This was perhaps the greatest bifurcation of the labor force seen since the days of land barons.
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Joe McKendrick,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
Lipstye and others worried that Shelter Island was becoming a place dominated by wealthy barons who weren’t necessarily invested in the community — a place, in short, like the South Fork.
In May, a former federal agent was arrested and charged with multiple counts of assault and falsely reporting a crime after making false statements under oath regarding the nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis in January.
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Karina Tsui,
CNN Money,
8 July 2026
The Ventura County district attoney’s office brought eight total counts against the minor, a male Ventura resident who was not identified due to his age.
These two masters of image management provided colliding—utopian versus dystopian—scenes at contrasting Fourth of July weekend mega events.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
8 July 2026
At the time, Taylor was in the process of re-recording her first six albums after not being given the chance to buy back her masters, but has since secured complete ownership of her discography.
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