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When the C.E.O. Retires but Won’t Go Away

Target is the latest company to keep a replaced chief executive around as an “executive chairman.” Does having two top dogs make sense?

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Brian Cornell will step down as Target’s chief executive in February.
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Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Top Adams Adviser, Faces Fresh Corruption Charges

Ms. Lewis-Martin, the former chief adviser to Mayor Eric Adams, is accused of taking bribes in exchange for favorable treatment, including speeding city permits for a karaoke bar and residential renovations.

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Ingrid Lewis-Martin, who was first indicted last year, has now been accused of accepting more than $75,000 in bribes.
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Immigrant Population in U.S. Drops for the First Time in Decades

An analysis of census data by the Pew Research Center found that between January and June, the foreign-born population declined by nearly 1.5 million.

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Aggressive enforcement has created a climate of fear in immigrant communities across the country.
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Suspect Is Arrested in Sabotage of Pipelines Between Russia and Germany

German authorities said a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022 had been taken into custody by the Italian police.

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A photo released by Danish authorities showed bubbles pooling on the Baltic Sea after the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was severed in 2022.
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Heart of the Menendez Case: Who Deserves a Second Chance?

Media attention has brought the Menendez brothers to the cusp of early release from prison. Criminal justice reform proponents hope other prisoners benefit.

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Lyle Menendez, second from left, and his brother, Erik, second from right, flanked by defense lawyers in court in 1990.
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Newsom’s redistricting ruse is sinking | Red Hot Takes

California Gov. Gavin Newsom pretends his blatant gerrymandering scheme is a battle for democracy, but he’s spitting on the will of Golden State voters — merely to boost his bid to become Democrats’ 2028 nominee. Falling in line with Newsom’s demand to gerrymander Cali’s House districts in retaliation for Texas’ own redistricting, state lawmakers unveiled...

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John and Paul by Ian Leslie audiobook review – the bromance behind the band

Actor Chris Addison narrates a deep dive into the creative partnership of Lennon and McCartney

Another book on the Beatles? It’s hard to imagine a writer shedding new light on the band given the mountain of literature already in existence. But there is a freshness of perspective in Ian Leslie’s book, which tells of Lennon and McCartney’s unique alchemy through the songs they wrote together. Leslie’s background in psychology serves him well in a study that jettisons the usual narrative of male rivalry; their partnership, Leslie suggests, was closer to a marriage.

He begins with the pair’s early songwriting sessions, usually in McCartney’s front room, where rather than each taking ownership of songs, they worked in sync. Other fabled musical partnerships such as Leiber and Stoller, or Rodgers and Hammerstein, divided the labour between lyrics and melody, but Lennon and McCartney worked together on both. Pointing to their profound connection, Leslie notes how in the song If I Fell they performed “an intricate courtship dance, moving apart and close again as the song unfolds, like birds weaving in and out of each other’s flight path, alternately shielding and leading the other”.

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