targeted shipping through a waterway where $1 trillion in goods pass annually over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and Israel’s ground offensive in Lebanon. A ceasefire was announced in Lebanon last week. The USS Stockdale was involved in a similar attack on Nov. 12 . Read more of the AP's coverage of the Middle East wars: https://apnews.com/hub/mideast-warsPresident-elect Trump backs union in US Gulf-East Coast ports labor dispute

"Drain the Swamp" is a catchy campaign slogan, but vague. Does it mean getting rid of civil servants (aka bureaucrats) in the original Medicare program, which costs taxpayers less than programs administered by insurance companies? Or folks checking meat and produce quality? Or those predicting hurricanes and tornados? Or IRS agents collecting back taxes from millionaires who neglected to file for years? Maybe OSHA folks ensuring compliance with worker protection laws? Or those investigating consumer fraud? Keeping track of terrorists? We are mostly unaware of the federal government’s multiple responsibilities, determined by laws passed by Congress, but it’s a worthwhile exercise to educate ourselves. (See Michael Lewis, “Who is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service”, March 2025.) Perhaps the term "swamp" is being directed at the wrong people. How about looking at politicians and political appointees who accept favors and massive campaign contributions from big companies and billionaires, who thereby 'purchase' special access to advance their interests? Barbara Hall Midtown Disclaimer: As submitted to the Arizona Daily Star. Follow these steps to easily submit a letter to the editor or guest opinion to the Arizona Daily Star. Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a guest opinion Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you connected to the community. Catch the latest in Opinion Get opinion pieces, letters and editorials sent directly to your inbox weekly!Share Tweet Share Share Email Alastair Parr is a key member of the founding team behind Mitratech’s Prevalent TPRM solution . With a deep background in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), Alastair has extensive experience in addressing the challenges of modern risk management. His role focuses on ensuring that Mitratech’s solutions evolve innovatively to meet market demands, particularly within the Prevalent platform and the broader Mitratech GRC ecosystem. Prior to joining Mitratech, Alastair served as an operations director at InteliSecure and worked as an auditor, further honing his expertise in building and implementing effective risk management strategies. In this interview with TechBullion, Alastair shares some insights into Mitratech’s latest advancements in AI and ESG capabilities, the impact of these innovations on third-party risk management, and the company’s vision for the future of GRC and risk technology. Alastair Parr Please tell us more about yourself and what you do at Mitratech. My name is Alastair Parr and I was part of the founding team that started what became Mitratech ’s Prevalent TPRM solution. I am responsible for ensuring that the demands of the market space are considered and applied innovatively within the Prevalent solution and our Mitratech GRC platform overall. With a background in governance, risk, and compliance, I have extensive experience developing and implementing solutions to meet the challenges of the increasingly complex risk management space. Previously, I served as an operations director for the global managed service provider InteliSecure and worked as an auditor. Mitratech has recently introduced AI and ESG enhancements to its recently acquired third-party risk management platform, Prevalent. Could you elaborate on how these capabilities differentiate Mitratech’s platform from others in the market? It’s important to note that the latest enhancements are exactly that – enhancements to existing capabilities. We have taken a long-term perspective on the TPRM market so as the market evolves we evolve with it. We first introduced our ESG capabilities in 2020. Since then, we have added deeper scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions tracking, overall ESG score enrichment, and ESG controversy tracking to our library of ESG questionnaires so that organizations can keep pace with the ever-changing ESG regulatory landscape. As supply chains grow and become more complex, it’s essential that organizations centrally track all of their supply chain risks – from cyber disruptions to operational, ESG, and reputational challenges. Our view is that our solution should become the single source of truth for all third-party vendor and supplier risks, which feeds into the overall GRC solution to manage enterprise risks. With AI, we have steadily expanded our AI capabilities from ML-based reporting to more sophisticated automations such as automatic assessment completion, document/evidence scanning for suitability, and including an AI risk advisor to help interpret risks and provide guidance on suggested remediations. The goal with our AI capabilities is to simplify the user’s experience, add consistency to assessments and analytics, and improve the visibility into risk advice. AI-driven risk assessments are becoming more common. Can you explain how Mitratech’s AI-powered automatic questionnaire completion works and the impact this will have on organizations trying to streamline their third-party risk assessments? Our AI auto assessment completion capability enables users to take a previously completed spreadsheet questionnaire or supporting PDF documentation, upload those artifacts, and have our AI automatically extract answers and relevant details to populate a new third-party risk assessment. This capability benefits responders who have multiple documents, such as internal policies and audit reports, which could satisfy question requirements but have no way to efficiently extract that information without hours of manual documentation review. Using document details to populate new risk assessments radically reduces the time required to manage the third-party risk assessment process. As ESG compliance gains momentum among regulators and investors, how does Mitratech’s new ESG monitoring feature assist companies in maintaining sustainability standards across their supply chains? Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, such as measuring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, have surely emerged as a key priority among companies, investors, and government regulators. Measuring GHG emissions involves focusing on direct emissions and extending attention to indirect emissions throughout the supply chain, where scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions come into play. As more governments legislate ESG and sustainability regulations, companies must sift through mountains of ESG reporting data to meet supply chain compliance requirements. The Prevalent solution includes new capabilities that enhance ESG and sustainability monitoring and correlate with the results of questionnaire-based ESG risk assessments to standardize and simplify global ESG compliance reporting across your supply chain. The latest release includes: Globally sourced, standards-based data from a recognized leader in ESG and sustainability reporting. Advanced sustainability ratings and scores, including scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and equivalent value in cash (EVIC) intensity, for each supplier to compare over time and against industry averages. Analyst-curated emissions scores, negative news and controversies to deliver visibility into potential reputational concerns. A comprehensive library of global sustainability questionnaires with built-in remediation guidance to benchmark reporting. A centralized risk register of assessment results and sustainability data for investigation, triage, and task and event management. By comprehensively understanding and managing Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, companies can mitigate supply chain and reputational risks, meet stakeholder expectations, improve operational efficiency, and gain a competitive edge. With the solution, procurement and supply chain teams can improve supply chain visibility and consistency and save time by providing one-stop access to thousands of ESG scores, intelligence, and controversies fully aligned with other enterprise risks. The introduction of Technology Tags is a notable addition to your platform. How does this new feature enhance visibility into software supply chain risks, and what kind of proactive measures can organizations take as a result? To assist in understanding which vendors have particular technologies deployed, the Prevalent TPRM solution now includes Technology tags, which provide access to publicly disclosed technologies that can be applied to all entities in the solution based on the technologies the entity uses. In the event of an incident, built-in ActiveRules automations can trigger actions based on Technology tags including: Reporting on impacted third parties. Informing internal users of the technology association by issuing email notifications. Triggering tasks. Distributing an incident response survey to a key contact to understand how they have been impacted, and what remediation efforts are taking place. Generating risk items for ongoing management. This enhancement is invaluable when news of a vulnerability or data breach impacts a specific technology and there is a need to quickly identify which organizations in a vendor ecosystem may be leveraging it. It improves proactivity through visibility and automation. With this capability, organizations can quickly identify and communicate with vendors potentially at risk of a software supply chain disruption, reducing risk and speeding up time to resolution. Given recent high-profile supply chain incidents like the July 2024 CrowdStrike outage, what lessons did Mitratech draw in developing these new risk management tools? The widespread July 2024 CrowdStrike outage was a wake-up call for organizations to better understand the technologies deployed in their vendor ecosystems. Knowing which third parties utilize a particular technology helps to speed up incident response in the case of a critical outage. And that starts with discovery – building a central inventory of the technologies that third parties utilize. The Prevalent solution already included the ability to track technologies, but the latest enhancement pre-loads options to add to the vendor profile to simplify tracking to speed up incident response. With AI transforming various industries, some organizations express concerns about its potential risks. How does Mitratech ensure that its AI-powered tools are transparent, ethical, and aligned with regulatory compliance? We have implemented several controls to mitigate the risks of bias, hallucination and to ensure security. The LLM that we have incorporated into our solution has been trained on events and leverages our 20 years of experience. There is human governance over the model to ensure that results are realistic and represent actual recommendations. We anonymized all data and only set the risk and/or event name – no other context. Sustainability and ESG have become critical metrics for evaluating vendor relationships. Can you share any insights into the specific ESG criteria that Mitratech’s platform uses to assess and score suppliers? The Prevalent solution provides insights into several ESG metrics. Globally sourced, standards-based data from a recognized leader in ESG and sustainability reporting. Advanced sustainability ratings and scores, including scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and equivalent value in cash (EVIC) intensity, for each supplier to compare over time and against industry averages. Analyst-curated emissions scores, negative news and controversies to deliver visibility into potential reputational concerns. Data is presented over time, and with it, users can compare suppliers against: Industry averages Their peers Other suppliers in the same region In light of these recent updates, how do you see the role of technology evolving in the context of third-party risk management, especially when it comes to adapting to emerging regulatory requirements? Technology and process automation should be at the center of third-party risk management. Two of the most significant challenges involved in assessing a third party are completing assessments and gathering external data to formulate a risk score which then informs how the third party should be treated going forward. TPRM solutions address both of those challenges directly by automating questionnaire management, completion, and scoring, and by centralizing external vendor insights across multiple risk domains. Technology then enables the correlation of the questionnaire responses to external data to validate answers, scoring, and automated remediation management and reporting. Without technology, organizations are left with manual, spreadsheet-driven processes or disjointed risk scoring that limits visibility. Looking ahead, what are the key areas of innovation that Mitratech is focusing on to continue leading in the GRC and third-party risk management space? Mitratech will continue to innovate in areas such as continuous monitoring enhancements, AI translation and automations, natural language reporting, as well as providing new insights into geographic and firmographic data and analytics. Related Items: AI , Alastair Parr , ESG , ESG Capabilities , Executive Director , featured , grc , GRC Solutions , interview , Mitratech , risk technology Share Tweet Share Share Email Recommended for you Financial Infrastructure & APIs: The Backbone of Modern Financial Systems Arcee AI and AWS: Accelerating Deployment of Specialized Language Models for Enterprises. What Is Voice AI? A Look at the Latest Tech Innovations CommentsThe last time the Denver Broncos made the playoffs was the end of the 2015 season. That was Peyton Manning’s last season, and the last time the Broncos had a viable quarterback. Bo Nix is helping end both of those droughts. Nix wasn’t perfect on Monday night but he was pretty good. For a national audience who might not have seen much of Nix this season, it might have been a revelation. The selection of Nix at 12th overall in the NFL Draft was criticized by some, but the Broncos have to feel great about it. Nix led a go-ahead drive in the fourth quarter after a feisty Cleveland Browns team took a fourth-quarter lead, and the Broncos improved to 8-5 with a after the defense finally got a stop in the final two minutes after giving up more than 500 yards. Ja'Quan McMillian picked off Jameis Winston on a leaping interception, got up and returned it 46 yards for a game-sealing score. Winston had 497 passing yards, 235 of which went to former Broncos receiver Jerry Jeudy (the most receiving yards in NFL history for a player against his former team, via ESPN), but Winston's two pick 6s were the difference in the game. Nix threw a couple interceptions, but also had 294 yards and a touchdown. And his team got a big win. The Broncos haven’t clinched a playoff spot, but it might be coming soon. Even bigger than that, the future looks bright because Denver has finally figured out its quarterback problem. Browns vs. Broncos wasn’t the type of Monday night matchup that was going to have everyone buzzing all afternoon. It turned out to be an entertaining game. The Browns (3-9) haven’t been able to get much going in the running game lately, so they had Winston air it out. He was well over 300 yards during the third quarter, with former Broncos receiver Jerry Jeudy passing 200 yards early in the fourth quarter. There was a sequence in which Marvin Mims Jr. got past the Browns' secondary deep down the middle and Nix hit him with a great pass for a 93-yard touchdown. Then, on the next offensive play, Jeudy beat the Broncos' secondary for a 70-yard score. NIX. MIMS. 93 YARDS TO THE CRIB. 📺: on ESPN 📱: Stream on — NFL (@NFL) Winston made big plays, but he’s always a threat to give some back. He did so in the second quarter, telegraphing a short pass that Broncos outside linebacker Nik Bonitto stepped in front of for an interception and returned it 71 yards for a touchdown. The Broncos were scoring easily, but the Browns wouldn’t go away easily, even if their playoff hopes realistically ended a few weeks ago. Nix made a mistake early in the fourth quarter. He threw deep but Mims was well covered and Browns cornerback Denzel Ward made a nice catch downfield for an interception. The Broncos led 31-25 but the door was open for the Browns to take back the lead. Jeudy made a couple more big plays, including a 17-yard catch on third-and-10. With 8:57 left, Winston hit Nick Chubb for a touchdown and the Browns led 32-31. Winston went over 400 yards on that drive, and it was his fourth touchdown pass. For the past eight seasons, the Broncos wouldn’t have had much chance at rallying after losing the lead. They rarely had a quarterback capable of leading a game-winning drive. Nix didn’t look nervous. He hit a couple of big third-down passes to get the Broncos downfield, showing off his arm strength on each of them. With less than three minutes left, the Broncos faced a fourth-and-1 well within field-goal range. Head coach Sean Payton looked like he was going for it, but then called timeout, changed his mind and Wil Lutz kicked a go-ahead field goal. The Broncos' defense had given up more than 500 yards at that point, but needed one stop to get a massive win. The possession started with a sack, but Winston rallied to hit Elijah Moore for a first down. The Broncos needed a big play, and McMillian got it. He got in front of a pass to Moore and ended up taking it in for a touchdown. Winston threw a third interception in the closing seconds of the game on a desperation drive. Despite all his passing yards, Winston's three interceptions were costly. That’s the story of his career. Jameis Winston set a career high and a new Browns record with 497 passing yards. Former Bronco Jerry Jeudy secured nine catches for 235 yards and a touchdown, setting a new NFL record for most receiving yards in a game against his former team. And it wasn't enough. Winston countered his big night with a pair of pick 6s that doomed the Browns in Denver in a 42-31 Broncos win. He capped the night with his third pick in the end zone, allowing the Broncos to take over in victory formation. It was the best of Jameis Winston and the worst of Jameis Winston all in one game. The win was aided by a 93-yard touchdown pass from Bo Nix, who overcame his own pair of interceptions to help lead Denver to victory. The Broncos improve to 8-5 and enter their bye week in firm control of their path to the playoffs. And there's Jameis Winston's third interception, a fitting cap to a wild Broncos win. Broncos get one more pick to ice it 😤 — NFL (@NFL) Jameis Winston has been brilliant tonight. Except for two throws. Winston just threw his second pick 6 of the night inside the two-minute warning. Ja'Quan McMillian jumped the route in the flat an intercepted the pass near midfield. He then took it to the house for a 46-yard interception return. Denver leads 41-32 inside the final 2 minutes, and the Browns need a miracle. PICK SIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 📺: ESPN — Denver Broncos (@Broncos) Jameis Winston took a sack on first down. But the Browns picked up 20 yards on two passes on second and third and have a first down at the Cleveland 42-yard line with 2 minutes remaining and a 34-32 deficit. A field goal would win it. Big sack to start the drive for Denver. 📺: on ESPN 📱: Stream on — NFL (@NFL) With a chip-shot field goal for the lead, Sean Payton sent out his offense on fourth-and-1. But he had second thoughts. The Broncos called timeout and sent kicker Wil Lutz back out for the 27-yard attempt. Lutz was good, and the Broncos have a 34-32 lead with 2:54 remaining. Can Jameis Winston and the Browns answer? The Browns are back on top. Cleveland marched 67 yards on eight plays after the Bo Nix interception to take a 32-31 lead on a five-yard touchdown pass from Jameis Winston to Nick Chubb. Jerry Jeudy caught two passes for 52 yards to set up the score. Winston's up to 446 yards with four touchdowns on the night. A strong Denver defense has had few answers for this passing attack. admin is freaking the f out rn! on ESPN and NFL+ — Cleveland Browns (@Browns) Jerry Jeudy's having a career night against his former team. A 35-yard catch on another big connection with Jameis Winston puts him at seven catches for 202 yards with a touchdown. Why isn't Patrick Surtain shadowing Jeudy? Denzel Ward forced the first Bo Nix interception of the night. He just hauled in Nix's second. Nix looked deep to Marvin Mims on the first play of a possession. Ward stayd with Mims stride-for-stride and came down the ball for an interception. Cleveland's back in business with a 28-25 deficit early in the fourth quarter. LOCK DOWN D on ESPN and NFL+ — Cleveland Browns (@Browns) The Broncos swarmed Jameis Winston for a sack on second down and a 14-yard loss. The Browns punt the ball back, and the Broncos have the ball and a 31-25 lead. The Browns just caught a big break. Right guard Wyatt Teller jumped early on a fourth-and-1 sneak by Jameis Winston, and the officials didn't catch it. Winston followed Teller and dove through the right side of the line for a first down. Jaleel McLaughlin ran five time for 43 yards to help get the Broncos into field-goal range. Denver opts for the kick instead of going for it on fourth-and-2. Wil Lutz is good from 36 yards to extend the Broncos lead to 31-25 late in the third quarter. Denver just went 3-and-out, and the Browns have the ball back with a 28-25 deficit midway through the third quarter. It took the Browns all of one play to answer Bo Nix's touchdown pass to Marvin Mims. And former Bronco Jerry Jeudy was on the receiving end of it. On the first play of the ensuing Browns possession, Jameis Winston looked deep to Jeudy on a go route down the middle. Jeudy broke free over the top of the Denver defense and hauled in the pass for a 70-yard touchdown catch to cut Denver's lead to 28-25. Jeudy's up to six catches for 167 yards and a touchdown. And we've got a shootout on our hands in Denver. JERRY JEUDY THE MAN YOU ARE on ESPN and NFL+ — Cleveland Browns (@Browns) Here's one for the rookie highlight reel. Facing third-and-11 against their own end zone, the Broncos looked primed for another punt. Bo Nix had other ideas. Nix found Marvin Mims streaking down the middle and hit him in stride over a pair of Browns defenders near midfield. 93 yards later, Mims was in the end zone for a 28-17 Broncos lead. What a throw from Nix, who's been one of the biggest surprises of the NFL season. 93 YARDS TO THE 🏡!!!!!!!!!! | 📺: ESPN — Denver Broncos (@Broncos) The Broncos forced the second Browns punt in two second-half possessions and have the ball back at their own 8-yard line after a punt. Denver leads, 21-17 early in the third quarter. The Broncos had second down and less than a yard to go and ended up punting. Jaleel McLaughlin lost a yard on second down, and Bo Nix's third-down pass to Devaughn Vele was broken up by Greg Newsome. Broncos punt, leading 21-17. Nix is 9 of 19 for 110 yards against a Browns defense that's not giving him easy looks. Cleveland's opening drive stopped short of the 50-yard line, and the Broncos have the ball inside their own 20 after a punt. The second half is underway. The Browns have the ball first after a touchback on the second-half kickoff. Denver's vaunted defense largely struggled against the Browns before halftime, but made up for it in part with a pick 6 of Jameis Winston. The Broncos offense, meanwhile, has scored two touchdowns behind Bo Nix, but failed to move the ball on its other four possessions. 9 of 18 for 110 yards, zero touchdowns, 1 interception 18 of 31 for 245 yards, 2 touchdowns, 1 interception (pick 6) 5 carries for 20 yards Each with a 1-yard TD run 6 carries for 39 yards 6 carries for 11 yards 3 catches for 43 yards 5 catches for 97 yards 5 catches for 32 yards, 2 touchdowns 141 yards 298 yards 1 1 (pick 6) The Broncos knelt with 13 seconds remaining in the second quarter and enter halftime with a 21-17 lead. The Browns will have the ball first in the third quarter.

Biden's broken promise on pardoning his son Hunter is raising new questions about his legacy WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s decision to go back on his word and pardon his son Hunter wasn't all that surprising to those who are familiar with the president's devotion to his family. But by choosing to put his family first, the 82-year-old president has raised new questions about his legacy. Biden has held himself up as placing his respect for the American judicial system and rule of law over his own personal concerns. It was part of an effort to draw a deliberate contrast with Republican Donald Trump. Now, both his broken promise and his act of clemency are a political lightning rod. 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The strikes came after the Lebanese militant group fired a volley of projectiles earlier on Monday as a warning over what it said were Israeli truce violations. This was apparently the first time Hezbollah took aim at Israeli forces after the 60-day ceasefire went into effect last week. The increasingly fragile ceasefire aims to end more than a year of war between Hezbollah and Israel — part of a wider regional conflict sparked by the devastating Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Key players in Syria's long-running civil war, reignited by a shock rebel offensive BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s long civil war has reclaimed global attention after insurgents seized most of its largest city and dozens of nearby towns and villages. The stunning advance on Aleppo by rebel forces came as several key players in the conflict have been distracted or weakened. That triggered the heaviest clashes since a 2020 ceasefire brought relative calm to the country’s north. Russian and Syrian forces have carried out dozens of airstrikes to try to limit the insurgents’ advances, inflicting heavy casualties. Syria’s civil war started in 2011 after an uprising against President Bashar Assad’s rule. Delaware judge reaffirms ruling that invalidated massive Tesla pay package for Elon Musk DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has reaffirmed her ruling that Tesla must revoke Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar pay package. The judge on Monday also rejected an equally unprecedented and massive fee request by plaintiff attorneys. The rulings came in a lawsuit filed by a Tesla stockholder who challenged Musk’s 2018 compensation package that carried a potential value of $56 billion. The judge ruled in January that Musk engineered the landmark pay package in sham negotiations with directors who were not independent. Tesla shareholders then voted for a second time to ratify Musk’s 2018 pay package, but the judge refused to revisit her initial ruling. Woman driving drunk who killed bride still in her wedding dress sentenced to 25 years in prison A woman who admitted to drinking and who was driving well over twice the speed limit when she smashed into a golf cart killing a bride who had just got married at a South Carolina beach has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Jamie Lee Komoroski pleaded guilty Monday to reckless homicide and three felony driving under the influence charges. Police said the 27-year-old drank at several bars on April 28, 2023, and was driving 65 mph on a narrow Folly Beach road when she slammed into a golf cart leaving a wedding. The bride, 34-year-old Samantha Miller, died still wearing her wedding dress. What is 'lake-effect snow'? Warm air from large bodies of water is the key ingredient The lake-effect snow that has fallen in parts of upstate New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan is the result of cold, moist air that blew over the Great Lakes region. A meteorologist with the National Weather Service says the warmer temperature of the water sends the moisture into an atmospheric layer conducive to snow. Then clouds form and snow falls downwind from the lakes. Over the weekend, parts of upstate New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan saw nearly 4 feet of lake-effect snow. The weather service says forecasting lake-effect snow can be difficult. The storms typically form in thin bands, meaning slight wind shifts can easily change which areas see heavy snow. Florida woman sentenced to life for zipping boyfriend into suitcase, suffocating him A 47-year-oldFlorida woman has been sentenced to life in prison for zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase and leaving him to die of suffocation amid a history of domestic and alcohol abuse. Circuit Judge Michael Kraynick imposed the sentence Monday in Orlando on Sarah Boone for the 2020 killing of 42-year-old Jorge Torres. A jury deliberated only 90 minutes Oct. 25 before convicting Boone of the second-degree murder of Jorge Torres after a 10-day trial. Boone had insisted she was herself a victim of domestic violence at the hands of Torres and had pleaded not guilty. Cyber Monday shoppers expected to set a record on the year's biggest day for online shopping Consumers in the U.S. are scouring the internet for online deals as they look to make the most of the post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon on Cyber Monday. The National Retail Federation coined the term for the Monday after Black Friday in 2005. Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of many people’s regular routine, Cyber Monday continues to be the biggest online shopping day of the year, thanks to steady discounts and a fair amount of hype. Several major retails actually started their Cyber Monday promotions over the weekend. 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I'm A Celebrity fans think they have spotted a savage dig at ex campmate Dean McCullough. GK Barry appeared to make a swipe at her former co-star following his departure from the show. Dean became the second celebrity to be eliminated from the series after taking on the highest number of Bushtucker trials during his time on the programme. The BBC Radio 1 presenter racked up a reputation for struggling during the trials, leaving his campmates hungry. Dean even called out the famous line - I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here - stopping his trials. He admitted to having many fears that he claimed prevented him from getting stars for camp. During one trial he quit, Dean confessed to feeling claustrophobic as he stood in a box that filled with sand. In an apparent dig at Dean's woes GK Barry referenced his fear when taking part in a trial on Thursday night. After getting in position for the start of the trial, GK said sarcastically with her head in a bubble: “At least it’s not claustrophobic!” Viewers noticed the quip as one said: "‘At least it’s not claustrophobic’ Are we still throwing shade at Dean." Another added: "GK mentioning it not being “claustrophobic”." Someone else commented: "GK doesn't half crack me up! "At least it's not claustrophobic"". A fourth wrote: "‘Well at least it’s not claustrophobic” #ImACeleb." This week, Oti Mabuse took on a Bushtucker trial her former campmate Dean quit. Oti did much better than Dean in The Sinister Sarcophagus: The Mummy where her head sat in a box that filled with creepy crawlies while her body stood in a separate tank that filled with sand. The former Strictly Come Dancing star had to answer trivial questions correctly in order to secure stars. Dean dramatically quit the trial when he gave it a go. The radio host commented it was his "worst nightmare" having previously stated he wouldn't want to be buried or put in a coffin. Dean was soon locked in and joined by sand, giant mealworms and crickets. He got off to a good start and answered two questions correctly, before managing to secure two stars. But it all got too much for him and he soon screamed the famous line: "I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!". With that the trial was over and Dean was removed from the figurine, with Ant and Dec confirming he had won just two stars for camp meaning a rationed meal. After pulling out of the trial, Ant said that he was disappointed in Dean given that it was one of the easiest I'm A Celebrity trials ever. Speaking on I'm A Celebrity Unpacked, Dec explained: “We are genuinely disappointed because you are prepared to do the whole trial and you want to see the whole thing. There’s a lot of time gone into the trials so when it’s called early your like, ‘oh'. “That’s why we continued to ask him some questions after because we were really enjoying it," Ant added. When asked if the crew were let down by Dean pulling out of the trail so early, Ant admitted: "They just want to see it done properly. Even in the past when we’ve had people not go through with it we’ve sometime bought the trials back because we want them to be seen.” Follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok , Snapchat , Instagram , Twitter , Facebook , YouTube and Threads .

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GitLab Inc. GTLB reported its third-quarter results after Thursday's closing bell. Here's a look at the key figures from the quarter. The Details: GitLab reported quarterly earnings of 23 cents per share, which beat the analyst consensus estimate of 16 cents. Quarterly revenue came in at $196 million, which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $187.93 million and is an increase over sales of $149.67 million from the same period last year. Customers with more than $5,000 of ARR reached 9,519, an increase of 16% year-over-year. Customers with more than $100,000 of ARR reached 1,144, an increase of 31% year-over-year. Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate was 124%. Total RPO grew 48% year-over-year to $811.8 million, while cRPO grew 39% to $515.2 million. GitLab also announced Bill Staples was named CEO and a member of the board of directors effective immediately. Staples succeeds co-founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij , who is stepping down from his day-to-day role to focus on his health. Sijbrandij will transition to executive chair of the GitLab board of directors. Read Next: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Fatally Shot Outside NYC Hotel “GitLab’s growth at scale is a testament to the demand for a platform approach to software development,” said Sid Sijbrandij , co-founder and executive chair of the board of directors. “Our end-to-end DevSecOps platform addresses our customers’ need to accelerate the pace of software development to remain competitive, innovate faster, and ship software more securely,” Sijbrandij added. Outlook: GitLab sees fourth-quarter revenue in a range of $205 million to $206 million, versus the $204.36 million estimate and adjusted earnings of between 22 cents and 23 cents per share, versus the 14-cent estimate. GTLB Price Action: According to Benzinga Pro , GitLab shares are up 7.54% after-hours at $71.02 at the time of publication Thursday. Read More: Art Cashin’s Lessons: Cuban Crisis Trades To Timeless Wall Street Wit Photo: Shutterstock © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.